2025-26 Women's Tournament Bracketology

[jessej]

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

11 Seed - URI - AQ
10 Seed - Richmond - at large

We got work to do

 

[psyclone]

A10 talk rankings.

Although 6th in this, the team is 4th in the NET.

Week 7 A-10 Women’s Basketball Power Rankings

Non-conference play is nearly in the rear-view, and conference play is just on the horizon! Rhode Island continues to hold the fort atop the rankings after completing their best non-conference run in program history! Richmond is close behind picking up another first place vote this week...

www.a10talk.com

 

[Pablo]

Interestingly, the Summit League currently has more projected teams in the tournament than the A-10: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/s...ogy-2026-women-college-basketball-projections

Summit League:
#11 seed North Dakota State (aq)
#11 seed South Dakota State

A-10:
#10 seed Richmond (aq)

 

[GMUgemini]

Interestingly, the Summit League currently has more projected teams in the tournament than the A-10: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/s...ogy-2026-women-college-basketball-projections

Summit League:
#11 seed North Dakota State (aq)
#11 seed South Dakota State

A-10:
#10 seed Richmond (aq)

Weird. SD State has the same NET as URI but is 0-3 against Q1 whereas Rhody is 1-0. Rhody also only has 1 loss and SD State has 4.

I have a feeling this will change since the the A10 has 6 teams in the top 74 in NET right now and the Summit really only has those teams in the top 100.

 

[jessej]

1/6 update

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

Rhode Island as the AQ
Richmond - #72 - last of the last 4 out

 

[TweederGMU]

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

 

[jessej]

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

URI - AQ - 11 Seed
Richmond - #3 of the first 4 out
GMU has work to do - starting with wins over Richmond and URI

 

[psyclone]

NET rankings:

41 Richmond
49 URI
66 Mason
69 Davidson
87 St Joe's

 

[jessej]

Net Rankings as of Feb 8

DI Women's Basketball Rankings - NCAA Women's Basketball NET Rankings | NCAA.com

Get NCAA women's college basketball rankings from the Associated Press, USA Today/WBCA and NCAA committee.

www.ncaa.com

41	Richmond	20-4	Atlantic 10	7-2	3-1	10-1	0-0	41	0-2	1-2	4-0	15-0
47	Rhode Island	20-2	Atlantic 10	10-1	0-0	10-1	1-0	49	1-0	1-1	3-0	15-1
66	George Mason	15-7	Atlantic 10	6-3	0-2	9-2	0-0	66	0-3	2-1	2-1	11-2
69	Davidson	16-10	Atlantic 10	5-6	0-2	11-2	0-0	69	0-4	0-2	2-2	14-2
88	Saint Joseph's	13-8	Atlantic 10	6-4	0-0	7-4	2-0	87	0-1	1-3	1-1	11-3
162	George Washington	12-12	Atlantic 10	3-7	1-1	8-4	1-0	162	0-0	0-3	0-2	12-7
183	La Salle	12-11	Atlantic 10	7-4	0-1	5-6	1-0	184	0-0	0-3	0-3	12-5
185	Dayton	13-11	Atlantic 10	6-5	1-1	6-5	0-0	186	0-0	1-4	1-0	11-7
189	Loyola Chicago	12-11	Atlantic 10	7-4	0-0	5-7	0-0	190	0-2	0-2	1-1	11-6
196	vcu	8-16	Atlantic 10	1-7	0-6	7-3	0-0	198	0-2	0-6	0-4	8-4
212	Saint Louis	10-15	Atlantic 10	4-7	1-1	5-7	1-0	208	0-0	0-3	0-3	10-9
217	St. Bonaventure	13-11	Atlantic 10	5-7	2-0	6-4	1-0	217	0-0	0-2	2-1	11-8
251	Fordham	8-15	Atlantic 10	2-8	0-0	6-7	1-0	251	0-1	0-4	0-1	8-9
259	Duquesne	5-16	Atlantic 10	2-9	0-1	3-6	2-0	259	0-1	0-2	1-1	4-12

 

[jessej]

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

2/10 Creme Update

Rhode Island - 11 Seed

GMU changes this math with 3 wins in a row

 

[jessej]

Creme Update 2/20

URI = AQ & a #10 seed

Richmond - last of the first four out

I suspect that we need to win out the regular season and get to the A-10 finals to overcome the Richmond "effect"

 

[psyclone]

Creme Update 2/20

URI = AQ & a #10 seed

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Richmond - last of the first four out
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I suspect that we need to win out the regular season and get to the A-10 finals to overcome the Richmond "effect"

I tend to agree. Richmond seems almost immune to much in the way of downward NET movement. I could see that they wouldn't drop much after losing to us, but I thought the GW loss would have had more of an impact.

 

[DRK331]

 

[Pablo]

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

BATON ROUGE

7 Notre Dame
10 Rhode Island

2 LSU
15 E Kentucky

FIRST FOUR OUT​

Teams ranked 69-72 that missed the cut

• Arizona St
• Utah
• Kansas
• Richmond

 

[psyclone]

Previously posted on Men's board but it may be even more relevant here:

George Mason’s Marvin Lewis serves on NCAA Women’s Basketball Committee as March Madness nears

Marvin Lewis, George Mason University’s assistant vice president and director of Intercollegiate Athletics, is now in his inaugural season among those charged with making it happen for those lucky few as part of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee.

www.gmu.edu

Hmm....brings back memories of when Tom O'Connor was on the men's selection committee when Mason got an at-large bid that led to our Final Four run!

 

[psyclone]

Women's Bracketology: No. 1 seeds set, but bubble is toughest in years

Texas and South Carolina are locks for 1-seeds. TCU replaces Michigan as the final 2-seed. The bubble? Wide open.

www.espn.com

BATON ROUGE

7 Notre Dame
10 Rhode Island

2 LSU
15 E Kentucky

FIRST FOUR OUT​

Teams ranked 69-72 that missed the cut

• Arizona St
• Utah
• Kansas
• Richmond

latest bracketology has Richmond as the last team IN. Has them as an #11 playing in a first four game.

Rhode Island is also an #11

Women's Bracketology: How the committee's top-16 reveal rippled through the field

Saturday, the committee revealed the top-16 teams that will host early round games. North Carolina moved in.

www.espn.com

 

[jessej]

i am pi**ed that Richmond made the NCAA Tourney, and GMU did not despite
1) winning 2 of 3 in head-to-head
2) finishing ahead of them in both regular season and the A-10 Tourney

 

[Verdad]

Richmond had a better, and deserving, resume, Im glad they made it. Similar to when our men got in over Hofstra in 2006.

 

[psyclone]

Richmond as an #11 plays in the First 4 vs Nebraska in Durham, NC. Would play winner of Duke vs Charleston.

URI, also an #11, plalys against Alabama in Louisville. Would play winner of Louisville vs Vermont winner.

 

[GMUgemini]

Richmond had a better, and deserving, resume, Im glad they made it. Similar to when our men got in over Hofstra in 2006.

Hofstra probably deserved to be in rather than left out that year (CAA deserved 3 bids). They finished with a better RPi than Kansas, GW, Marquette, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan (most of whose got at-large bids). Hell Kentucky’s RPI was one better than Hofstra’s and Kentucky had an 8 seed in the NCAA and Hofstra was a damn 3 seed in the NIT

Edit: I think the women lost too many close games in the OOC to be considered. Had they beaten Temple, Liberty, and Princeton (2 OT and one epic collapse) they are probably dancing.