We’ve shared our NCAA Women’s basketball wishes for 2024. But before the year officially turns over, let’s revisit the best college basketball moments from a monumental 2023.
Celebrating conference champs
First, it’s our “prerogative to have a little fun” and look back at last March’s conference tournaments, beginning with No. 7-seed Washington State’s run to the Pac-12 Tournament championship—all to the tune of Shaina Twain.
In the Big Ten, the Iowa Hawkeyes and Caitlin Clark presaged their run to the national championship game with a conference tournament title. Their in-state counterparts in the Big 12—Iowa State—also claimed conference tournament hardware behind the brilliance of Ashley Joens.
Down South, South Carolina looked like the SEC team most likely to win a national championship, cruising to the program’s seventh SEC Tournament championship. In the ACC, Virginia Tech showed their readiness for the Big Dance, claiming their first conference tournament title.
Up in the Big East, a familiar script played out. Despite an injury-plagued season, UConn added another conference tournament trophy.
Memorable March Madness
Before the LSU’s national championship game victory over Iowa gave us the signature women’s college basketball moments of 2023, from record-breaking interest to unnecessary “controversy,” the NCAA Tournament offered an excess of excitement, starting on Selection Sunday, when Stanford, not eventual national runners-up Iowa, received the final No. 1 seed.
Before the tourney tipped, it was easy to imagine one of the four No. 1 seeds—South Carolina, Indiana, Virginia Tech and aforementioned Stanford—winning it all.
However, the inevitably of upsets required a reassessments of the surviving teams’ standing before the Sweet Sixteen, as well as a wider evaluation of the success, or lack thereof, of Power 5 teams.
Eventually, the field was narrowed to…
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