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Autumn Johnson | February 4, 2025

February's first March Madness women's bracket predictions for 2025

First March Madness women's bracket predictions of February

Another week of women's hoops means another step closer to Selection Sunday and March Madness. 

Autumn Johnson revealed her third bracket predictions of the year with UCLA, South Carolina, Notre Dame and Southern California as the No. 1 seeds. The undefeated Bruins are the overall top seed.

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2025 March Madness women's bracket predictions

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SEED Spokane 1 Birmingham 2 Spokane 4 Birmingham 3
1 UCLA South Carolina Southern California Notre Dame
16 Longwood/Eastern Illinois Fairleigh Dickinson/Texas Southern Wofford North Carolina A&T
         
8 Oregon Creighton South Dakota State Mississippi State
9 Richmond Louisville Michigan Illinois
         
5 Georgia Tech Michigan State Ole Miss Maryland
12 Middle Tennessee Florida Gulf Coast UNLV Belmont
         
4 Oklahoma North Carolina Duke Tennessee
13 Montana State Fairfield Hawaii James Madison
         
6 West Virginia Vanderbilt Cal Alabama
11 Harvard/Stanford Iowa State/Virginia Tech Iowa UTSA
         
3 Kentucky Kansas State TCU NC State
14 Grand Canyon Norfolk State Gonzaga Ball State
         
7 Florida State Baylor Utah Oklahoma State
10 Minnesota Columbia Nebraska Indiana
         
2 LSU Ohio State Texas UConn
15 UAlbany Southeastern Louisiana Purdue Fort Wayne Lehigh

Last Four in: Virginia Tech, Harvard, Stanford, Iowa State

First Four out: Washington, Florida, Arizona, Colorado

📊 POWER RANKINGS: UConn, Texas rise in latest women's basketball Power 10 rankings

Conferences with multiple teams in the bracket

CONFERENCE TOTAL TEAMS TEAMS
Big Ten 12 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oregon, Southern California, UCLA
SEC 10 Alabama, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vanderbilt
ACC 10 California, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Stanford, Virginia Tech
Big 12 7 Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Utah, West Virginia
Big East 2 Creighton, UConn
Ivy 2 Columbia, Harvard

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Autumn Johnson's automatic qualifiers

AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS Teams
America East UAlbany
American Athletic UTSA
Atlantic 10 Richmond
ACC Notre Dame
ASUN Florida Gulf Coast
Big 12 TCU
Big East UConn
Big Sky Montana State
Big South Longwood
Big Ten UCLA
Big West Hawaii
CAA North Carolina A&T
Conference USA Middle Tennessee
Horizon Purdue Fort Wayne
Ivy Columbia
MAAC Fairfield
MAC Ball State
MEAC Norfolk State
Missouri Valley Belmont
Mountain West UNLV
Northeast Fairleigh Dickinson
Ohio Valley Eastern Illinois
Patriot Lehigh
SEC South Carolina
Southern Wofford
Southland Southeastern Louisiana
SWAC Texas Southern
Summit League South Dakota State
Sun Belt James Madison
WCC Gonzaga
WAC Grand Canyon
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