It’s the Oklahoma Sooners vs South Carolina Gamecocks in the March Madness bracket. Here’s our prediction for the 2026 Women's NCAA Tournament basketball game.

The NCAA has detailed guidelines that cover every aspect of its annual basketball tournaments. Among them is a mandate that players must be called “student-athletes.” The term sometimes feels laughably disingenuous when applied to one-and-done men’s basketball players.

Joyce Edwards had 27 points and eight rebounds and No. 1 seed South Carolina won its 17th straight home women’s NCAA Tournament game with a 103-34 defeat of 16th-seeded Southern.

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South Carolina advanced to its 12th consecutive Sweet 16 with two dominant wins last weekend. Here are the clutch players, burning questions, and a favorite play after the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.

No. 1 seed South Carolina advanced to a Sweet 16 matchup against No. 4 Oklahoma by easily dispatching No. 9 seed USC, 101-61, in a Round 2 matchup at Colonial Life Arena on Monday. Sophomore forward Joyce Edwards led the Gamecocks with 23 points and 10 rebounds.

Now that we have a few days to take our breath and reset our focus, it's time turn our attention to how the remaining teams stack up against each other heading into the Sweet 16. The NCAA Tournament selection committee put together its ranking of teams when the bracket was announced,