If you read our last set of bold predictions ahead of Friday’s women’s Final Four, you’ll notice at no point did we guess that UConn coach Geno Auriemma would confront South Carolina coach Dawn Staley postgame.
Yes, March Madness has a way of surprising. The Gamecocks’ clinical 62–48 victory over the Huskies was a legitimate stunner, as was UCLA’s ugly 51–44 win over Texas from an aesthetics standpoint. That leaves two teams to battle for all the marbles on Easter Sunday in Phoenix: a South Carolina program that has won two of the last four national championships, and a Bruins team that hadn’t made a Final Four until last year.
