And then there were four—a very familiar four.
In the history of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, there had been just one repeat women’s Final Four—1996, when Georgia, Stanford, Tennessee and UConn all made it back after qualifying in ‘95 (The Huskies won the former, the Volunteers the latter). In 2026, however, here South Carolina, Texas, UCLA and UConn all are again. All are No. 1 seeds, which was not true a year ago. And all have a non-zero chance of taking home the sport’s biggest prize.
