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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Gabriel Baumgaertner, Bryan Armen Graham and Nicholas Levine

NCAA basketball 2023-24 predictions: can UConn and LSU go back-to-back?

Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark helped the surge in popularity around women’s basketball last season
Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark helped the surge in popularity around women’s basketball last season. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP

What are you most looking forward to, on or off the court?

Who’s next in women’s hoops. Last year’s national title game between LSU and Iowa was watched by a record 9.9m people, another sign for the surging popularity of women’s basketball. The social media era has helped popularize talents like LSU’s Angel Reese and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, whose play would have never made it into nightly highlight packages of years past. This increased visibility has grown several bonafide stars like Breanna Stewart, A’Ja Wilson, Kelsey Plum and Sabrina Ionescu over the past decade. I’m just looking forward to who is next. GB

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