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Women’s basketball bracketology: The problem with sending Notre Dame to Chicago

By Russell Steinberg

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Connecticut’s Christyn Williams (13) drives baseline past Cincinnati’s Antoinette Miller (12) at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. UConn won, 65-55. (Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/TNS via Getty Images)
Connecticut’s Christyn Williams (13) drives baseline past Cincinnati’s Antoinette Miller (12) at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. UConn won, 65-55. (Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/TNS via Getty Images) /

Storrs:

1. Connecticut (AAC)
16. Robert Morris (NEC)

8. DePaul
9. North Carolina

Ames:

5. Arizona State
12. Purdue

4. Iowa State
13. Wright State (Horizon)

UConn isn’t going to lose again before the NCAA Tournament. You could run 1,000 simulations of the Huskies’ remaining regular season and conference tournament games and it would only happen in the one where the Monstars steal their talent. Does that mean UConn should be a lock for a 1 seed? I’m waffling. Avoiding losses has to count for something, and UConn has yet to fall to a team not in the top 5 in the RPI and not on the road. The question is whether Notre Dame can accumulate enough quadrant 1 wins to counteract two sub-15 losses and a loss to the Huskies. If they win at Syracuse and roll through the ACC Tournament…it’s going to be a tough call.

College Park:

6. Texas A&M
11. James Madison (CAA)

3. Maryland (Big Ten)
14. Maine (America East)

South Bend:

7. Utah
10. Ohio

2. Notre Dame (ACC)
15. Mercer (Southern)

Hey, let’s give a quick tip of the hat to James Madison. Sean O’Regan’s group has won 14 out of its last 15 and is 36th in the RPI. The world needs to see Kamiah Smalls get buckets in the NCAA Tournament, and after two years of settling for the WNIT, this is the year it happens.

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