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Finding a rare Cinderella team in the 2025 Women's NCAA Tournament bracket can give you a massive edge over friends and family in 2025 Women's NCAA Tournament picks. Are there any first-round women's March Madness upset picks worth targeting? As for the 2025 Women's NCAA bracket favorites, No. 2 seed TCU is hoping to make a deep run behind Big 12 Player of the Year Hailey Van Lith, who has played in 17 NCAA Tournament games. She is averaging 17.9 points and 5.3 assists this season, but how far can she lead the Horned Frogs in the Women's March Madness bracket? Before making any 2025 March Madness bracket predictions, be sure to check out the 2025 NCAA Women's Tournament bracket picks from experts Calvin Wetzel and Aaron Barzilai.

Barzilai is a Ph.D. from Stanford who served as Director of Basketball Analytics for the Philadelphia 76ers that founded HerHoopStats.com, where Wetzel uses his mathematical background and strong knowledge of women's hoops to turn the site's prediction model into picks. Barzilai and Wetzel went 543-383 overall (+122.89 units) during the 2023-24 women's college basketball campaign and posted a 125-71-1 record (+44.33 units) so far in 24-25. Barzilai also nailed last year's win by Iowa over UConn and called three Final Four teams

There's simply no reason to rely on luck when these proven experts can help you dominate your 2025 March Madness pools. Now, with the 2025 NCAA Women's bracket revealed, the experts have revealed their picks for every game. You can only see them all over at SportsLine.

2025 NCAA Women's bracket teams to watch

One of the 2025 March Madness teams to keep an eye on in the women's bracket: JuJu Watkins and the USC Trojans, who earned the No. 1 seed in the Spokane 4 region. USC women's basketball has an incredibly proud history, winning national titles in two of the first three year's that the women's tournament was held. However, the program hasn't been to the Final Four since 1986, but Watkins will hope to change that as the likely national player of the year. Watkins led USC to the Elite Eight last year as a No. 1 seed, but the Trojans were knocked out by UConn. Now she might get a chance at revenge with UConn seeded No. 2 in the region.

Meanwhile, South Carolina is the team to watch in the Birmingham 2 region. South Carolina won its first national championship in 2017, and it has since won the title in 2022 and 2024. The Gamecocks are aiming for their first repeat title this season under head coach Dawn Staley. They did not have a player earn First-, Second- or Third-Team All-America honors this season, with Joyce Edwards appearing as an honorable mention. Edwards averaged a team-high 13.2 points for a balanced South Carolina offense that has six players scoring more than eight points per game. The Gamecocks will rely on their depth as they try to win back-to-back titles in 2025.

The Texas Longhorns will be another 2025 NCAA Women's Tournament team to watch in the Birmingham 3 region. The Longhorns are the fourth and final No. 1 seed in the 2025 Women's March Madness bracket after winning a share of the SEC regular-season title and losing in the tournament championship game to South Carolina. Texas is led by sophomore forward Madison Booker, who earned All-American honors after averaging 16.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. Booker shot 43.9% from the 3-point line this season and her ability to score both inside and out will be critical for Vic Schaefer's squad. You can see how far all these teams go over at SportsLine.

How to make 2025 NCAA Women's bracket predictions

How far will those major programs go, and which Cinderella teams will make surprising runs through the 2025 NCAA Women's Tournament bracket? With the experts' track record of crushing their women's basketball picks, you'll want to see which stunners they are calling for this year before locking in any women's NCAA bracket picks.

So what's the optimal NCAA Tournament bracket 2025? And which March Madness underdogs will shock women's college basketball? Visit SportsLine now to see which teams you can back with confidence, all from the proven experts who are hitting nearly 60% of their women's college basketball picks since the start of last season.