UConn women's basketball star Paige Bueckers and South Dakota State's Kallie Theisen know each other from high school ball in Minnesota.

At just 23 years old, Paige Bueckers has already cemented herself as a force in women’s basketball: She’s the fastest player in UConn history to reach 2,000 career points; she was the first freshman to nab the Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy—and, come next month, she’s widely projected to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft.

Led by superstar senior guard Paige Bueckers, the second-seeded UConn Huskies were all over the No. 15-seeded Arkansas State Red Wolves in the first half of their first-round NCAA women's tournament game on Saturday.

The UConn women's basketball team leads Arkansas State at halftime of the first round March Madness matchup in Storrs.

Star Tribune basketball writer Kent Youngblood has LSU and Notre Dame among his teams heading to the Women's Final Four.

NCAA Tournament is set to be an exciting conclusion to a storied season of UConn women’s college basketball. The theme of the 2024-25 campaign was parity, and that has continued into the postseason. Each program will have to navigate through a sea of competitors worthy of holding the title of national champion.