Cait 加える 8: Nine 指名するs to know for 会議／協議会 tournament week
Millions were introduced to women's college basketball megastars last March, when Iowa's Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes 嵐／襲撃するd the Final Four but LSU and Angel Reese flexed to take home the 国家の 選手権.
Ratings and apparel 爆発s since the 目印 moment for the Lady Tigers 示す 人気 of the sport is still climbing.
A stellar class of freshman made their 示す in the 正規の／正選手 season and are 運命にあるd to be tomorrow's headliners with strong showings in the postseason.
Passive fans 始める，決める to re-engage during the 2024 NCAA Tournament can check out the 最高の，を越す players during 会議／協議会 tournament week. Field Level マスコミ 申し込む／申し出s a get-to-know-you ちらりと見ること at Clark and eight others to watch this week.
Cameron Brink, Stanford: The Pac-12 Player of the Year and 防御の Player of the Year for the third 連続した season, Brink led college basketball in 封鎖するs (3.6 per game) and was fifth in 回復するing (11.9 per game). She had 16 二塁打-（テニスなどの）ダブルス and の近くにd the 正規の／正選手 season with 支配的な games in her home 明言する／公表する of Oregon last week. She pulled 負かす／撃墜する 24 回復するs and 得点する／非難する／２０d 25 points in the Feb. 29 勝利，勝つ over then-No. 11 Oregon 明言する／公表する.
Paige Bueckers, UConn: The 2021 国家の Player of the Year returned to the 法廷，裁判所 with a vengeance after 行方不明の all of last season and most of 2021-22. She has the Huskies in 論争 even without many of her talented チーム仲間s in the 倍の 予定 to 傷害s. Bueckers 普通の／平均（する）s 20.8 points per game but is 最高の，を越す two on her team in 事実上 every major 統計に基づく 部類. If UConn is to 勝利，勝つ a fourth 連続した 会議／協議会 tournament, 信用 Bueckers' 指紋s to be all over the トロフィー game. With 上級の 今後 Aaliyah Edwards to help carry the 負担, the Huskies aren't out of the mix for a 国家の 肩書を与える run.
Caitlin Clark, Iowa: Clark's 得点する／非難する／２０ing prowess has been 井戸／弁護士席 文書d. But really watch the basketball prowess of one of the most 技術d women's players in the world. The 32.3 points (No. 1 in the nation), 8.7 補助装置s (No. 1 in the nation) and 7.3 回復するs 普通の／平均（する）d per game in the 正規の／正選手 season might be all the data needed to encourage a 広げるing audience to tune into the Big Ten tournament in Minneapolis (a first-time sellout). In the 2023 tournament 肩書を与える game, Clark ripped Ohio 明言する／公表する for 30 points, 17 補助装置s and 10 回復するs.
Nuance in her game goes far beyond 得点する／非難する／２０ing. We awe at the 範囲, logo 3s -- she also led college basketball with 5.2 made 3s per game -- and snap 発射 解放（する）. …に反対するing coaches point out her step-ahead off-ball movement to create space and the uncanny ability to see the entire 床に打ち倒す at any game pace. Clark has 与える／捧げるd to sellout （人が）群がるs on her way to becoming the 最高の，を越す scorer in college basketball history.
Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina: One of the most decorated players, the former ACC co-防御の Player of the Year at Syracuse and the SEC 6th Woman of the Year for the Gamecocks last season, Cardoso was SEC 防御の Player of the Year. With 133 封鎖するs the past two seasons, the 6-foot-7 Brazilian stands as a punishing presence in the paint for undefeated South Carolina.
Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame: The 5-6 Hidalgo might be the player 対抗者s loathe seeing up の近くに the most. The leader in steals this season, Hidalgo 普通の／平均（する）s 4.6 per game and has heard 対抗者s tell チーム仲間s they won't bring the ball up if Hidalgo is guarding them. She was 述べるd by Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey as a "gamechanger" who is impossible to take out of games because of the トン she 始める，決めるs as a stopper. Hidalgo has already 配達するd memorable moments for the Irish. She 得点する／非難する／２０d 34 points with 10 回復するs and six 補助装置s in a blowout of UConn, with Paige Bueckers going 5 of 17 from the field.
Elizabeth Kitley, Virginia Tech: Three-time ACC Player of the Year Kitley is an unknown for the 会議／協議会 tournament 準々決勝 Friday because of a left 脚 傷害. The かつてない leader in points in 回復するs for the Hokies, she's the literal and figurative big 推論する／理由 Virginia Tech has a 発射 at returning to the Final Four. But the Hokies lost 支援する-to-支援する games entering the tournament in Greensboro and Kitley was in 涙／ほころびs on the （法廷の）裁判 Sunday after her 膝 appeared to buckle on a layup at Virginia. She had eight 30-point games in the 正規の／正選手 season and 18 points, 12 回復するs and seven 封鎖するs in the 国家の semifinal loss to LSU in the 2023 Final Four.
Angel Reese, LSU: Her total 生産／産物 and playing time are 負かす／撃墜する わずかに from last season when the Tigers 削減（する） 負かす／撃墜する the 逮捕するs, but Reese hasn't tempered her 選手権-level intensity or 競争の激しい spirit since an 早期に season （法廷の）裁判ing by 長，率いる coach Kim Mulkey. Reese played in only 17 games in the 正規の／正選手 season but was second in the country in 回復するing (13 per game) and 普通の／平均（する）d 19.4 points. She's comfortable and 確信して on the biggest 行う／開催する／段階 and is carrying herself like a player with more to 証明する. Coaches placed Reese on the All-SEC first team and All-SEC 防御の team.
JuJu Watkins, USC: She's coming to the Big Ten next season just as Clark vacates to the NBA. The Pac-12 Freshman of the Year was also on the All-Pac-12 team and finished second in the nation to Clark in 得点する／非難する／２０ing at 27.8 points per game. USC won nine of its final 10 games in a 会議／協議会-game blitz headlined by Watkins going for 42 points (18 of 18 解放する／自由な throws) to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Colorado, 87-81, to avenge a four-point loss in January. She also 得点する／非難する／２０d 51 points in USC's only 会合 with Stanford this season.
--Field Level マスコミ
