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Emma Baccellieri

DARK SECRETS: Top women s teams with the clearest paths to the final four | Rare Historical Photos

There was very little debate this year about which four teams would receive top seeds. For weeks, it’s felt obvious that women’s basketball has UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina—and then it has the rest of the field. But the field has more fight in some areas than in others. 

Here’s the breakdown of those No. 1 seeds and their respective potential roads to the Final Four—ranked from hardest to easiest.

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