Women's March Madness 2024: Top 25 players in the Final Four - ESPN

Which players might steal the show at the women's Final Four? Iowa's Caitlin Clark, UConn's Paige Bueckers and South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso head to the national semifinals in the spotlight. But in ESPN's final rankings of the top 25 players for the 2023-24 season, we narrow the focus considerably: the best players for teams that will compete in Cleveland.

Just seven players from our Sweet 16 ranking are still standing, led by Nos. 1-2 Clark and Bueckers, whose teams square off in the national semifinals Friday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN). The others who are still ranked are Cardoso, Te-Hina Paopao and MiLaysia Fulwiley, UConn's Aaliyah Edwards and NC State's Aziaha James.

In these rankings, we put a lot of emphasis on how the players have performed during the NCAA tournament to help get their teams this far. South Carolina leads the list with eight in the top 25, fitting as the Gamecocks are the undefeated overall No. 1 seed and the team with the most depth.

ESPN's Charlie Creme, Alexa Philippou and Michael Voepel look at the top performers who are about to take women's college basketball's biggest stage.

Guard | 6-foot-0 | senior
Stats: 32.0 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 9.0 APG, 1.8 SPG

Just when you think you've seen it all from Clark, she drops 29 points and 15 assists in the Sweet 16, and 41 and 12 in the Elite Eight. In the regional final win over LSU, she also tied an NCAA single-game record with nine 3-pointers. Clark has led Iowa to back-to-back Final Four appearances and enters the last weekend of her college career with 3,900 points and 1,132 assists. She stayed in the top spot of our player rankings all season. — Voepel

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