NCAA Women's Basketball Championship - Regional 4 in Sacramento - First Four

16-19

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Samford SAM	8	16	20	9	53
Southern SOU	11	16	17	21	65

Southern JaguarsSouthernSOU

20-13

Southern Jaguars vs Samford Bulldogs

Game Information

Columbia, SC

NCAA Division I

Southern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Chattanooga	10-4	-	20-11
East Tennessee State	10-4	-	18-13
Wofford	10-4	-	16-13
Furman	9-5	1	18-13
Mercer	7-7	3	17-13
Samford	6-8	4	16-19
UNC Greensboro	4-10	6	14-16
Western Carolina	0-14	10	3-26

Southwestern Athletic Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Alabama A&M	17-1	-	22-11
Alcorn State	14-4	3	17-14
Southern	12-6	5	20-14
Alabama State	12-6	5	17-15
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	10-8	7	15-16
Grambling	10-8	7	13-19
Jackson State	10-8	7	12-19
Florida A&M	7-11	10	9-22
Texas Southern	6-12	11	10-21
Mississippi Valley State	6-12	11	8-23
Bethune-Cookman	4-14	13	7-26
Prairie View A&M	0-18	17	2-28

Women's College Basketball News

Big 12 commish mulls new event if conference title games end

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said the league would find a new event to replace any lost conference title games should they be casualties of an expanded College Football Playoff.

17h

Breaking down the women's 2026-27 AP preseason Top 25 basketball poll

The first poll of the 2026-27 season is here. We look at the projected starters and biggest game for each team.

South Carolina tops AP's preseason Top 25 women's basketball poll followed by UConn, USC

Dawn Staley's South Carolina Gamecocks sit at No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 women's basketball poll, followed by UConn, USC, Duke and Michigan.

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