2025 NCAA® Women’s Final Four®: Schedule, Preview, and How to Watch With Sling

The 2025 Women’s Final Four has star players and elite teams. Here's the full schedule, preview, and how to watch with Sling.

UPDATE: The South Carolina Gamecocks and UConn Huskies will meet for the National Championship game on Sunday, April 6 at 3:00pm ET on ESPN and ABC. To watch with Sling, use the link below to subscribe to Sling Orange with ESPN.

The NCAA® Women’s College Basketball tournament is down to the Final Four®. No. 1 seeds UCLA, Texas, and defending champion South Carolina are joined by No. 2 UConn as the last teams standing. The Final Four will be played on Friday, April 4 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, followed by the National Championship game on Sunday, April 6. Here’s a preview of the games, along with information on how to watch the rest of the tournament with Sling.

How to Watch the NCAA Women’s Final Four® With Sling

Friday’s Final Four games will air on ESPN while the National Championship will air on both ESPN and ABC. ESPN is available on Sling with a subscription to Sling Orange. Use the link below to subscribe to Sling Orange with ESPN!

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Texas vs. South Carolina Preview

Friday, April 4 at 7:00pm ET on ESPN

Compared to the other blue blood programs in the Final Four, Texas feels a bit like an outlier. But make no mistake: this is an excellent team with a great chance to knock off the defending champions. Texas is the best defensive team in the country, and they held Tennessee and TCU 20-points under their scoring averages. Texas has also won three of their four tournament games by double-digits. Coach Vic Schaefer's teams are known for their stifling defense, and if they can keep it up for another two rounds, the Longhorns could bring home their first national championship since 1986.

South Carolina won't go down without a fight. The Gamecocks have proven that much through the first four rounds of the tournament, as they rallied in the 4th-quarter to pull off the victory over Duke in the Elite Eight and have needed a comeback to win their past three games. If that sounds like a criticism, it’s not: The Gamecocks are battle-tested and as the defending champs with all five starters returning from last season, they know what it takes to go all the way. They will also be looking for a measure of revenge after Texas knocked them off in February.

UCLA vs. UConn Preview

Friday, April 4 at 9:00pm on ESPN

As the No. 1 overall seed, UCLA isn’t sneaking up on anyone this season. 6-foot-7 star Lauren Betts is an absolute force: she’s scored 30 points twice in the tournament to go along with an average of 3.0 blocks per game. UCLA also has a three-point sharpshooter in Timea Gardiner and an elite facilitator in Kiki Rice, who is averaging 7.7 assists per game in the tournament.

What UCLA lacks is experience, something that UConn has in spades. The most storied program in women’s basketball, UConn is led by Wooden Award finalist Paige Bueckers, arguably the greatest Huskie of all-time. Given the number of legends that have come out of Geno Aurienna’s program, that might sound like an exaggeration, but Bueckers is proving it. Her career scoring average of 19.9 points per game is the highest in school history and her 105 points over the past three games is the most prolific stretch UConn has ever had. The Huskies will need her to continue that heater to overcome Betts, but she should get plenty of help from Azzi Fudd and star freshman Sarah Strong. We wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be the best game of the tournament.

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