68 Teams, 68 Stats: Previewing the 2025 NCAA Tournament
One stat for every team in the field of 68
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To prepare you for the NCAA Tournament, we dug into the numbers and are bringing you one stat for each of the 68 teams in the 2025 NCAA Tournament field! We have broken the teams up by seed lines and ordered each line alphabetically. All stats include games against Division I teams only, unless otherwise noted.
No. 1 Seeds
South Carolina: The Gamecocks rank first in HHS Defensive Rating, which adjusts a team’s defensive rating for the strength of their opponents. This would be South Carolina’s fourth consecutive season leading Division I.
Texas: Texas is on pace for its best HHS Offensive Rating and its best HHS Defensive Rating in the HHS Era (since 2009-10). Together, their +48.0 HHS Rating ranks third in Division I and 5.8 points higher than their previous high in the HHS Era.
UCLA: Lauren Betts is currently averaging 19.6 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.9 blocks per game. In the HHS Era, Betts is on pace to become the only player to do that for an entire season.
USC: JuJu Watkins is on pace to become the first player in the HHS Era to average at least 20 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, two steals and 1.5 blocks per game.
No. 2 Seeds
Duke: Duke’s average opponent this season has an average HHS Rating of +19.1, which trails only South Carolina (+23.0) for the most difficult schedule in Division I.
NC State: NC State has fouled on only 14.6% of plays this season, the best (lowest) foul rate in DI. The Wolfpack are one of two teams with no players who have fouled out this season, with South Carolina.
TCU: TCU has the nation’s second-highest offensive rating (points per 100 possessions) this year, a major improvement from two years ago when they ranked 299th.
UConn: UConn’s HHS Rating of +53.2 is the program’s highest since 2017-18. While UConn has done it nine times, only two other teams have posted an HHS Rating of +53.2 or higher: Baylor twice and South Carolina once.
No. 3 Seeds
LSU: Aneesah Morrow is currently averaging 18.5 points and 13.6 rebounds per game. No other player in Division I is averaging even 15 and 12, and nobody other than Morrow this season and in 2021-22 has averaged 18 points, 13.5 rebounds and two steals since Columbia’s Judie Lomax in 2009-10.
North Carolina: Alyssa Ustby is the only player in Division I averaging at least 10 points, nine boards, 2.75 assists, one steal and 0.5 blocks per game. She was one of just two players to reach those marks last season.
Notre Dame: Prior to the injury that kept her out for all of 2023-24, Olivia Miles never shot 30% or better from three. This year, she is shooting 40.9%, 18.1 percentage points better than her previous season (2022-23). Nobody who played this year and last year had a larger year-over-year improvement (min. 75 3PA each season).
Oklahoma: Head coach Jennie Baranczyk’s calling card is that her teams are always near the top of the nation in assists. This season, the Sooners lead the nation with 21.9 assists per game. Since 2015-16, Baranczyk’s teams (Drake through 2020-21, Oklahoma 2021-24) have ranked no lower than sixth in the country in assists.
No. 4 Seeds
Baylor: Jada Walker and Sarah Andrews are one of just two sets of teammates in Division I to each average 10 points and 4.5 assists with fewer than 2.5 turnovers per game this season. Sarah Andrews was also part of the last Division I pair to accomplish the feat, doing so with Jordan Lewis in 2021-22.
Kentucky: Kentucky’s HHS Rating improved from -2.6 last season to 27.5 this year. That +30.0 swing is not only the largest in Division I this season, but it is also the second-highest single-year improvement dating back to 2010-11, trailing only Arizona’s +31.3 improvement in 2018-19.
Maryland: The Terrapins have the 11th-highest rebounding rate in Division I this season, thanks in large part to their offensive rebounding. Maryland pulls down 39.0% of its own misses, which ranks 16th in Division I and eighth among teams in the Power 4 conferences.
Ohio State: On a per-game basis, Ohio State’s 63.7 points allowed per game looks middling. However, when accounting for their pace (22nd in D-I) and the strength of their opponents’ offenses (15th highest average opponent offensive rating in D-I), their HHS Defensive Rating ranks 16th in the nation.
No. 5 Seeds
Alabama: Alabama is one of just three teams in Division I with three different players averaging at least 15 points and one steal per game this season. Along with LSU this season, they would become the first SEC team since 2009-10 to have three such players.
Kansas State: In 19 games with Ayoka Lee, Kansas State has won by an average of 28.5 points per game. In their 14 games without Lee, their average scoring margin has dropped to just 10.1 points.
Mississippi: Mississippi is one of just two teams (Baylor) with five players averaging at least nine points, one steal and fewer than 2.5 turnovers per game. They are on pace to become the first SEC team in the HHS Era to accomplish that feat.
Tennessee: Thanks to Kim Caldwell’s frenetic defensive system and blistering pace, the Volunteers have upped their steals per game from 4.8 last season to 11.4 this season, the largest increase in Division I this season.
No. 6 Seeds
Florida State: Florida State rarely turns the ball over, ranking fourth in the country with just 11.0 turnovers per game. When accounting for their pace, which ranks sixth, their turnover rate of 12.1% trails only Colorado State.
Michigan: The Wolverines join Notre Dame as the only teams this season with three players averaging at least 13 points, 4.5 rebounds and two assists per game. Maryland in 2020-21 and 2022-23 are the only other instances where a Big Ten team had three such players since 2009-10.
Iowa: The Hawkeyes are 16-3 when generating at least 15 turnovers and just 6-7 when forcing 14 or fewer.
West Virginia: The Mountaineers are on pace for their second consecutive season forcing 23 or more turnovers per game. Since 2021-22, West Virginia and Niagara (4) are the only two teams with multiple such seasons.
No. 7 Seeds
Louisville: The Cardinals do not block many shots, as they’re the only Power 4 conference team to post a block rate below 5% in each of the last two seasons.
Michigan State: The Spartans are on pace to become the first team since 2012-13 (along with Norfolk State) to average at least 12 steals and five blocks per game (min. 20 games played).
Oklahoma State: Oklahoma State scored 125 points in a win over Alabama State and then scored only 37 points in a loss to West Virginia a few months later. That difference of 88 points from their best and worst scoring outputs this season is the largest among any Power 4 conference team.
Vanderbilt: Freshman Mikayla Blakes joins Patricia Hoskins as the only players in NCAA Division I WBB history to put up multiple 53-point games in a career. Both Blakes and Hoskins did so in one just season, as Hoskins scored 55 points twice in the 1988-89 season for Mississippi Valley State, but Hoskins did it as a senior.
No. 8 Seeds
California: After winning just 14 combined games against Pac-12 opponents over their final four seasons in the conference, the Golden Bears have won 13 games against their new ACC foes this season alone.
Illinois: Illinois is just 1-8 when allowing their opponents to score 70 or more points. When they hold opponents below 70, they are 20-1.
Richmond: Richmond is one of the most efficient shooting teams in Division I, ranking first in 2-point percentage at 58.6% and fifth in 3-point percentage at 38.3%. Together, their 1.21 points per scoring attempt (PPSA) ranks first in the country and is the ninth-highest in the HHS Era, trailing only three of Iowa’s four seasons with Caitlin Clark, four UConn seasons, and the 2019-20 Oregon team.
Utah: Utah is on pace to become the first team in the HHS Era to have multiple players shoot 55% from two, 40% from three and 85% from the free-throw line (min. 20 games).
No. 9 Seeds
Creighton: The Bluejays are one of just two teams to post an assist-to-turnover ratio of at least 1.45 in each of the last four seasons. Other than Creighton and Colorado State, no other team has even done so three times in the last four seasons.
Georgia Tech: Tonie Morgan is the only player in Division I averaging at least 13.5 points and 5.5 assists with fewer than 2.5 turnovers per game. Morgan is on pace to become the first ACC player to put up those numbers since at least 2009-10.
Indiana: Indiana is a rare team that excels on the defensive boards but struggles on the offensive glass. They rank 18th and 350th in defensive and offensive rebounding rate, respectively, and are on pace to become the first power conference team in the HHS Era to rebound at least 74% of their opponents’ misses but fewer than 23% of their own misses.
Mississippi State: Junior forward Madina Okot is one of the nation’s most efficient rebounders this season, ranking sixth in offensive rebounding rate and 15th in defensive rebounding rate among players with at least 500 minutes played.
No. 10 Seeds
Harvard: Harvard has the nation’s No. 4 scoring defense, holding opponents to just 52.5 points per game. The last Ivy League team to hold opponents to a lower average was Princeton in 2021-22.
Nebraska: Britt Prince missed three games this season, and in those three games, the Huskers were outscored by an average of 2.3 points. In the 29 games Prince played, Nebraska won by an average of 8.7 points.
Oregon: Oregon features incredibly balanced scoring, with 11 players who average at least three points per game. They are the only team in Division I with 11 such players (min. 20 games played).
South Dakota State: The Jackrabbits ranked in the nation’s top two in defensive rebounding rate for the second time in three seasons. They especially dominated in Summit League play, becoming the third team in the HHS Era to post a conference defensive rebounding rate of at least 80% (min. 15 conference games played).
No. 11 Seeds
Columbia: From 2010-11 through 2019-20, Columbia won a total of 86 games against Division I opponents. In the past four seasons, they have won 99.
George Mason: Vanessa Blair-Lewis’s team has continued its steady ascent, ranking second in HHS Rating among mid-major programs this season after ranking 241st out of 267 in 2020-21 before she took over. Across Blair-Lewis’s tenure, George Mason has upped its HHS Rating by at least 7.0 four seasons in a row, the most of any team in Division I in that time.
Iowa State: Nobody makes more 2-pointers per game than Audi Crooks, who averages 9.2 makes per game on an impressive 61.7% shooting. If she finishes the season with more than nine made 2-pointers per game, she will become the first Big 12 player to do so since Brittney Griner in 2012-13.
Murray State: The Racers have the nation’s top scoring offense, averaging 87.9 points per game.
Princeton: This season marks just the second time since 2009-10 that the Tigers didn’t post the Ivy League’s top scoring margin against conference foes.
Washington: The Huskies shoot just 9.8 free throws per game, which is the fourth-lowest total in Division I. Their free-throw rate ranks dead last in the country, as they only get to the line on just 10.8% of their 2-point scoring attempts.
No. 12 Seeds
Ball State: Ally Becki is the only player this season averaging at least 16 points, five rebounds and six assists.
Fairfield: The Stags are one of just six teams in Division I averaging at least 0.90 points per play while holding their opponents below 0.72 points per play.
Green Bay: Green Bay has posted an assist-to-turnover rate of 1.51 this season, which ranks fifth in Division I. Last season, they led the country with a ratio of 1.73.
South Florida: After ranking in the bottom 4% of steal rate in each of the past two seasons, the Bulls have jumped up to the top 25% nationally.
No. 13 Seeds
Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon wins the turnover battle by an average of 6.3 per game, which is the 16th-best margin in Division I.
Liberty: Emma Hess averages the most playing time among Flames players at 26.0 minutes per game. Liberty is one of just seven teams with no players averaging more than 26.5 minutes per game this season.
Montana State: Taylee Chirrick leads the nation in steal rate, generating a steal on 7.6% of opponents’ plays. Among players with at least 200 minutes played, the second-best rate in Division I is just 6.2%.
Norfolk State: The Spartans are the only team in Division I with multiple players averaging at least 15 points, six rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. Only eight other teams have done that since 2009-10 (min. 20 games played).
No. 14 Seeds
FGCU: The Eagles are attempting 24.6 3-pointers per game this season, which ranks 36th in Division I. However, this is the lowest mark for FGCU in a single season since before the HHS Era, as they have not ranked below sixth in any of the prior 15 seasons.
Oregon State: Oregon State does not commit many fouls, and as a result, its opponents average just 5.6 trips to the line per game, the 10th-lowest mark in Division I this season.
San Diego State: San Diego State’s triple-overtime win over Wyoming is tied for the fifth-longest neutral site game in the HHS Era and the second-longest among conference championship games, trailing only Prairie View’s 4OT win over Mississippi Valley State in the 2013 SWAC title game.
Stephen F. Austin: SFA gets to the free-throw line on 23.9% of their attempts from inside the arc, which ranks second in Division I. This would be their fourth season in the top eight nationally over the past nine seasons.
No. 15 Seeds
Arkansas State: The Red Wolves let it fly from behind the arc, averaging 32.5 attempts per game. That is on pace to be the most by any team since FGCU averaged 34.5 attempts from deep in the 2021-22 season.
Fairleigh Dickinson: Fairleigh Dickinson averages just 11.8 turnovers and 13.1 fouls per game. The Knights are one of just four teams to post both of those numbers or better this season.
Lehigh: The Mountain Hawks are leading the nation in free-throw percentage, converting on 81.0% of their attempts.
Vermont: Vermont’s pace of 61.6 possessions per 40 minutes is the slowest in Division I this season and the slowest since Central Arkansas posted a pace of 60.9 in 2017-18.
No. 16 Seeds
High Point: The Panthers have held opponents to a 0.54 assist-to-turnover ratio this season, which ranks 13th nationally.
Southern: The Jaguars' average nonconference opponent had an HHS Rating of +22.1, which trails only Duke for the most difficult nonconference schedule in Division I this season.
Tennessee Tech: Tennessee Tech has a whopping six players averaging at least nine points and 3.5 rebounds per game. In the HHS Era, the only team to have at least six such players for a full season is Maryland in 2017-18 (min. 20 games played).
UC San Diego: Sumaya Sugapong is one of just six players averaging at least 14.5 points, four rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game this season.
UNC Greensboro: UNC Greensboro plays at a pace of 63.8 possessions per 40 minutes, which is the fourth-slowest pace in Division I.
William & Mary: William & Mary are 10-2 when scoring at least 70 points and 4-16 when scoring fewer than 70 points.