Minnesota, North Carolina, West Virginia win big in women’s NCAA Tournament top 16 reveal

West Virginia, Minnesota and North Carolina were the big winners of Saturday’s top 16 reveal for the 2026 NCAA Tournament, as the selection committee prioritized conference tournament results in its final pre-Selection Sunday reveal. The top 16 teams host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, a format that has existed since 2015, except for the bubble tournament in 2021. The reveal did not list the order of the top 16 seeds. The Mountaineers and Tar Heels had not been in either of the pri