There is no doubt that 2023–24 has been the women’s basketball season of Caitlin Clark, the NCAA’s all-time scoring leader from the University of Iowa whose excellence has filled arenas and thrilled fans. Right alongside, though, is a group of flashy, talented newcomers elbowing their way onto the court shouting, “We’ve got next!”
Throughout the country, first-year stars such as JuJu Watkins of Southern California, Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame, MiLaysia Fulwiley of South Carolina, and Madison Booker of Texas are leading their teams and teasing even bigger things ahead in their first NCAA Tournament.
