Mitchell Northam | NCAA.com | December 3, 2019

NCAA women's basketball bracket, projected about 100 days from the selection show

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About 100 days from the selection show for women's college basketball, we asked NCAA.com basketball expert Michelle Smith to fill out a March Madness bracket based on everything she has seen so far this season.

Smith filled out a bracket in the preseason too, about 50 days before opening night.

We'll break down her bracket in a second, but let's take a look at it first. (Click here to open the bracket in a new window.)

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Michelle Smith projects the NCAA women's basketball bracket about 100 days before the selection show. Dec. 3, 2019.

Michelle Smith projects the NCAA women's basketball bracket about 100 days before the selection show. Dec. 3, 2019.

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And here's that bracket in table form...

	Greenville, S.C.	Dallas, TX	Portland, OR	Fort Wayne, IN
1	UConn	Baylor	Oregon	Stanford
16	Furman	Wagner	Southern	Cal Baptist

2	Oregon State	South Carolina	Louisville	Texas A&M
15	UNC Asheville	Abilene Christian	UC Irvine	Howard

3	Mississippi Stat	UCLA	Maryland	Florida State
14	SE Missouri	Marist	UT Arlington	Lehigh

4	Miami	Michigan State	Kentucky	N.C. State
13	Green Bay	FGCU	Idaho	Maine

5	Syracuse	Arkansas	Indiana	DePaul
12	Ohio	Northwestern	Oklahoma State	Dayton

6	Gonzaga	USF	Tennessee	Michigan
11	Iowa State	Iowa	Boise State	Marquette

7	Arizona	WVU	Missouri State	Notre Dame
10	Drake	Rice	Georgia Tech	Kansas State

8	Rutgers	Arizona State	Minnesota	South Dakota
9	James Madison	Princeton	Texas	LSU

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UConn, Baylor, Oregon, Stanford take No. 1 seeds

Smith's predictions for the top seeds have mostly remained the same since her preseason projection, but she has replaced Maryland with UConn in the top four. Smith slid the Terps back to a No. 3 seed in the Portland region after they lost to South Carolina and had a close call with James Madison.

UConn is off to a 6-0 start, though the Huskies haven't faced a real formidable opponent yet. However, DePaul, Notre Dame and Oklahoma are on their schedule for December. Megan Walker has led the Huskies so far with per-game averages of 20.3 points and 8.8 rebounds.

Baylor, the defending champs, are 7-1 this season. The Lady Bears have posted wins over two ranked teams in USF and Indiana, but fell to South Carolina by 15 points at the Paradise Jam. Baylor still has the fifth best offense and the sixth best defense in the nation, in terms of points scored and allowed per-game.

Oregon recently lost its top spot in the AP Top 25 rankings after losing to Louisville at the Paradise Jam. Still, the Ducks are 6-1, beat Team USA in an exhibition, and still have the third best offense in the nation, scoring 88.6 points per-game. Smith believes they'll bounce back from that loss to Louisville and take a No. 1 seed, and -- in this projection -- potentially face the Cardinals again in the Elite Eight.

Stanford has the 10th best scoring offense in the country and is the new AP Top 25 No. 1 this week. The Cardinal are 8-0 with wins over Gonzaga, Syracuse and Mississippi State, all teams Smith predicts will make the tournament. Stanford has been led by Lexie Hull's 14.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per-game.

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