Losses to Georgia Tech and Notre Dame (its only regular-season meetings) prevent North Carolina from placing even higher, but continued consistency in the ACC will have the Tar Heels poised to host in March for the first time since Sylvia Hatchell still walked the sidelines.

One of those freshmen is Joyce Edwards, who led South Carolina to a 101-60 dismantling of Oklahoma over the weekend. Here's more on Edwards and Co. in the latest women's college basketball Freshmen Tracker.

Playing defending national champion South Carolina was already difficult enough. But how the Gamecocks have responded to their toughest loss of this season makes them even more formidable. We're not talking about their lone loss,