The action in the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament kicks back up on Friday, March 28 in Regional 2 in Birmingham where bitter rivals the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils meet for the third time this season, this time in the Sweet 16 at Legacy Arena at BJCC in Birmingham, Ala.

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And yet, so much has changed since Duke’s run to its last national title in 2015 or its most recent Final Four three years ago. Krzyzewski is gone, retired in 2022 after winning 1,202 games to set a men’s college basketball record along with winning five titles and reaching 13 Final Fours.

Third-year Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer, who won a national championship as a Blue Devil guard in 2010 and as an assistant in 2015, is now gearing up for his first Final Four at the helm. He enters the weekend boasting an impressive 89-21 overall record as the program's leader, including a 35-3 mark this season.

Duke and Houston, two of the nation’s most accomplished basketball programs, have only faced off once, in last year’s Sweet 16. The second meeting will come with even higher stakes Saturday night in the Final Four.