I swear I’m not trying to pump my own bags, as they say (I’m not selling any!!) but its possible that Kiki Rice of UCLA could see her card market explode. Let me explain why I’m keeping an eye on it…

In her first two games of the tourney she’s led UCLA in scoring (a very good team, btw) and had 24 points in the round of 32 leading UCLA to a comeback win over Creighton.

IF (big if) UCLA, the number 2 seed and at one point the top team in the country, makes a run and wins the tournament they will need her to be the massive talent that she is in order to (theoretically) beat Angel Reese and LSU, then Caitlin Clark and Iowa, then JuJu Watkins and USC in the Final Four, THEN an undefeated South Carolina team in the finals.

Just an insane schedule ahead - again, theoretically since Iowa/USC/SC could technically lose along the way.

IF that happens for UCLA then she might become the biggest name in the sport (ok, biggest non-Caitlin Clark).