Women's NCAA Tournament 2012: All-Americans to Tangle in Baylor vs. Stanford

The Associated Press sure has a knack for adding intrigue to the NCAA tournament.

First, they put three All-Americans into the men's Final Four (Kentucky's Anthony Davis, Kansas' Thomas Robinson and Ohio State's Jared Sullinger.

Now, they've loaded the women's Final Four with more star-powered ammunition, as Brittney Griner and Nnemkadi Ogwumike prepare to go head-to-head when Baylor and Stanford take to the court in Denver on Sunday.

Griner and Ogwumike were both named unanimous first-team selections to the AP All-America squad on Tuesday, along with Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins and Maryland's Alyssa Thomas.

Griner, a 6'8" forward, posted averages of 23.4 points, 9.4 rebounds and 5.2 blocks while leading the Lady Bears to the brink of the first 40-0 season in the history of college basketball.

Not to mention a pair of impressive dunks during this year's Big Dance.

Ogwumike, on the other hand, has the Cardinal at 35-1 and in the Final Four for a fifth consecutive year after a campaign in which she averaged 22.3 points.

Luckily for college basketball fans, those two will clash in one of two national semifinals this weekend, though Ogwumike can hardly be expected to slow down Griner's seemingly inevitable march to the national title.

The Baylor star is as unstoppable a force as the women's game has ever seen, with the sort of size and skill in the post that would rival many of her male counterparts.

Of course, Griner and Ogwumike won't be the only standouts worth watching this weekend.

They'll both be joined by All-American second-teamers—Baylor's Odyssey Sims and Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike—and could end up opposite Notre Dame's Diggins, Maryland's Thomas, Kentucky's A'dia Mathies and/or UConn's Tiffany Hayes (all of whom were AP selections) in the Mile High City.

No matter who else ends up in Denver, all eyes will be fixed firmly on Griner and Ogwumike—and rightfully so.

After all, those two are more than likely to determine who walks away with the national championship at the end of the NCAAs.

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