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Topps unveils Bowman U NOW NCAA Tournament cards to commemorate March Madness
For college basketball fans, this is the greatest week of the season with the start of March Madness and the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Tournaments.
To commemorate March Madness Topps has launched a new Bowman U NOW card set in partnership with the NCAA and select student-athletes.
Bowman U NOW March Madness features 20 Topps athletes in the Men’s and Women’s tournaments, including such stars as Purdue’s Zach Edey, Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and LSU’s Angel Reese. All cards will incorporate the NCAA March Madness logo and team logos.
Eight-card packs, which will be available at Topps.com Monday afternoon, are selling for $139.99 per pack. Each pack includes six base cards, one guaranteed autograph, and one guaranteed parallel card.
Among the chase cards are a dual-autograph card featuring Clark and Edey. There will be one rare dual-auto card in every 10 packs. Other dual autos include: Clark/Reese; LSU teammates Reese/Hailey Van Lith; and Kentucky teammates Sheppard/Rob Dillingham.
The full athlete list for Bowman U NOW March Madness includes:
Women’s: Clark (Iowa), Cameron Brink (Stanford), Aaliyah Edwards (UConn), Reese (LSU), Georgia Amoore (Virginia Tech), Mikaylah Williams (LSU), Rickea Jackson (Tennessee), Van Lith (LSU), Hannah Hidalgo (Notre Dame), Paige Bueckers (UConn).
Men’s: Sheppard (Kentucky), Tristen Newton (UConn), Dillingham (Kentucky), Cody Williams (Colorado), Dalton Knecht (Tennessee), Edey (Purdue), Kyle Filipowski (Duke), Stephon Castle (UConn), Kevin McCullar Jr. (Kansas), Armando Bacot (UNC).
Topps has launched more than 120 Bowman U NOW cards this season featuring student-athletes, including 61 cards of college basketball stars such as Clark, who has had 13 cards, the most of any student-athlete.
Topps, which has been producing college cards the past two years, is working with the NCAA on additional programs to produce student-athlete cards.
