Texas forward Madison Booker dribbles the ball during practice prior to the national semifinals Women's Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

PHOENIX — Madison Booker has a midrange jumper that’s almost unblockable, beats defenders off the dribble, plays in the post when she wants, shoots the 3 if she needs to.

The Texas junior has great court vision, is an adept passer and is a menace defensively, bullying smaller guards on the ball, jumping into passing lanes off it.

Had it been an earlier era in women’s college basketball, Booker would have been a back-to-the-basket player.

But this is a new age, one where 6-footers are everywhere at this year’s Final Four and Booker is a guard — at 6-foot-1.

“You look at Madison Booker and, I mean, she’s like a mini-KD (Kevin Durant),” Kentucky coach Kenny Brooks said after Booker had 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists against his team in the Sweet 16.

The average height for an American woman is 5-3, according to the CDC.

Women’s college basketball has become the oversized outlier above the median, towering players spread across the Division I landscape, many of whom do more than just park under the basket.

This year’s repeat Final Four has a large collection of large players, UConn, South Carolina, UCLA and Texas arriving with a combined 36 players 6-0 or taller — 55.6% of all the players in Phoenix.

UCLA’s Lauren Betts is the tallest among the regular contributors at 6-7, anchoring a team with eight players at least 6-0.

The two-time AP All-American is a matchup nightmare, using her height and skill to score in a variety of ways — mainly shooting over smaller defenders. Betts is just as dominant on the defensive end, swatting shots, altering many more, deterring opponents from even thinking about going into the lane.

Betts averaged 18.5 points and 7.6 rebounds while shooting 60.1% from the field and leading the Bruins (35-1) with 71 blocked shots.

“It’s just really hard to defend her an entire game,” Duke coach Kara Lawson said after Betts scored 15 of her 23 points in UCLA’s 70-58 comeback win over the Blue Devils in the Elite Eight.

Betts and the Bruins will face pair of Texas bigs in Friday’s second Final Four game.

Kyla Oldacre is 6-6, Breya Cunningham 6-4 and the pair helped shut down Betts when the teams met in November in Las Vegas.

They’ve been doing it all season on a team that features nine players 6-0 or taller.

Behind the towering presence of Oldacre and Cunningham, Texas (35-3) was one of the nation’s best defensive teams, holding teams to 55.9 points per game and 38% shooting from the field.