WNBA superstars are smack-talking each other before their college teams face off in the Final Four

• Minneapolis is serving as the host city for this weekend's women's Final Four.
• A handful of WNBA superstars are in town for the week for USA Basketball camp.

MINNEAPOLIS — Just last summer, Breanna Stewart and A'ja Wilson were competing side-by-side in Tokyo to earn Team USA's seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal.

But just a few years back, the two superstar bigs were memorably battling it out in the college game.

Worlds have collided for Stewart and Wilson, as well as plenty of other WNBA stars, this week as they come together in Minneapolis; USA Basketball is hosting a national team camp just across the street from the Target Center, which will play host to this weekend's women's Final Four.

The crossover has seemingly transported some of the best pros on the planet back to college, with Team USA's stars smack-talking one another — in good fun, mostly — before their alma maters face off for a chance at a national title.

"There's definitely gonna be some banter," Stewart told Insider. "Especially with Stanford, South Carolina, and Louisville [in the tournament]."

A four-time national champion and three-time Player of the Year at UConn, Stewart is set to watch her alma mater face the reigning champion Stanford Cardinal in Friday night's semifinal. Though the Huskies have made it to the Final Four a whopping 14 years running, they'll play the underdog to a red-hot Stanford squad that hasn't lost since December.

But the other semifinal features the favorite to win it all: Dawn Staley's South Carolina Gamecocks. After sweeping the Naismith postseason awards — Staley as Coach of the Year and superstar center Aliyah Boston as Defensive Player of the Year and Player of the Year — the two-loss Gamecocks are ready to chase some more hardware. But Hailey Van Lith and a dangerous Louisville Cardinals team look to stop Boston and company in their tracks before Sunday's title game.

A'ja Wilson — the 2020 WNBA MVP and a national champion under Staley — stands firmly on the South Carolina side of the bracket. But her former Las Vegas Aces teammate, five-time WNBA All-Star Angel McCoughtry, is representing Louisville.

Needless to say, things have gotten a bit chippy at USA Basketball camp ahead of Friday's showdown of the one seeds.

"Angel's chit-chatting like Louisville's doing something," Wilson told Insider with a chuckle. "Yeah, she's chit-chatting like it's something."

But regardless of their personal biases and alma mater-based rivalries, Team USA's players are just looking forward to exciting games that showcase women's college basketball.

"I mean, it's gonna be a great Final Four," Stewart said. "All the teams are stacked, and I think that it's amazing just for women's basketball to continue to get eyes and viewership, hopefully from different perspectives."

South Carolina-Louisville tips off at 6 p.m. ET Friday night, with Stanford-UConn following shortly thereafter at 9:30 p.m. Fans can watch all the action unfold on ESPN.