South Carolina will advance to the Final Four for a third straight year
The NCAA Tournament Men’s Basketball Tournament: The Semi-Promoting Case of the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles and the University of Connecticut in the First Round
The final eight spots in the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament will be decided Monday. Follow along with the bracket and live scores, and check out our picks for the games we don’t want to miss (teams organized by seed; all times Eastern):
For the second year in a row, the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles beat a No. 5 seeding in the N.C.A.A. tournament. This time it was a victory over Washington State. Sha Carter had 24 points and Tishara Morehouse had 16 points. The Eagles held the Cougars’ leading scorer, Charlisse Leger-Walker, to 5 points on Saturday. They may have a harder time containing the star forward from Villanova, Megan Siegrist. In the first- round of the NCAA Division I tournament, Siegrist scored 35 points and became the fifth women’s player in N.C.A.A. history to score more than 1,000 points in a single season.
Indiana easily dispatched Tennessee Tech on Saturday in its first N.C.A.A. tournament game as a No. 1 seed, led by 19 points from guard Sydney Parrish. Miami, on the other hand, needed a 17-point comeback in the second half to beat Oklahoma State. The Hoosiers are playing to get to their third consecutive round-of-16 game, while Miami has made the second weekend only once. The universities played in the men’s tournament as well.
Alabama jumped out to a big first-quarter lead, as seventh-seeded Bears struggle early on Saturday. The third-largest comeback in the history of the event was by the Bears, which resulted in a 78-74 win. In the first half, the University of Connecticut raced to a 53-20 halftime lead and went on to a 95-50 win over Vermont. After the game, people were upset because of the absence of a foul call on the missed shot from DiJonai that was tightly guarded by two UConn defenders. Can we see the same type of drama in the sequel?
When asked if this South Carolina squad was the best team she’s ever coached, Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley said, “I mean, this team has been to three consecutive Final Fours. I think they separate from the rest of the team.
The defending champions were not at their best throughout the opening stages of their Elite Eight matchup against the Terrapins and were surprisingly trailing after the first quarter.
The Naismith women’s basketball player of the year, J.C. Clark, R.E. Kitley, and G. Amoore, played at the Iowa State University Seminal Basketball Tournament
The defending Naismith women’s player of the year has put on another impressive show when it mattered most, as well as being the defensive player of the year.
Boston, a sophomore forward, had 22 points and 10 rebound in the victory to propel her team to the Final Four for the third straight year.
Clark became the first player in NCAA Tournament history – men’s or women’s – to record a 40-point triple-double to lead Iowa to its first Final Four appearance since 1993.
Led by Elizabeth Kitley’s double-double and Georgia Amoore’s 24 points, the Hokies came back from a first-quarter deficit to seal victory in the Elite Eight.
It is huge. I can’t even speak right now, I can’t believe it,” Amoore told the ESPN broadcast on what it meant to advance to the first Final Four in program history.
