Ohio State wins thriller vs. UNC
Congrats mates, we’ve made it! After 96 video games and 4 action-packed days throughout each the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments, we’ve come to the ultimate eight video games within the second spherical.
Indiana faces ninth-seeded Miami because it tries to affix fellow No. 1s South Carolina and Virginia Tech within the Candy 16 and keep away from the destiny of Stanford, which was despatched packing Sunday night time. In what looks as if it must be a rematch of a title recreation however is just not, second-seeded UConn performs seventh-seeded Baylor.
No. 3-seeded Ohio State kicked off the day’s motion with an exciting 71-69 win over No. 6 North Carolina. Elsewhere, two No. 4 seeds — Tennessee and Villanova — rolled to wins.
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Closing: No. 5 Louisville upsets No. 4 Texas
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Hailey Van Lith scored 21 factors and the Louisville Cardinals locked down on protection, holding fourth-seeded Texas to simply 35% taking pictures from the sphere (and a cover-your-eyes 11% from 3) in upsetting the Longhorns, 73-51, on their residence ground.
It was a radical beatdown by Louisville, which has misplaced 11 video games this season, essentially the most since 2010-11 below Jeff Walz. However the Cardinals have put it collectively in latest weeks, profitable 4 of their final 5. The win over Texas advances Louisville to its seventh consecutive Candy 16. Solely South Carolina and UConn have longer streaks. The Cardinals will play Ole Miss, which pulled off the upset of the match thus far in ousting No. 1 seed Stanford.
All 9 Louisville gamers who obtained within the recreation scored, and the Cardinals dominated Texas within the paint, outscoring the Longhorns 38-20. Louisville’s bench additionally outscored Texas 25-14.
Rory Harmon, who led the Longhorns with 10 factors and 9 rebounds, left the sport with 2:41 to play with an obvious left leg damage. Texas made simply 7-of-22 layups.
Closing: No. 4 Villanova on to Candy 16 for first time in 20 years
Jay Wright noticed fairly a present.
The 2-time nationwide champion coach, now an analyst for CBS Sports activities, was readily available to see Maddy Siegrist and Villanova rout Twelfth-seeded Florida Gulf Coast, 76-57, and advance to the Candy 16 for the primary time in 20 years. The 2-time Large East participant of the yr had 31 factors, her sixteenth 30-point recreation this season, in addition to six rebounds, 4 blocks and 4 steals.
However the Wildcats aren’t a one-woman present. Lucy Olsen had 23 factors and 10 rebounds, and Villanova held high-flying Florida Gulf Coast to simply seven 3-pointers — nearly 5 beneath the Eagles’ common, finest within the nation.
Closing: No. 4 Tennessee rolls to convincing win over No. 12 Toledo
Toledo will all the time have these first six minutes.
After a layup by Sammi Mikonowicz pulled the Rockets inside two factors with 5:29 left within the first quarter, fourth-seeded Tennessee outscored Toledo 42-16 the remainder of the primary half and the Vols rolled to a 94-47 win. Tennessee dominated the Twelfth-seeded Rockets in each class, together with a whopping 58-29 rebounding benefit.
Jillian Hollingshead and Sara Puckett had 13 factors every, main 5 Vols in double figures. Tennesse obtained a scare when Jordan Horston, the Vols’ second-leading scorer, twisted her ankle within the third quarter and briefly left the courtroom. She returned quickly after and completed with 10 factors, eight rebounds and three steals.
Closing: No.3 Ohio State holds off No. 6 UNC in thriller
Jacy Sheldon drove the lane, break up two defenders and hit a loopy pull-up with 1.8 seconds to play to present Ohio State a 71-69 win over North Carolina within the second spherical Monday, an exciting end to a frantic previous couple of minutes in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio State turned the ball over 3 times within the closing 2:22, together with throwing it away with 16.3 seconds left and North Carolina trailing 69-67. The Tar Heels responded by tying it up on a pull-up from Deja Kelly, which arrange Sheldon’s game-winner.
Sheldon, who missed a lot of the season with accidents, completed with 16 factors, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Taylor Mikesell led the Buckeyes with 17 factors, whereas Eboni Walker (15 factors) and Cotie McMahon (14) additionally contributed double digits.
North Carolina’s Deja Kelly led all scorers with 22 factors. With seven minutes to go within the recreation, Kelly obtained leveled by a display and was visibly shaken up. She needed to be carried again to the locker room. With out her, the Tar Heels reeled off a 13-4 run. Shortly after she returned with 2:33 to play, North Carolina took its first lead of the sport. However they couldn’t end the job, as Ohio State advances to the Candy 16.
Winners: Energy forwards
Sunday was a big day for the bigs.
There may as properly have been a “This house belongs to” label on the paint for as monstrous because the performances by LSU’s Angel Reese, Utah’s Alissa Pili and Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley have been. Stanford’s loss to Ole Miss would have been much more lopsided if not for Cameron Brink’s spectacular effort.
Brink had 13 rebounds and 7 blocks — three on only one play! — and he or she nearly single-handedly obtained Stanford again right into a recreation it trailed by 13 halfway via the third quarter. However Brink did not get sufficient assist offensively or, fairly frankly, from Stanford’s teaching employees.
LSU had a 32-20 benefit within the paint over Michigan, and it was largely due to Reese. She had a whopping 24 rebounds, 14 of which have been on the offensive glass, and 6 blocked pictures. She scored a team-high 25 factors, too within the Tigers’ 66-42 romp.
Of Pili’s 10 rebounds, none have been larger than those she had on Princeton’s subsequent two possessions after paring what had been a 13-point Utah result in two. With Pili prowling within the paint, the Tigers couldn’t get beauty to tie or take the lead, permitting the Utes to carry of for a 63-56 win.
Kitley had a double-double – the fifty fifth of her profession, matching Virginia Tech’s all-time document. Although South Dakota State had an 8-point benefit within the paint, 38-26, it had solely eight second-chance factors. Of Kitley’s 14 boards, 9 have been on the defensive glass, serving to the Hokies surge to a 72-60 win.
Lauren Ebo
Regardless of taking part in at residence for the primary two rounds, many thought Notre Dame could be ripe for an upset given the lack of level guard Olivia Miles. Senior middle Lauren Ebo had different concepts.
Ebo turned in a spectacular efficiency within the Irish’s 53-48 win over Eleventh-seeded Mississippi State, ending with 10 factors, 18 rebounds and 5 blocks in 31 minutes. 5 of her 18 rebounds have been offensive, none larger than her board and putback with 4:38 to go that gave Notre Dame the lead once more. And her free throw with 35 seconds to play gave the Irish a 49-45 lead and made it a two possession recreation.
Virginia Tech
Welcome again to the Candy 16, Hokies. It’s been awhile.
Virginia Tech reached the second weekend of the NCAA match for simply the second time in program historical past, and first since 1999, with its victory over South Dakota State.
“To have the ability to get this group, this program to this degree may be very, very particular,” Hokies coach Kenny Brooks stated. “It’s very gratifying to have the ability to get so far.”
It’s already been a historic season for the Hokies. The win over South Dakota State was Virginia Tech’s twenty ninth this yr, most in workforce historical past. The Hokies gained their first ACC match title – of their first look within the recreation, no much less – and have been rewarded with a No. 1 seed, their finest ever within the NCAA match.
“It means loads to be part of it as a result of Hokie Nation may be very particular,” Brooks stated. “Fantastic folks have come via right here in all completely different sports activities and to have the ability to contribute to it means loads.”
Cheyney State
Daybreak Staley by no means misses a chance to coach.
The South Carolina coach wore a Cheyney State jersey Sunday, a sartorial shoutout to the one HBCU workforce to make a Division I Closing 4. Regardless of being Division II on the time, Cheyney State performed within the inaugural NCAA girls’s match in 1982 and made all of it the way in which to the championship recreation earlier than dropping to Louisiana Tech.
That workforce was coached by Corridor of Famer C. Vivian Stringer, whom Staley has usually praised for each her impression on the sport and for opening the door for different Black coaches.
“Cheyney State was the one HBCU to make it to a Closing 4 and for them to be led by Coach Stringer, who opened doorways that now I stroll via, it was really an honor to put on this jersey and to characterize them,” Staley stated after the sport.
Losers: Georgia ball-handling
If you happen to come on the queen, you finest not throw away the ball.
Georgia gave Caitlin Clark and Iowa all it might deal with on the Hawkeyes’ residence ground, and had Iowa teetering on the brink with 2:17 to play after UGA hit a 3 to get inside two, 68-66. Iowa missed its subsequent shot and UGA had an opportunity to tie or take the lead — however then the Bulldogs turned it over on back-to-back-to-back possessions.
4 turnovers within the closing 3:38, together with these three in a row, immediately correlated to UGA’s scoring drought the final 2:17 of the sport and in the end, Iowa’s 74-66 win. The second turnover in that string was the worst, as Clark turned it into two factors for the Hawkeyes. Georgia completed with 18 turnovers, which Iowa became 17 factors.
Dwelling-court benefit
It is comprehensible why the NCAA continues taking part in the primary two rounds at campus websites. The gang at Cassell Coliseum was so raucous, Virginia Tech gamers stated they might really feel the constructing shake. The decibel degree at Carver-Hawkeye Area needed to have registered on a seismograph machine. The arenas at LSU and South Carolina have been packed.
However is it honest within the NCAA match, when it is lose and your season is over?
You can also make the argument that Georgia would have beat Iowa if that recreation was performed on a impartial courtroom. Princeton may need had a greater shot late in opposition to Utah if taking part in anyplace else. And there isn’t any approach Stanford would have been inside 10 factors of Ole Miss had the sport not been on the Cardinal’s residence ground.
The ladies’s recreation has grown sufficient that the NCAA wants to contemplate impartial courts for all three weekends of the match.