Ohio State wins thriller vs. UNC
Congrats buddies, 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 hitch 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 like it needs to be a rematch of a title recreation however just isn’t, second-seeded UConn performs seventh-seeded Baylor whereas No. 3 seeds Ohio State and Duke are additionally in motion.
In case you’re searching for a spicy recreation, try the matchup between fourth-seeded Texas and fifth-seeded Louisville. And if offense or underdogs are your factor, high-flying Florida Gulf Coast tries to proceed wrecking brackets because the No. 12 seed faces fourth-seeded Villanova.
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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 acquired 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.
Remaining: No.3 Ohio State holds off No. 6 UNC in thriller
Jacy Sheldon drove the lane, cut 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 few minutes in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio State turned the ball over 3 times within the last 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 acquired leveled by a display screen 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 way more lopsided if not for Cameron Brink’s spectacular effort.
Brink had 13 rebounds and 7 blocks — three on only one play! — and she or he virtually single-handedly acquired Stanford again right into a recreation it trailed by 13 halfway by means of the third quarter. However Brink did not get sufficient assist offensively or, fairly frankly, from Stanford’s teaching workers.
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 photographs. 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 file. 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 heart 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 mentioned. “It’s very gratifying to have the ability to get thus far.”
It’s already been a historic season for the Hokies. The win over South Dakota State was Virginia Tech’s twenty ninth this 12 months, most in workforce historical past. The Hokies received 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 lots to be part of it as a result of Hokie Nation may be very particular,” Brooks mentioned. “Great folks have come by means of right here in all totally different sports activities and to have the ability to contribute to it means lots.”
Cheyney State
Daybreak Staley by no means misses a possibility to teach.
The South Carolina coach wore a Cheyney State jersey Sunday, a sartorial shoutout to the one HBCU workforce to make a Division I Remaining 4. Regardless of being Division II on the time, Cheyney State performed within the inaugural NCAA ladies’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 influence on the sport and for opening the door for different Black coaches.
“Cheyney State was the one HBCU to make it to a Remaining 4 and for them to be led by Coach Stringer, who opened doorways that now I stroll by means of, it was really an honor to put on this jersey and to characterize them,” Staley mentioned after the sport.
Losers: Georgia ball-handling
In case you come on the queen, you finest not throw away the ball.
Georgia gave Caitlin Clark and Iowa all it may 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 last 3:38, together with these three in a row, straight 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.
House-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 mentioned they may really feel the constructing shake. The decibel degree at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment needed to have registered on a seismograph machine. The arenas at LSU and South Carolina have been packed.
However is it truthful 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 might need had a greater shot late towards Utah if taking part in wherever else. And there isn’t any method 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 think about impartial courts for all three weekends of the match.