The Remaining 4 within the ladies’s NCAA basketball match is formally set, and it’ll function all 4 No. 1 seeds for simply the fifth time after Texas and South Carolina gained their respective video games on Monday.
Listed here are some winners and losers from Monday’s motion:
Winner: No. 1 seeds
The stage is ready for a pair of epic clashes in Friday’s Remaining 4. After Connecticut (38-0, 20-0 Huge East) and UCLA (35-1, 18-0 Huge Ten) punched their tickets on Sunday, Texas (35-3, 13-3 SEC) and South Carolina (35-3, 15-1 SEC) joined them on Monday. It’s the first time since 1996 that the identical groups are within the Remaining 4 in consecutive seasons.
The Longhorns held two-seed Michigan (28-7, 15-3 Huge Ten) to a season-low 41 factors and rode the new hand of junior ahead Madison Booker (19 factors, 8-of-13 FG) in a 77-41 win.
The Gamecocks, in the meantime, used a fourth-quarter runaway to knock off the three-seed TCU (32-6, 15-3 Huge 12), 78-52. South Carolina particularly excelled on the boards, outrebounding the Horned Frogs, 52-24, and outlasting a TCU squad that was searching for its first Remaining 4.
The Huskies and Gamecocks will meet in a rematch of the 2025 nationwide championship sport, and the Bruins will look to avenge their solely lack of the season after they face the Longhorns in Friday’s Remaining 4 nightcap.
Loser: Michigan’s offensive woes
Michigan entered the Elite Eight averaging the ninth-most factors per sport (83.5 PPG), however that was nonexistent in opposition to Texas. The Wolverines fell behind 22-9 after the primary quarter and solely shot 13-of-57 (23%) from the ground. Texas was going to be a problem coming in, however trailing early and capturing that poorly solely made it much more troublesome for Michigan.
Winner: Texas’ historic margin of victory in NCAA Event
The Longhorns have dominated their strategy to the Remaining 4, and the Wolverines had been the newest crew to return out on the shedding finish. In accordance with the ESPN broadcast, Texas has a 142-point margin of victory within the Huge Dance, which is the biggest by an SEC crew getting into the Remaining 4 in match historical past.
“I am unable to do something with out them,” Texas guard Rori Harmon instructed ESPN’s Holly Rowe after the sport. “I am not me with out them.”
