Paige Bueckers carried UConn into the Closing 4 of the ladies’s NCAA school basketball event for a file twenty fourth time as she scored 34 factors in a 78-64 victory over USC.
Freshman Sarah Robust added 22 factors and 17 rebounds for the Huskies, who additionally boast a file haul of 11 NCAA titles, all beneath coach Geno Auriemma.
Bueckers, projected to be the No 1 choose in subsequent month’s WNBA draft, earned AP All-America honours this season and was named the Massive East participant of the 12 months for the third time.
The one factor left for her to realize is a nationwide title after she and the Huskies had been overwhelmed within the Closing 4 final 12 months by Iowa and final 12 months’s No 1 WNBA choose, school sensation Caitlin Clark.
Clinching the final Closing 4 spot alongside UConn on Monday evening had been Texas, doing so for the primary time since 2003 with a 58-47 victory over TCU.
Texas received a regional last for the primary time in 4 tries beneath coach Vic Schaefer, who beforehand made two Closing 4 journeys with Mississippi State.
Texas’ triumph ensures three regional No 1 seeds make up the Closing 4, together with defending champions South Carolina and high total seed UCLA.
South Carolina took down Duke on Sunday, whereas UCLA held off LSU to advance within the girls’s school model of March Insanity.
The Closing 4 video games can be performed on Friday, April 4, with UConn taking over UCLA and Texas going up in opposition to South Carolina for a spot within the championship sport, scheduled for Sunday, April 6.
What’s ‘March Insanity’?
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On the finish of the NCAA School basketball common season, two 68-team tournaments – one every for women and men – happen to crown the 2025 NCAA champions.
The boys’s event started in 1939 adopted by the ladies’s competitors in 1982, with each providing a stage to a few of basketball’s best future gamers. Superstars like Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, Derrick Rose and Michael Jordan all took half earlier than their NBA careers and helped change the event requirements ceaselessly.
Caitin Clark, the story of the 12 months in 2024, dominated final 12 months’s headlines together with her record-breaking performances as she introduced extra eyes onto girls’s basketball than ever earlier than.
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