NCAA Women’s Championship 2025 is the most prominent: UcLa flights; South Carolina, LSU survival

the 2025 NCAA Women’s Championship Follow Friday with the first day of Sweet 16 Action.

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duke Today began with an antique defensive performance, as the second ranked blue demons made a third volatility North Carolina state. After that, No. 1 seed South Carolina She continued her defense for the title as GameCocks returned to stimulate thinking about thinking Maryland.

A third seed Louisiana State As in the third appearance in a row in the eighth elite, after passing through the second seed North Carolina state To get there.

The first seeded in the NCAA Women’s Championship, UclaThe part looked on Friday night. Bruins did not have a mini problem with work number 5 Miss first.

Here are all the biggest moments from the first sweet day 16:

Lauren Bates It was so dominant inside that she was barely lost, as she scored 31 points in 15 out of 16 fire to drive Ucla The past is in Mississippi 76-62 on Friday night and sending Boins to the eighth elite of the NCAA Women’s Championship for the first time since 2018.

Betts, which has 6 feet and 7 rebounds and three blocks for total seed number 1, which will be faced Lsu Sunday for an opportunity to advance to the fourth final.

Kiki rice He added 13 points and seven passes and the other player was the only player in double numbers for Broeners (32-2).

Tamia Sader He scored 14 points for the fifth seeds Rebels (22-10), which reached the elite eight times, but not since 2007.

Betts had a similar line -30 points and 14 rebounds-in the Bruins round in the second round 84-67 on Richmond.

Betts Bruins Purious in the introduction 19-10 in the opening quarter, but Ole Miss was closed within 21-19 in KK Deans‘The bird.

He achieved the rapid throw of the deans at the end of the first half of the rebels within 30-29 at the end of the first half.

Bruins opened the second half with 8-0 round and rose 45-33 Long Jones3 index.

Gabriella Jacz Everything was alone in throwing the fast ball that raised UCLA 63-46 in the last quarter, and did not threaten Ole Miss after that.

Two losses only at the University of California, Los Angeles, came this season Jojo Watkins And southern California before Burins in the Big Tornament Final, and they hit USC 72-67.

Betts scored 16 points from 30 points from UCLA in the first half, which is the second time this season that has scored more than half of the Bruins points in half.

It has 93 blocs this season, with an average of nearly three games, and she won the title of Big Ten Defense Player.

Lsu Return to the top North Carolina state In excitement, he moves to another elite eight

Aneesah Morow He had 30 points and 19 rebounds, Kylien Gilbert He had a critical block prepared Michaela Williams“Throwing the final tariff with 1:07 remaining, 3 seeds Lsu The past gathered the seed North Carolina state 80-73 in the NCAA regional semi-finals on Friday.

Wolfpack led 69-64 with leaving 4:29 before LSU begins to increase, led by Williams, who scored 10 points in the fourth quarter. After Gilbert prevented an attempt to throw the ball by NC State’s Zoe BrooksWilliams turned on the other end to make it 74-73-part of the game 10-0 for the Tigers (31-5).

LSU, who won the national title two years ago to coach Kim Molki, arrived at Elite Eight for the third season in a row and will face the University of California in Los Angeles.

Sumaya Smith It was 21 points and 11 rebounds for LSU, and Williams ended with 17 points and eight paintings.

Broox NCTE (28-7) led with 21 points. Coach Wes Moore and Bulbak were short in his attempt to reach the second consecutive match.

The game was characterized by seven changes in lead and four links, and the LSU 21-10 feature in the first quarter was the largest progress for either team. Moro was 10 points in the first period.

North Carolina fell forward to take over 40-36 at the end of the first half, and once again in the third quarter, 11 points from her 21st team in this period to put LSU at the forefront 57-53.

NC State opened the fourth quarter with 8-1. Wolfpack LSU contract without a field goal until Moro made the ball throwing a little more than seven minutes to play.

Moro was the best founder of the country, double this season. Her efforts in the Tigers have helped to overcome Wolfpack 52-36, including the 18-10 feature on offensive glass.

The 6-feet attacker is one of the two women in the history of NCAA with more than 100 doubles. It is also the only player in the country with more than 600 points and 450 rebounds this season.

South Carolina Alive Maryland To apply to the fifth elite in a row eight

Mailasia fulwileia Record 23 points, including a modified ball throw with 2:22 left, and Chloe Kitts He added 15 points and 11 rebounds to help the number 1 South Carolina to overcome the fourth seed Maryland 71-67 Friday, 16 of the NCAA Women Championship.

The national Gamecocks hero, defender of Terrapins all, went before he finally did enough in the last few minutes to put it away.

South Carolina It will face duke In the eighth elite on Sunday. The Blue Devils defeated her competition at the Atlantic Coast North Carolina 47-38 conference on Friday.

Dawn Staley followed 60-59 with leaving 3:25 before constipation Maryland Without a point during the next three minutes. The Gamecks (33-3) gave the Gamecks (33-3) to throw enough pillow.

Kitts added three free throws during the boom and Voluwelei recorded a campaign from the coast.

Gamecocks 66-60 rose with 25 seconds staying when Silor Povenberger Maryland’s dryness ended with a dryness with 3 index.

But TERPS was unable to approach because Gamecocks made five of six free throws below the extension, including two Voluili with 10.9 seconds that made it 71-65.

Kylene Simicl Tell 17 points to lead Maryland (25-8) before the exit.

None of the two teams was able to enter an offensive flow in the first three quarters. South Carolina was delayed from 43-39 late in the third before the period was closed through 13-7, an amazing transition basket was directed by Voluili, who went behind her back and then hit a shot.

The two teams met once in the NCAA championship, by winning 86-75 over South Carolina in the eighth elite in 2023.

South Carolina avoided becoming the first defense champion to lose this early in the championship since Luisville came out of Britney Greener and Paylor in 2013 in the Sweet 16 race.

duke The opponent descends UNC For a trip to the eighth elite

Olucci Okonua The third double double in this season was to lead the champion of the Administrative Coordination Committee Duke after North Carolina 47-38 on Friday and eight of the NCAA Women Championship.

The Blue Devils will make their twelfth appearance of the elite in the history of the program and will play either the first workbook and defend South Carolina or the fourth seed, which was scheduled to play later on Friday in Birmingham.

Okcanoa scored 10 out of 12 points in the first half with 10 rebound balls from the bench for Duke, which got 26 points from its seat compared to six North Carolina. Alaun Jackson End 10 points, and Toby FurniyehThe top scorer of the pioneer this season, which missed the second round with a disease, was held to three points.

Fifth year Alyssa Ostbi He got nine points in 3 out of 10 shooting for Tar Heels, who fell in their attempt to advance to the first elite 8 since 2014.

None of the two teams launched the ball well. Duke launched 31 % after losing nine first field goals. North Carolina gone 28 % of the field.

Part of it can be due to familiarity. The teams played each other for the second time this season less than a month ago. Carrolina coach Courtney Bangart said this week that there is an additional level of rest against a team they just played.

But this was also two of the most important defenses in the country in which it is going, forcing the transformations, wrong shots, and desperate desperate late at the beginning of the game.

This was the first meeting of the NCAA championship between the two teams, who played each other 111 times. North Carolina still holds a slight edge 56-55.

Reports by Associated Press

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