The second game is No. 2 Oklahoma vs. “I mean, South Dakota’s not your vacation spot, but we made it a vacation spot here”, A’ja Wilson said. “I don’t have to answer any of those second-round questions anymore. I’m in shock. I never had these before, but we’re definitely relieved to get that monkey off our back and move on”.
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After a brief reprieve, the NCAA Tournament kickstarts back into high gear tonight, with the Sweet 16 beginning a loaded four-game slate will determine the matchups for the South and West regional finals. “I am just happy I got to meet Kobe and he said a couple words of encouragement”. Josh Hart led the way with 19 points in just 27 minutes. What makes the Wildcats so unsafe is the way that they spread the floor and of their starting five, four players are shooting over 35% from three-point range.
The Wildcats shot 60.6 percent in the first half and 59.3 percent from the game.
Miami has to find a way to limit Villanova’s three-point shooting. Villanova outscored Iowa in the paint (36-26), on the break (18-0) and in points off turnovers (14-8). And the second-round game, against Providence, was actually competitive for the first half. Jenkins compiled 15 points against Georgetown in the quarterfinals, 21 points versus Providence in the semifinals, and 23 points in a loss to Seton Hall in the title game. While the 6-foot-6 forward took a step up in production from his sophomore campaign, when he added 6.3 points per contest, the junior fired up more shots, as well. “We only started with five to begin with”, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. “We didn’t adjust quickly enough”.
Jarrod Uthoff ended up being the focus of each team’s defensive strategy in the tournament. If Angel Rodriguez plays anything like he has these first two games, the Canes will be playing Saturday night for a spot at the pinnacle of college basketball, the Final Four. The Terrapins are 10 of 41 from 3-point range in the NCAA Tournament, but they’re making 67.3 percent of their shots from inside the arc. The Cavaliers are up 24-9 at the under 12 break, have rebounded half of their six missed field-goal attempts and Georges Niang has two fouls for the Cyclones.
Having a healthy Daniel Ochefu was the difference.
Ochefu wasn’t the only one. And in general this season, everything the Cardinal do well, the Irish tend to do a little bit better. “We scored a lot off of our defense”.
Jamie Dixon averaged 25.2 wins per season in 13 years at Pitt where he led the Panthers to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances during that span.
Guard play often results in success in the NCAA Tournament and luckily for the Miami Hurricanes, they have one of the best.
“We are very, super excited. It was huge. It was great”. “Like (Kyle Dranginis) KD said, we weren’t even supposed to be here”, McClellan said.
Maryland advanced to its regional semifinal without getting much of a 3-point attack. We played a game against Xavier at home that we played like that, and we’ve been on the other side of this. “The crowd was insane out there”.
Thompson deserves credit for helping her team get there after a tense stretch that featured a big hand from hobbled teammate Makayla Epps. We can all rejoice in Mr. March Tom Izzo’s first-round departure.
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Syracuse was in the news early in the season when coach Jim Boeheim served a nine-game suspension for NCAA rules violations, and the Orange were on the tournament bubble after going 9-9 in Atlantic Coast Conference games and losing their last three games. But I look at them more as an elite program, I think, than anything else.
