Paige Bueckers fires UConn into NCAA Last 4 of ladies’s school basketball event | Basketball Information
Paige Bueckers carried UConn into the Last 4 of the ladies’s NCAA school basketball event for a report 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 report haul of 11 NCAA titles, all underneath 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 Huge East participant of the yr for the third time.
The one factor left for her to realize is a nationwide title after she and the Huskies have been crushed within the Last 4 final yr by Iowa and final yr’s No 1 WNBA choose, school sensation Caitlin Clark.
Caitlin Clark dominated girls’s school basketball with Iowa final yr
Clinching the final Last 4 spot alongside UConn on Monday evening have 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 underneath coach Vic Schaefer, who beforehand made two Last 4 journeys with Mississippi State.
Texas’ triumph ensures three regional No 1 seeds make up the Last 4, together with defending champions South Carolina and high general 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 Last 4 video games shall be performed on Friday, April 4, with UConn taking up UCLA and Texas going up in opposition to South Carolina for a spot within the championship recreation, scheduled for Sunday, April 6.
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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 lads’s event started in 1939 adopted by the ladies’s competitors in 1982, with each providing a stage to a few of basketball’s biggest 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 eternally.
Caitin Clark, the story of the yr in 2024, dominated final yr’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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