In the first half of Friday’s Final Four game, you could never tell NC State women’s basketball the odds. Despite facing the undefeated South Carolina Gamecocks — and despite being listed as 11.5-point underdogs — the Wolfpack came to play. While NC State trailed for the majority of the first half, the deficit was never …
Duke women’s basketball struggled with turning the ball over as it fell to UConn in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in Portland, Ore. on Saturday. Those 23 turnovers came back to bite the Blue Devils in the 53-45 loss, especially as they went on a 12-2 run towards the end of the fourth quarter that …
LOS ANGELES — Game and game again, someone unexpected decides to play March Madness hero for Alabama basketball. First, it was Mo Dioubate in the Round of 32. Then, it was Grant Nelson in the Sweet 16. But Nelson’s time as hero had to be short-lived. Foul trouble limited his minutes in the Elite Eight. …
ALBANY, N.Y. — Notre Dame women’s basketball guard Hannah Hidalgo had to come out of her team’s Sweet 16 game against Oregon State on Friday afternoon to have her nose stud removed. She picked up her first foul with .8 seconds to go in the first quarter, but that wasn’t why she stayed on the …
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Notre Dame women’s basketball team lost 70-65 in the Sweet 16 to Oregon State on Friday afternoon in the Albany regional. The No. 2 seeded Fighting Irish couldn’t overcome an off night from their leading scorer Hannah Hidalgo, who had 10 points on 3 of 17 shooting and only two field …
ALBANY, N.Y. – South Carolina women’s basketball held off a furious comeback bid to hold off Indiana, 79-75, in the Sweet 16 Friday at MVP Arena to advance to a fourth-consecutive Elite Eight. The No. 4-seeded Hoosiers (26-6) cut the No. 1-seeded Gamecocks’ lead all the way down to two points in the last minute …
DETROIT − Santiago Vescovi is out with the flu as Tennessee basketball faces Creighton in the Sweet 16 on Friday. Vescovi did not practice Thursday with the Vols at Little Caesars Arena. Vols coach Rick Barnes indicated Vescovi was ill but he expected that Vescovi would play when No. 2-seeded Tennessee (26-8) faces No. 3 …
DETROIT — March Madness made its way to Little Caesars Arena with the Sweet 16, where 1-seed Purdue knocked off 5-seed Gonzaga in downtown Detroit to advance to Sunday’s Elite Eight berth in the 2024 NCAA tournament Midwest region. For the third time in two years, Zach Edey proved to be too much for the …
For the second time in three years — and just the third time in program history — NC State women’s basketball is going to the Elite Eight. It didn’t look likely for much of the first half. The Wolfpack trailed by 12 at one point and were down by 10 at halftime. Cameron Brink was …
DALLAS — The 11th-seeded NC State basketball team is headed to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1986 after holding off 2-seed Marquette 67-58 in Friday’s Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament in American Airlines Center. The Wolfpack (25-14) dominated the first 20 minutes of the game and held on down the …