NCAA, Sweet 16 and Madness
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It's Final Four weekend in the city they like to call "The Big Guava" with four teams arriving midweek for the chance to win an NCAA Women's Tournament national championship.
From USA TODAY
One of America’s premier sporting events, the NCAA Women’s Final Four, returns to Tampa Bay in April for a record-breaking fourth time!
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Quite simply, this is not the year of the Cinderella squad. The silver lining: The second-weekend matchups are loaded.
The Wildcats shot a blistering 12-of-24 from three-point range in both of those earlier meetings, coming away with a 78-73 win on Jan. 28 and a 75-64 victory on Feb. 11 to hand the Volunteers two of their seven losses.
Reniya Kelly grew up in Hoover, Alabama, and led her high school team to three state titles at Legacy Arena in Birmingham. That’s where Carolina will face Duke in the Sweet 16.
A season steeped with promise ended in early heartbreak for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, who suffered a 71-62 upset loss to TCU on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.
Favorites went undefeated with a perfect 8-0 record in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1985, per Evan Abrams of Action Network. Teams favored by at least seven points in the 2025 tournament are also 26-1 overall, with the only loss being No. 5 Clemson's first-round defeat at the hands of No. 12 McNeese State.
It’s been three long days, but the men’s NCAA tournament returns Thursday with 16 teams just two wins away from the Final Four.
Since N.C. State and LSU met in the Bahamas in November, the Wolfpack and Tigers have combined to win 44 of 52 games and have evolved considerably.