The 2025 NCAA Ladies’s Event continued Sunday with the primary day of Elite Eight motion.
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First, defending nationwide champion and No. 1 seed South Carolina narrowly took down No. 2 seed Duke, 54-50. Then, top-seeded UCLA defeated No. 3 seed LSU, which gained the nationwide title recreation two years in the past, 72-65.
The Closing 4 is in Tampa, Florida on Friday night time.
Listed here are Sunday’s highlights!
No. 1 seed UCLA reaches its first Closing 4 by beating No. 3 seed LSU
Lauren Betts had 17 factors and 7 rebounds regardless of spending your entire second quarter on the bench, and prime general seed UCLA reached its first Closing 4 of the ladies’s NCAA Event with a victory over LSU on Sunday.
The 6-foot-7 Betts added six blocks for the Bruins (34-2), who will face the winner of Monday’s recreation between USC and UConn.
Gabriela Jaquez scored 18 factors for the Bruins and Timea Gardiner completed with 15, serving to to choose up the slack when Betts went to the bench after committing two first-quarter fouls.
Defending nationwide champion and top-seeded South Carolina beats No. 2 seed Duke to return to Closing 4
Chloe Kitts scored 14 factors and defending nationwide champion South Carolina reached the Closing 4 of the ladies’s NCAA Event for a fifth straight yr, beating Duke on Sunday.
The highest-seeded Gamecocks are two wins away from turning into the primary staff to repeat as champions since UConn gained 4 straight from 2013-16. South Carolina will play the winner of the Texas–TCU recreation that takes place Monday.
Second-seeded Duke was trying to get to its first nationwide semifinals since 2006. That staff misplaced in additional time to Maryland within the title recreation. The Blue Devils ladies have been additionally trying to be a part of the lads’s program within the Closing 4.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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