NCAA Girls’s Event 2025: Gamecocks return to nationwide championship

The 2025 NCAA Girls’s Event continues Friday with Remaining 4 motion in Tampa, Florida.

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First, South Carolina stored its title protection alive because it dominated fellow No. 1 seed Texas. Gamecocks head coach Daybreak Staley will now compete for her fourth NCAA title, whereas freshman star ahead Joyce Edwards seeks her first.

Now, No. 2 seed UConn is trying to march previous the purpose the place it fell quick final 12 months, as Paige Bueckers seeks her second nationwide championship look. The Huskies should get previous a hungry and feisty top-seeded UCLA, which is searching for its first Remaining 4 victory and title sport look in ladies’s program historical past.

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No. 2 seed UConn vs. No. 1 seed UCLA

Defending nationwide champion and No. 1 seed South Carolina returns to title sport after rout of fellow No. 1 seed Texas 

Defending nationwide champion South Carolina left little question it will return to the title sport, getting 14 factors from Te-Hina Paopao and overwhelming Texas on Friday night time, 74-57, within the Remaining 4 of the ladies’s NCAA Event.

The Gamecocks are a win away from turning into the primary crew to safe consecutive titles since UConn gained 4 straight from 2013-16. 

Edwards added 13 factors, 11 rebounds and 6 assists for South Carolina (35-3), which used its expertise and poise to climate an early deficit and took management with its depth at each ends of the ground.

Three South Carolina gamers completed in double figures — Bree Corridor had 11 factors — and the Gamecocks dominated Texas within the publish with 40 factors within the paint to the Longhorns’ 22.

Madison Booker had 11 factors and three fouls for the Longhorns (35-4), who had been attempting to achieve their first championship since 1986. They had been within the Remaining 4 for the primary time since 2003 after a dominant season, which was their first within the SEC after coming over from the Large 12.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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