Amid the days of dogs in February, with the insanity promise, just around the corner, the overall women’s basketball disposal took place last week. The major individual offers and sudden results highlighted a large group of the 10 best matches.
During the past four days, USC annoyed Unprecedented Ucla. Uconn directing South Carolina – On the field of colonial life, no less. Texas Handle at home to overcome Lsu. Then Bruins – with the star Lauren Bates Out of Foot – I had to fight to the end to stop Michigan State To avoid the second loss in a row.
Jojo WatkinsThe best player at the University of Southern California of the year, got 38 points, 11 rebounds, 8 blocks and 5 decisive passes in Winning on No. 1 ucla. Madison Booker Average of 21.5 points for Texas during its last six matches. Azzi Food He hit six triple throws and scored 28 points as Huskies 71 finished GameCocks game House winning chain.
On Sunday, Texas ended an eight-day extension, winning the three best teams in a row-including South Carolina on February 9-two who have a great opportunity to win or draw for the normal season title in the first season in the Supreme Education Council. Longhorns may have lost some believers about whether they can compete for the title after losing 67-50 in South Carolina on January 12, but Texas’s ten victories have six-six against classified teams-may reduce these doubts.
No. 2 NotradamWho was not defeated in ACC, looking for his eighteenth victory in a row Monday (6 pm East time, ESPN) when you face No. 13 duke.
With the choice of Sunday less than a month, Michael Fuepale from ESPN, Charlie Karim and Alexa Philipine renewed the national title race after the last game list.
The national championship race is wide open – Texas may be the most important team
Philipo: The past four days have strengthened how April will be in April – at least, at the highest level of teams. Before last Sunday, I thought at the University of California in Los Angeles, South Carolina and Nutrdam in the first three teams in the country, most likely to reduce the net in Tampa. But Bruins and GameCocks have looked deadly over the past eight days, as the University of California in Los Angeles has lost its first loss in this season, and South Carolina had fallen into two three games for the first time since 2019.
Meanwhile, USC won its first victory over the number 1 deduction since 1983 and reaffirmed its place in the title conversation, especially if Watercins Suprynova went in March as it did against the University of California in Los Angeles. The amazing Uconn disorder in Colombia on Sunday for the first time this season indicated that the powerful structures are able to hit anyone.
However, no one had a better extension than Texas. The Longhorns team defeated three consecutive opponents in a row, including South Carolina and LSU, and showed that they may be dangerous like any team.
These six – in addition to the Irish – strengthened themselves in a layer above the rest.
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Texas falls LSU to win the tenth consecutive
Madison Booker is driving the road with 16 points, with Texas LSU 65-58 defeated, and the tigers handed over their second loss for this season.
Voepel: It is always great to see the disorders and big offers in February; It raises appetite for the month of March. But as Alexa said, the same group of teams we focus on most of the season is the best competitor to the national championship. Depending on how the bow appears, the menu can expand to a few teams that can go in the fourth final.
Inside the Uconn bubble, there is a continuous psychological analysis of the team, which joking coach Geno Auriemma decades ago. But outside, this does not exist: always expect Uconn Uconn in March. Huskies did not need a Sunday game to go as it did to prove that they could win everything. But it may make them feel improving about this possibility after losses against Notre Dame and USC in December, and to Tennessee earlier this month.
However, the past few days have been very enjoyable, and it is interesting to believe that at least six teams are competitors for the legitimate championship. Added this: Three of these programs either did not win the NCAA title (the University of California won Los Angeles in the National AIAW Championship) or did not win one title in a long time (the only NCAA title was in 1986; USC won in 1983, and “and” “and” “and” and “” and “and” ” 84).
Azzi Fudd and Uconn seem to visit in time
Philipo: Auriemma knows better than anyone who does not win in February in February in a national championship, and after Sunday he and his players spoke about the knowledge that this performance should be satisfied. Not helping the matter is that the unpredictable Big East menu is all that remains in the team’s schedule for the next month.
But most of them went to Sunday, believing that Uconn had not yet proven that he was a real competitor to the tournament. The dismantling of the structures in GameCocks has proven that they are now in that conversation. Their transitional game, the apostasy and the shooting of 3 points were much better than only 10 days when the Uconn was upset than Tennessee in Noxfel. Fudd 28 points have proven that they are able to go out in big games against higher competition, and performance should only help their confidence in moving forward.
But Orima also pointed to how his team I played to win Instead of playing as if they were hoping not to lose. If Huskies can continue to direct this aggressive, designed and confident mentality, they can reduce the net for the first time since 2016.
Voepel: Fudd has an abundance of talents that only reduce through very bad luck with injuries. But at the present time, it seems as if we see Fudd healthy and deadly. Its average reached 26.3 points in its past three games, as it got 19 compared to 30 from 3 points (63 %). It may seem excessively to say that Uconn goes as the shooting goes from 3 points, but there is a lot of truth to that. When Fudd plays the way you did on Sunday, everything works better for the powerful structures.
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Abrar: Edwards has a professional performance in South Carolina’s victory over Florida
Joyce Edwards score 28 points in the professional stage, as the number 4 of South Carolina bounces of her recent loss in Texas with a 101-63 explosion of Gutors.
South Carolina, who lost twice in eight days, has main things to work on
generous: There should be anxiety in Colombia. It was not just that South Carolina lost twice in its past three games, and even two teams overcame Gamecocks in different ways. In the past few years, and even earlier this season, the opportunity window to overcome South Carolina was one small: the opponents should be physical, made open shots and avoid transformations – it should have been the three. Not this week. Texas did not make one indication and committed 13 transformations but still overcoming South Carolina. Uconn did it by making 3 dumps -13 in all. Gamecocks has more twice as much than we have seen recently, and Texas and Uconn were clearly in two different ways.
But there was one common feature in each game: bounce. The tulle and the strong structures surpassed South Carolina over the glass. Uconn, in particular, controlled the battle of reversion 48-29. This only does not happen for the dawn teams of Stallie from Atika recently. It was surprising that we were witnessing on Sunday.
Voepel: Speaking to Staley recently about the Uconn match, she said another SEC coach asked her why she was ready to play Uconn in February, deep in the SEC season. The result is likely to help in the Great East, which was considered a rift from South Carolina.
But Staley has a good reason: She said that Uconn is a reference point for how ready her team is to the NCAA championship. Huskies’s loss of GameCocks may swing, but it gives Staley a clear vision on how her team matches a talented attack, which is always Uconn. This is important when you want to compete for a national championship.
SEC is grinding, even more this season after adding Texas and Oklahoma To the conference. Front loss Ashlin Watercins (The knee) in January did not immediately appear in the results of South Carolina, but did this last week. Gamecocks against Texas and Uconn, especially on councils and defensive. They didn’t shoot well enough to overcome Texas and did not defend well enough to be in the game with Uconn.
They depend on a student Joyce Edwards To be the player who starts in a team, everyone was more than the total of the parts this season. Everything was working well – except for three times it was not (against UCLA, Texas and Uconn). Something certain: Staley will not have a problem in attracting her team’s attention after last week.
Philipo: Staley Postgame Sunday said that the way GameCocks played to her that “it is clear … something else that happens not only the basketball.” She did not explain what might be specifically, but she mentioned the importance of her team playing with durability, returning to his customs and identity, and ensuring that he maintains the main thing, the main thing.
There is still time for South Carolina to do so, but with three losses for the first time since 2020-21, Gamecocks does not have the same aura that you did not embody in recent seasons.
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Mikayla Blakes falls from Vandy 55 to break the record for the registration
Mikayla Blakes AUBURN tasks, where he scored 55 points to score the Di Freshman registration record.
Quality at the top of the total women’s basketball for women is deep
Voepel: If anyone is concerned about the absence of individual stars to watch after Ketlin Clark’s departure to WNBA, this has been reduced. There are many competitors, the player of the year and the year student. We wish you success in putting money today for those who will win the national championship.
There are still some normal season games. Three of the remaining five Notre Dame games against the classified teams. UCLA and USC have a March 1 match in Paoley Pavilion. Then there are the conference championships.
Even outside the upper group of teams are some of the players to see, such as Vanderllet Student goalkeeper Michala BlixWho has Record 53 and 55 points In games this season.
In addition, knowing that we have the expansion of WNBA (finally) also means that we can think about where many of these players in the professional league will go over the next five years.
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Total women’s basketball reveals for the 16 -year -old
Check those who have done the 16 best NCAA committees as we approach the day of selection.
Seed number 1 is still liquid
generous: The best seeds are the same today as they were a week ago, but this does not mean that things have not changed. UCLA and South Carolina had a big margin of error, and for this reason they took the number 1 seeds despite the losses. This margin has now gone.
Uconn looked out of running, and still has long possibilities to be number 1 but closed the gap with Sunday’s performance. Huskies team will need help – South Carolina loses again, and a USC stumbling twice, for example. But as we have seen in the past seven days, this help may exist. Uconn received almost some assistance on Sunday night as UCLA and USC exceeded the depth of the fourth quarter to Michigan and Washington, respectively.
LSU was eliminated from the race for the first seeded with a loss on Sunday against Texas. SEC Championship is the only hope for Tigers to get 1 seed at this stage. Meanwhile, the Longhorns strengthened their position, and has a Notardam’s opportunity to do the same on Monday night against Duke.
The University of California in Los Angeles and Carolina weakens South Carolina in one of the first sources of what they did a week ago. The gaps were pressed between all of these teams, as they made games like the second USC-UCLA match on March 1, and perhaps every semi-final and final in SEC, ACC and Big Ten Minumental in determining the teams that ultimately end in the name of Four No. 1 seeds.
