Monday’s Matchups to Watch in the NCAA Tournament

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The final eight spots in the round of 16 of the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament will be decided Monday. Follow along with the bracket and live scores, and check out our picks for the games we don’t want to miss (teams organized by seed; all times Eastern):

Women’s Tournament

7 p.m., ESPNU

For the second year in a row, Florida Gulf Coast entered the N.C.A.A. tournament as a No. 12 seed, and for the second year, the Eagles beat a No. 5 seed. This time it was a 74-63 win over Washington State. Sha Carter led Florida Gulf Coast with 24 points, and Tishara Morehouse added 16 points. The Eagles held the Cougars’ leading scorer, Charlisse Leger-Walker, to 5 points on Saturday. They may have a harder time putting the clamps on Villanova’s star forward, Maddy Siegrist. In Villanova’s 76-59 first-round win against Cleveland State, Siegrist scored 35 points and became the fifth Division I women’s player in N.C.A.A. history with at least 1,000 points in a single season.

8 p.m., ESPN2

Indiana easily dispatched Tennessee Tech on Saturday in its first N.C.A.A. tournament game as a No. 1 seed, led by 19 points from guard Sydney Parrish. Miami, on the other hand, needed a 17-point comeback in the second…

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