The Final Four fun begins Friday night!
First, No. 3-seed NC State looks to continue their journey from unranked to on top, taking on No. 1-seed South Carolina, on the verge of completing a perfect season with a national title (7 p.m. ET, ESPN). Then, No. 3-seed UConn, depleted but undaunted, meet No. 1-seed Iowa, aiming for the national championship that eluded them last year (9 p.m. ET, ESPN).
No. 3-seed NC State vs. No. 1-seed South Carolina (7 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Five players who will take the court in Friday night’s first Final Four game were members of the 2022 national champion Gamecocks: Kamilla Cardoso, Bree Hall, Sania Feagin, Raven Johnson and Saniya Rivers.
While Cardoso, Hall, Feagin and Johnson still suit up for South Carolina, Rivers decided to take her talents to NC State, transferring to her home-state school after averaging 13 minutes and less than three points per game as a Gamecock freshman. Since then, she’s blossomed into a star, earning All-ACC honors this season as she posted 12.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.2 steals per game. She also provided one of the signature performances of this wild and wonderful women’s college basketball season, when she and the then-unranked Wolfpack fired a season-opening salvo by taking down then-No. 2…
. Then, the UConn Huskies take on the Iowa Hawkeyes (9 p.m. ET, ESPN).){kind=link}