The nation’s only undefeated college basketball team among men or women is back in the Final Four. No. 1 seed South Carolina fended off No. 3 seed Oregon State on Sunday to move on to Cleveland.
The Gamecocks earned their fourth consecutive trip to the national semifinals with a 70-58 win in Region 1 in Albany.
In Cleveland on April 5, South Carolina will face NC State after the Wolfpack upset No. 1 seed Texas in Portland 76-66. It will be NC State’s first trip to the Final Four in 26 years (1998).
The rest of the Final Four will take shape Monday. No. 1 seed Iowa and third-seeded LSU will meet in the Region 2 final (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) in Albany, a 2023 national title game rematch with a Final Four berth at stake. The game comes almost exactly a year after LSU beat Iowa on April 2, 2023, for last season’s championship.
In Region 3 in Portland on Monday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN), freshman JuJu Watkins leads top-seeded USC into the Elite Eight against Paige Bueckers and 3-seed UConn. The Trojans seek their first Final Four since 1986, while the Huskies are looking to get back to the national semifinals a year after their NCAA-record streak of 14 consecutive Final Four appearances was snapped.
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