The Elite Eight is set. And joining Duke, LSU, South Carolina and UCLA in the next round of the women’s NCAA tournament are TCU, Texas, UConn and USC.
The matchups set on Saturday are intriguing ones: an in-state showdown between No. 2 TCU and No. 1 Texas, as well as an Elite Eight rematch between the Huskies — who rode Paige Bueckers‘ career-high 40 points in their win over Oklahoma — and Trojans, who rallied despite the season-ending injury to JuJu Watkins in their Round of 32 game.
We were there for all the action, and here’s your guide — complete with analysis from on-site reporters in Birmingham, Alabama, and Spokane, Washington — to everything that happened in Saturday’s games.
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Final: UConn 82, Oklahoma 59
How UConn won: Paige Bueckers and steals. It’s hard to believe the Huskies were down four at halftime. UConn completely controlled the final 20 minutes, outscoring Oklahoma 50-23 behind Bueckers’ highest-scoring half ever (29 points on 10-of-14 shooting). That gave Bueckers, who was scoreless in the second quarter but had 11 in the first period, a career-high 40 points — the most by a Huskies player in an NCAA tournament game. Kerry Bascom previously set the record with 39 points in…
