Women’s Elite Eight set
All four No. 1 seeds — UConn, UCLA, South Carolina and Texas — are still alive and have advanced toward the Elite Eight, with the Sweet 16/Elite Eight rounds being played at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento and tickets flying ( ). And for bracket nerds: the last remaining perfect women’s bracket among 40M+ entries belongs to an eighth grader in Pittsburgh (cbsnews.com).
The regional schedule lists (3) Duke vs. (2) LSU and (4) Minnesota vs. (1) UCLA for Friday, March 27, with (1) South Carolina vs. (4) Oklahoma and (3) TCU vs. (10) Virginia on Saturday, March 28. (sportingnews.com) All-session passes for the weekend start at about $200, single-session prices show Session 1 at roughly $40 and Session 2 around $170 on secondary marketplaces. (sportingnews.com) Texas’ Madison Booker poured in a career-high 40 points in a 100-58 second-round rout of Oregon, the most points by a Longhorn in NCAA Tournament play and the tournament-high this year. (secsports.com) The Longhorns then survived a 67-59 Sweet 16 win over Tennessee as Booker scored 17 in that game and Taylor Jones added 12 points and eight rebounds. (cbsnews.com) UConn’s Azzi Fudd scored 34 points — 26 in the first half — in a 98-45 second-round victory that featured a 31-0 run and sent the Huskies into the later weekend rounds. (uconnhuskies.com) The Gamecocks posted a 101-61 win over USC in the second round and will meet Oklahoma, the Big 12 team that handed South Carolina a 94-82 overtime loss earlier in the season. (usatoday.com) The lone remaining perfect bracket across major contests belongs to Otto Schellhammer, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Plum, Pennsylvania, who correctly picked the first 48 women’s games and is one-in-41.2 million in the NCAA-tracked pools. (triblive.com)
