Leads are so overrated.
The second day of the NCAA Ladies’s Match was wild, with Baylor, Ohio State and Miami coming again to win by 16 or extra factors down. That is probably the most single-day ladies’s event and matches the report for your complete event set in 2017.
The rear offensive was Ohio’s trademark, so you can count on the Buckeyes to be 16 factors away from James Madison. Miami was not far behind, beating Oklahoma State 42-24 within the second half because the Hurricanes bounced again from a 17-point deficit.
After which there was Baylor. Alabama held him to 4 factors within the first quarter and the sport was so lopsided that at one level, Alabama’s Brittany Davis single-handedly received forward of the Girl Bears.
However sticking with the day’s theme, Baylor beat Alabama 48-33 within the second half and hit free throws to finish an 18-point comeback. It grew to become the third largest attract NCAA event historical past.
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“It is March,” Miami’s Hailey Cavinder stated. “It is a 40 minute recreation so we simply caught with it. … It was nervous, however completed the sport confidently. That is one thing I’ll keep in mind perpetually.”
We’ll all be. As quickly as our coronary heart fee is restored, that’s.
This is a have a look at the opposite winners and losers of Day 2:
WINNERS
Jaycee Sheldon
Like Sheldon by no means left.
In his tenth recreation of the season and first begin since Feb. 5, the Ohio State senior guard scored an help however missed the fifth double-double of his profession. She had 17 factors and 9 assists, in addition to 5 rebounds and 4 steals in 36 minutes of workforce scoring within the Buckcase’s third-place comeback over James Madison.
“Being there may be nice,” Sheldon stated. “We’ve got a fantastic workforce, nice chemistry, so it is simply enjoyable to play with them.”
A foot harm restricted Sheldon, who earned an honorable AP All-American point out final yr, for a lot of the season. She appeared in a single recreation between December 1 and the Large Ten event and had a restricted variety of minutes in the course of the event.
However now that she’s wholesome, she might be an enormous issue for Buckeye.
“She’s the individual on our workforce who makes everybody higher,” stated Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff. “Everybody will get a bit higher when Jaycee is on the court docket.”
Florida Gulf Coast
It is in all probability time to cease seeding the Eagles like a 12.
After all Washington State, the most recent 5-seed FGCU sufferer, would agree. A yr after the fifth seeded Virginia Tech workforce was knocked out of the bracket once more with a 12-to-5 victory, beating WSU 74–63 (it wasn’t as shut because the rating suggests). This was truly the third time FGCU had been profitable 12–5; The Eagles began this development in 2018 by defeating the Missouri.
What was spectacular on Saturday was how FGCU gained, with the Eagles main the nation in 3-pointers per recreation, averaging nearly 12 per recreation. As a substitute, they dominated the paint on Saturday, scoring 50 factors to Washington State’s 26. They solely hit 5 triples, which suggests they must play within the second spherical towards Villanova. FGCU has by no means gained a second spherical recreation. Will it change this yr?
Maddie Sigrist
After you have Siegrist, you do not want anything.
The nation’s high scorer scored nearly half of Villanova’s first-half factors—she had 22, Nova had 42—and completed with 35 because the fourth-seeded Wildcats beat Cleveland State 76-59.
Siegrist’s prolific result’s hardly stunning. She entered the event averaging 28.9 factors per recreation, greater than a degree larger than anybody else, and misplaced a report 50 factors to Seton Corridor final month.
Colorado
Buffalo superior to the second spherical for the primary time since 2003.
There was a time, within the Nineties and early 2000s, when Colorado was a workforce to be reckoned with in March. The Buffaloes entered the event 10 occasions over 13 years from 1992 to 2004, reaching the Elite Eight in 1993, 1995 and 2002.
However after shedding within the first spherical in 2004, Colorado solely made one look till final yr. Now he builds on that resurgence by profitable his first recreation in 20 years.
LOSERS
Washington state
Speak about coug’ing it.
13 days earlier than profitable the varsity’s first Pac-12 championship in any sport, Washington State was swept off the FGCU ground at quantity 12, 74-63. The Eagles used a 30-point third quarter to clear the opposition and shot 56% from the sphere within the win. In the meantime, WSU star Charlise Léger-Walker, who averaged 18.1 factors, 5.7 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.4 steals, performed no position. The junior guard was a pathetic 2-for-10 from the sphere, ending with simply 5 factors earlier than fouling 5:25 to play.
An argument might be made that the Cougars have been seeded as a high 5 – they completed seventh within the Pac-12 common season – however nonetheless, what a disappointment.
Joe Tartamella
The St. Johns coach in his eleventh season with Crimson Storm had a tremendous yr, ending 23–9 and choosing up two wins towards ranked groups. The St. Johns beat Purdue earlier this week in a play-in earlier than pushing sixth-seeded North Carolina to the brink to lose 61-59 in an exciting first-round recreation.
With 1.5 seconds left, St. John’s senior Danielle Patterson received to the three mark, which might have tied the rating (St. John’s have been trailing 61–58 on the time). Patterson, who shoots 81% of free throws, missed the primary two makes an attempt earlier than making his third.
However within the ensuing time-out, Tartamella scolded her for not intentionally lacking the third. Why did not he prepare her earlier than she fired?
At a time after we are having nationwide conversations about what is acceptable and what’s not in teaching, that bullying and educating will not be the identical factor, and the distinction between unhealthy and uncomfortable environments, stalking a baby on nationwide tv is who little doubt she’s already beating herself up—fairly deaf.
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