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Kentucky stuns No. 1 South Carolina to win SEC women’s title
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Dre’una Edwards hit a 3-pointer from the highest of the important thing with 4.2 seconds left, and the Kentucky Wildcats rallied from 15 factors all the way down to upset top-ranked South Carolina 64-62 on Sunday to win their first Southeastern Convention girls’s event championship since 1982.
Kentucky hadn’t even reached this sport since 2014. These seventh-seeded Wildcats (19-11) gained their tenth straight sport with this the largest but after knocking off sixth-ranked LSU and No. 18 Tennessee to get to this championship.
Kentucky’s Rhyne Howard, proper, drives towards South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso, heart, and Aliyah Boston (4) within the first half of the NCAA girls’s school basketball Southeastern Convention event championship sport Sunday, March 6, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn.
(AP Picture/Mark Humphrey)
The Wildcats not solely snapped South Carolina’s 18-game profitable streak this season, in addition they ended the Gamecocks’ seek for a 3rd straight SEC event title for the common season champs with Kentucky’s fourth win in as many days.
South Carolina (28-2) led 45-30 with 4:45 left within the third quarter seemingly minutes away from chopping down the nets once more. However the Gamecocks did not rating after Aliyah Boston’s jumper with 5:04 remained that put them up 62-53.
The Wildcats closed the sport on an 11-0 run. Rhyne Howard lost the ball with no foul known as when she went down within the lane with 18.3 seconds left, giving the ball again to South Carolina. Zia Cooke missed each free throws with 16.4 seconds left to arrange the ultimate shot.
After Kentucky took the lead Destanni Henderson threw the ball simply previous mid-court and hit excellent of the rim, setting off a wild celebration by Kentucky.