N.C.A.A. Women’s Tournament: UConn Handles Mercer; Belmont Upsets Oregon

Jackson State entered the sport with a tie for the longest energetic win streak in Division I girls’s basketball. The crew competed in opposition to Baylor, then coached by Kim Mulkey as nicely, in final yr’s match — a doable rationalization for the way efficient their recreation plan was.

Jackson State’s 3-point taking pictures, particularly 4 well timed 3-point baskets from junior Miya Crump, stored Jackson State within the recreation, however it was the within effort of Southwestern Convention Participant of the Yr Ameshya Williams-Holliday that gave Jackson State its benefit by means of a lot of the fourth quarter.

Sharp guard play from Louisiana State, notably Jailin Cherry, who had a profession excessive 24 factors, helped the crew crawl again simply in time — and delayed one explicit girls’s match milestone.

No. 11 Princeton stuns Kentucky, the Southeastern Convention champion.

For the third time in N.C.A.A. girls’s match historical past, an Ivy League crew has received a recreation. For the second time, that crew is Princeton.

The Tigers managed a win for the primary time since 2015 as a No. 11 seed, regardless of competing in opposition to a nominally formidable opponent: a sixth-seeded Kentucky crew that had simply upset the very best crew within the nation, South Carolina, to win the Southeastern Convention match.

The Tigers took over early of their recreation on Saturday, although, thanks largely to the fearless play of senior guard Abby Meyers, who completed with 29 factors. Meyers and her fellow guard Kaitlyn Chen set the tempo, executing swish fakes and muscling previous a Kentucky crew that appeared to be perennially on the lookout for foul calls that by no means got here.

Rhyne Howard, Kentucky’s greatest participant and a projected first-round W.N.B.A. draft decide, tried to reply however her efforts have been futile. She made simply 4 of her 14 makes an attempt from the sector, and alongside along with her teammates regarded usually bewildered by the Tigers’ protection. Dre’una Edwards, who hit the buzzer-beater shot that received Kentucky its convention title, completed the sport with 16 factors and 12 rebounds.