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South Carolina top overall seed in women’s NCAA Tournament
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South Carolina earned the No. 1 total seed within the girls’s NCAA Match on Sunday night time.
This yr’s bracket expanded to 68 groups for the primary time to match the boys’s subject with the play-in video games on Wednesday and Thursday. The Gamecocks will face the winner of Howard and Incarnate Phrase — one of many First 4 video games.
Increasing the sphere was one of many many adjustments to the ladies’s basketball match within the wake of inequities revealed ultimately season’s NCAAs. The final 4 groups within the subject will play video games on Wednesday and Thursday.
Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer, proper, holds up the profitable trophy.
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The NCAA introduced the choices on Sunday for the primary time since 2006 this yr. They hope to maneuver it again to its regular Monday night time slot subsequent yr when additionally they wish to play the opening spherical play-in video games at a impartial website, just like the boys’s occasion in Dayton, Ohio.
Connecticut’s Christyn Williams, middle, reacts after receiving the match’s most excellent participant award.
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Whereas there are adjustments to the match there’s a welcome return to normalcy. The highest 16 seeds once more will host the first- and second-round video games, a yr after all the match was performed in a makeshift bubble in San Antonio due to COVID-19 issues. Although the coronavirus continues to be impacting the nation, the NCAA expects to have the ability to play the match in its regular places, together with at campus websites for the primary weekend.
South Carolina Gamecocks ahead Aliyah Boston drives towards the Tennessee Girl Vols within the first half at Colonial Life Enviornment.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut; Greensboro, North Carolina; Spokane, Washington; and Wichita, Kansas, will host the regionals and Minneapolis is the location of the Remaining 4 on April 1 and three.
Longwood, IUPUI and Incarnate Phrase will all be making their first look in March Insanity — a phrase the ladies are allowed to make use of for the primary time. Incarnate Phrase grew to become the primary sub-.500 crew to play within the match since 2015.