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March Madness scores, results, bracket: Texas, USC, UConn roll on Day 2 of NCAA women’s tournament
- That’ll do it for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. There were a grand total of four upsets in 32 games: two 8 vs. 9 games and two 7 vs. 10 games. Every No. 6 seed or better won, most of them by a lot.
- LSU hits 100 exactly and is now the sixth team to break the century mark. It’s the first time in NCAA Tournament history five programs have broken the 100-point mark, per ESPN Stats and Information.
- Shayeann Day-Wilson is 3-for-3 from 3-point range after shooting 17.9% from 3 this season. Those three makes are nearly one-third of her total makes on the season (10) and she takes more than half of her field goal attempts beyond the arc. That will be major for LSU if Day-Wilson can do it regularly through a tournament run.
- One thing running through minds tonight: Kim Mulkey reminded everyone on Selection Sunday the No. 3 seed has been good to them.
- The final game of the night is pretty much over. The Tigers lead SDSU 73-36 with 19 points from Flau-Jae Johnson in her return and are outrebounding the Aztecs 37-23. Their defense has forced 15 turnovers.
- No. 1 seed Texas became the fifth team to break the century mark in the first round. It at least temporarily puts to bed concern around the Longhorns’ offense, which was shut down in the SEC Championship by South Carolina. Texas joins No. 1 seed South Carolina (108 points), No. 3 Notre Dame (106), No. 2 UConn (103 points) and No. 5 Tennessee (101).
- The Longhorns looked like a No. 1 seed, and they’ll face No. 8 Illinois in the second round. Madison Booker finished with 10 points, 14 rebounds and four assists.
- Meanwhile, William and Mary head coach Eric Dickerson Davis was smiling and exchanging hugs with her seniors on the sideline as their first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament comes to an end.
- Madison Booker has a robust 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting, 13 rebounds and three assists, with another 19 points from Taylor Jones. We probably won’t see much more of them tonight with the Longhorns up 77-44 on William & Mary.
- It hasn’t been the best week for the Aztecs athletic program. Their men’s basketball team lost to UNC by 27 in the First Four on Tuesday, and now their women’s team is down 29 to LSU at halftime of the first round.
- Aneesah Morros has a game-high 12 points, eight rebounds and three assists.
- If LSU stays hot from 3 throughout the tournament, watch out. The Tigers average 4.8 made 3s per game, ranking near dead-last in percentage of points from the perimeter (17.1%). They thrive on making it to the free throw line and capitalizing on their inside presence.
- LSU shot 5-of-6 from 3 in the first half taking advantage of San Diego State’s zone and are on pace to break their season-high 12 3s.
- Every player in that LSU big 3 has at least six points as the Tigers lead 27-10 at the end of the first quarter. The Aztecs are shooting 4-of-12 with six turnovers.
- No. 1 Texas leads 50-33 at halftime, with 12 points, four rebounds and two assists from Madison Booker.
- Down in Baton Rouge, Aneesah Morrow and Flau’jae Johnson started for LSU. They appear to be healthy and ready to roll, completing a dangerous trio with Mikaylah Williams that could cause chaos further into the tournament.
- Strong start by Taylor Jones with seven points for Texas. She and Kyla Oldacre each shoot 60% and tag-team big minutes in the paint for a squad that barely shoots 3s. Their success helped fuel the Longhorns down the back end of the SEC regular season schedule toward the AP No. 1 ranking.
- Jones earned All-America honorable mentions this week with Rori Harmon, and Madison Booker earned first-team All-America honors.
- The Longhorns lead only 23-18, and the Tribe kept it even closer for much of the first quarter. Given what we’ve seen from other No. 16 seeds this tournament, we might just have a game here.
- We’ve seen good games and maybes, but it’s almost entirely chalk heading into the final two games of the first round. Only four lower seeded teams have advanced:
- No. 10 South Dakota State (Spokane 4)
- No. 10 Oregon (Birmingham 2)
- No. 9 Mississippi State (Spokane 4) (Does it even count?)
- No. 9 Indiana (Birmingham 2) (See above.)
- Big 12 teams Utah (to Indiana) and Oklahoma State (to SDSU) lost two of those games. Should we be concerned for Big 12 leaders TCU and Baylor? Possibly.
- A good offense beat a good defense, and the Seminoles are on to the second round. They’ll face the winner of No. 3 LSU and No. 14 San Diego State for their first trip to the Sweet Sixteen since 2017
- Cancel that upset alert. The Seminoles are up 22, but Makayla Timpson might have rolled her ankle
- Illinois head coach Shauna Green has her first NCAA Tournament victory after taking over in 2022. She coached Dayton from 2016 to 2022, winning five regular season titles, two conference championship titles and four NCAA Tournament berths (including 2020, when the tournament was canceled).
- The Fighting Illini have showed promise in her tenure — the win over Iowa during Green’s first season and a berth in the First Four make the list — but had yet to take the next step. They won the first Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament a season ago behind their trio of Makira Cook, Genesis Bryant and Kendall Bostic. Before Green, Illinois had not made the tournament since 2003 and hadn’t made it to the second round since 2000.
- The Patriots scored a quick five points in the final minute of the third quarter to pull within reasonable striking distance of No. 6 Florida State. In what has been an extremely chalky tournament so far, this counts as an upset alert.
