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The shot rimmed out. Hands snapped to heads. South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston sank to the floor. And after the most dramatic of Final Four finishes, after inches separated heroism and heartbreak, Stanford players bounded toward their bench. They leapt into one another’s arms. Haley Jones, who’d hit the game-winning jumper, celebrated as jubilantly as anyone. Then she looked across the court, and paused. A few dozen feet away, she saw a dear friend. A friend she communicates with almost… Source link

UCLA players celebrate after beating Michigan on Tuesday. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) UCLA’s improbable NCAA tournament run continues. The No. 11-seeded Bruins held on in the second half to upset No. 1 seed Michigan, 51-49, to advance to play Gonzaga in the Final Four on Saturday night. UCLA joins 2011 VCU as the only teams to advance to the Final Four after having to play in a First Four play-in game before the first round of the NCAA tournament. Michigan had three chances to win the… Source link

A small private Catholic school in eastern Washington that didn’t win a single game over the first six decades of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament‘s existence knocked off USC on Tuesday to reach the Final Four. And the most remarkable part of this remarkable story is that Gonzaga’s supremacy was wholly unsurprising. The new premier program in men’s college basketball steamrolled the sixth-seeded Trojans in the Elite Eight, 85-66. Drew Timme, the Zags’ fourth-best NBA prospect, outplayed and… Source link

Each time Texas attempted to stomp back into it, South Carolina answered. The No. 1 seed Gamecocks handled the six seed with ease in the Hemisfair region, 62-34, and are moving on to the Final Four. Texas didn’t score over the final 12:30 of the game. South Carolina, which finished the 2020 season as the No. 1 team in the country, plays the winner of No. 1 overall seed Stanford and No. 2 Louisville.   South Carolina shuts down Texas in final quarter South Carolina advanced with a balanced… Source link

INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly 20 years have passed since Kelvin Sampson last climbed a ladder at an NCAA tournament regional and snipped a net to go to a Final Four. Over those two decades, Sampson has been atop the coaching profession, shrouded in NCAA infamy and rejuvenated by a hitch in the NBA. He bristles at the notion of his journey being some kind of redemption story, but his full circle from 2002 Final Four to 2021 Final Four encapsulates a dizzying gamut of emotions. In the wake of No. 2… Source link

Oregon State’s run to the Elite Eight may have been the biggest surprise of a surprise-laden NCAA tournament. The journey came to a heartbreaking end on Monday. Houston put the clamps down on the Pac-12 Cinderella early and fended off a furious second-half rally for a 67-61 win to punch its ticket to the Final Four. The trip to the national semifinals marks the first Final Four trip for the program since Hakeem Olajuwon led Phi Slamma Jamma to its second-straight title game appearance in… Source link

MaCio Teague had two big threes to propel Baylor to the Final Four. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) Baylor is in the Final Four for the first time in 71 years. The No. 1 Bears put No. 3 Arkansas away over the final six minutes of their Elite Eight matchup Monday night in an 81-72 victory thanks to a couple of key threes by MaCio Teague and a long shooting drought by Arkansas. The Razorbacks had cut Baylor’s advantage to 64-60 via two free throws with 7:34 to go but never got within a… Source link

Tiffany’s run of perfection is over. Jason Preston and the Ohio Bobcats ended Tiffany’s streak of getting every game right on her bracket Saturday night when No. 13 Ohio beat No. 4 Virginia in the first round of the West region. Tiffany was the last Yahoo user who had gotten every game right on her bracket. She correctly picked Oral Roberts’ upset of Ohio State, North Texas’ upset of Purdue and Syracuse’s win over San Diego State. And she had Oregon over VCU in a game called off because of… Source link

HawgBeat’s coverage of Arkansas’s journey in the 2021 NCAA tournament is present by Wright’s Barbecue. Already serving up the best meats in Arkansas, you can now also find Wright’s meat rub and sauces at Walmart. Rivals’ national partners at Rivals put in their picks ahead of the NCAA tournament tipoff on Thursday afternoon and four experts chose the Razorbacks to advance to the final four. Krysten Peek and Pete Thamel both have Arkansas in the tournament final, but have them… Source link

Novavax, Inc.’s NVAX final data from a pivotal phase III study evaluating its coronavirus vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373, showed that it was 96.4% effective against mild, moderate and severe disease caused by the original COVID-19 strain in the United Kingdom. The company also announced results from the complete analysis of its phase IIb study in South Africa. In the region marked by a vast majority of strains that are B1.351 escape variants, the vaccine candidate delivered 55.4% efficiency… Source link