Sweet 16

Ohio State Women's Basketball Advances To Sweet 16 With 82-68 Win Over Kentucky

... Buckeyes. The win sends the Buckeyes (27-6) the Round of 16 for the second straight season. They'll meet either No. 1 Notre Dame or No. 9 Purdue next Friday in the semifinals of the Lexington Region. That's right, the Buckeyes opened in Lexington and will simply switch venues to UK's Rupp Arena for the regional semifinals next weekend. This is the Buckeyes' first back-to-back Sweet 16 trips since going in the 1988 and 1989 tournaments. If Purdue beats Notre Dame later on Sunday, then the Buckeyes will get a familiar foe in the Sweet 16. The Boilermakers and Buckeyes split a pair of games this season, but Purdue won the big one, beating Ohio State in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament on March 4. Notre Dame is the only one of the four No. 1 seeds that Ohio State didn't face in the regular season. The Buckeyes went 0-3 against ...

Women's Ncaa Roundup

... Wildcats’ furious rally from a 19-point second-half deficit and escape with a victory in Lexington, Ky. Fourth-seeded Kentucky (22-11) trailed 50-31 early in the third, but closed to 65-64 with 6:04 left. The fifth-seeded Buckeyes answered with 8 consecutive points behind Mc Coy. Ohio State earned its second consecutive Sweet 16 appearance. Mc Coy finished with 14 points and a team-high 12 rebounds, and Shayla Cooper scored 15 for the Buckeyes, who committed a season-low six turnovers. Makayla Epps had 21 points, and Evelyn Akhator had 14 points with a career-high 23 rebounds for Kentucky, which was looking for its second consecutive Sweet 16 berth. Mississippi State 92, De Paul 71: Blair Schaefer scored 18 points, Jazzmun Holmes added 14 and the host Bulldogs (31-4) beat the Blue Demons (27-8). Second-seeded Mississippi State used a 14-0 run in the ...

Bowling Green Captures First Sweet 16 Title

... was the first to accomplish the feat during the 2011-12 school year. Bowling Green was in the Sweet 16 for the fourth straight season and had lost to the eventual champion in each of the previous three – Covington Catholic in the 2014 semifinals, Owensboro on the 2015 final and Paul Dunbar in the 2016 quarterfinals. Bellarmine University signee Sean Mc Neil hit 6 of 12 3-point shots and scored 20 points to lead No. 8 Cooper (31-5), which was playing in the Sweet 16 for the first time. This story will be updated. Jason Frakes can be reached at (502) 582-4046 and __link__. BOWLING GREEN 67, COOPER 56. COOPER (31-5) – Dante Hendrix 9 p; Adam Kunkel 13 p, 4 a; Brayden Runion 8 p; Chris Mc Neil 0 p, 5 a; Sean Mc Neil 20 p, 6 r; Tripp Pittman 2 p; Blaine Walters 2 p; Noah Shidler 2 p. BOWLING GREEN (36-2) – Kyran Jones 11 p, 8 r; Terry Taylor 16 p, 10 r; De Angelo Wilson 11 p, 4 a, 3 s; Zion Harmon 18 p; Davion Dice 1 p; Eli Thurman 3 p; Trey Jones 6 p; Beau Buchanan 1 p. MVP – Terry Taylor (Bowling Green). ...

Bulldogs Advance To Sweet 16 After Defeating Depaul

... in the first quarter. Mississippi State played De Paul University in a second-round NCAA women's basketball tournament game on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Photo by Keith Warren. Keith Warren, For The Clarion-Ledger. Buy Photo. Mississippi State's Blair Schaefer (1) releases a shot in the first quarter. Mississippi State played De Paul University in a second-round NCAA women's basketball tournament game on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Photo by Keith Warren. Keith Warren, For The Clarion-Ledger. Buy Photo. Mississippi State's Jazzmun Holmes (10) directs traffic for the Lady Bulldogs. Mississippi State played De Paul University in a second-round NCAA women's basketball tournament game on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Photo by Keith Warren. Keith Warren, For The Clarion-Ledger. Buy Photo. Mississippi State's Blair Schaefer (1) is fouled by De Paul's Kelly Campbell (20) in the first quarter. Mississippi State played De Paul University in a second-round NCAA women's basketball tournament game on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Photo by Keith Warren. Keith Warren, For The Clarion-Ledger. Buy Photo. Mississippi State's ...

Oregon State Beavers Beat Creighton 64-52 To Advance To Sweet 16

... cut OSU's lead to 54-48 with 6:32 to play, Hanson connected on a layup and Mikayla Pivec sank a long jumper on the Beavers' next two possessions to get the advantage back up to double digits. Creighton never got closer than eight points after that. The rest of the Beavers' offensive output was balanced, with Marie Gulich tallying 12 points and 12 rebounds, Pivec chipping in with nine and Kolbie Orum and Breanna Brown scoring eight apiece. Key run: OSU began the game on a 11-4 spurt and hit six of its first 12 shots. That advantage grew to 12 at halftime, when Pivec drilled a three-pointer from the right corner and Wiese finished the period with two free throws to put OSU up 39-27. It was over when: Gulich connected on a layup on back-to-back possessions to put the Beavers up 64-52 with 41.4 seconds to play. Key stats: OSU shot 43 percent against a team that entered Sunday allowing an opponent field-goal percentage of 38. The Beavers also out-rebounded the undersized ...

New, Improved Devin Robinson Helps Drive Florida Into Sweet 16

... rebounds in a win against No. 12 East Tennessee State. In the second round, he had 14 points and 11 rebounds in a rout of fifth-seeded Virginia. “I feel like I still lacked in being more of a vocal leader and just being more engaged and playing with a little bit more energy than I did,” Robinson said. “I got a little comfortable. I just gotta take it to a new level, get outside my comfort zone.”. To be sure, Robinson has raw talent and athleticism. But it was his desire to coast on that last season that led to fewer minutes than he might have liked. By all accounts, he and White butted heads over it. It was just stubbornness, Hill said of his teammate. It’s thanks to a shift in his mindset that Robinson has become the Gators’ most improved defender. BRACKET:   Track the tournament. “I just knew that for me be a better basketball player, that I could be the best basketball player I could be, I had to play defense,” Robinson said. “That was one aspect of my game I was really lacking last year. “I just take pride in that. I take it personal when someone scores on me.”. That coupled ...

Shakayla Thomas Helps Lead Florida State To Sweet 16

... 29 (66-37) after scoring the first 10 points of the fourth quarter. “I feel like over the past couple games we are getting back to that mentality and style of the play that we had for much of the season,” said Leticia Romero, who was one of four FSU players in double figures with 14 points. Brittany Brown added 16 points and Imani Wright scored 14 for Florida State, which shot 57.1 percent from the field for the first three quarters before finishing 24 of 52. They were strong from the perimeter the entire game, going 7 of 14 on 3-pointers. Missouri (22-11) led 17-12 22 seconds into the second quarter on a Jordan Chavis 3-pointer before Florida State took the lead for good with a 17-2 run as Romero scored six points. The Tigers were held without a field goal for 7:12. “There's a different feel to the NCAA Tournament because there's a lot of feeling out from teams in the first quarter. I was proud that we were able to weather that and then make adjustments,” Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. ...

Big 12 Gets Three Teams Into Sweet 16

... has three teams advancing to the Sweet 16. West Virginia already punched its ticket to the Sweet 16 with a 83-71 win against Notre Dame on Saturday, setting up a date with No. 1 seed Gonzaga in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday. No. 5 seed Iowa State dropped a close game to No. 4 seed Purdue, ensuring that the Midwest Regional wouldn't turn into the Big 12 Tournament part II later this week in Kansas City, Mo. Instead, Kansas will get a big home crowd benefit when it takes on the Boilermakers on Thursday. “It doesn't really matter where we play, but it's Kansas basketball,” Kansas point guard Frank Mason III said. “And we get a chance to play 35 miles away from Lawrence, and I think it's just great for the fans and for us to get a chance to play there for the Sweet 16. So we're all excited.”. Kansas fans take over BOK Center. With Tulsa just a smidge less than four hours south of Lawrence, Kan., it should come as no surprise that the Jayhawk fans turned out en masse for ...