The primary 4 NCAAW Candy 16 matchups all through this yr’s NCAA Girls’s Event passed off on Friday.
The Duke Blue Devils, South Carolina Gamecocks, LSU Tigers, and UCLA Bruins superior to the Elite Eight with spots up for grabs within the Girls’s Ultimate 4, which is able to happen in Tampa, Florida the next weekend.
Fulwiley Impresses South Carolina With Clutch performs
In South Carolina’s shut victory over Maryland, sophomore guard MiLaysia Fulwiley made essential performs within the fourth quarter, together with a go-ahead basket that helped safe the win.
MiLaysia Fulwiley at present 🔥
• 23 factors • 5 rebounds • 3 assists • 9/17 FG
South Carolina advances!
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— Girls’s Hoops Community (@WomensHoops_USA) March 28, 2025
The SEC Sixth Participant of the 12 months contributed considerably for the Gamecocks, ending the sport with 23 factors, together with 11 within the fourth quarter. Fulwiley’s factors whole vs. Maryland is a career-high within the NCAA Event and was essentially the most by a South Carolina participant off the bench since 2000.
“If it is that form of recreation, Lay is the proper guard that you may name on to fabricate factors, and she or he did that,” South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley mentioned Friday. “Everyone simply began to circulation round her. We’ve not actually needed to play that method an entire lot, so it was a bit bit totally different however refreshing to know we are able to name on the teen, and she will come via for us.”
The South Carolina Gamecocks make their fifth consecutive look within the Elite Eight, and can face the Duke Blue Devils. These two groups additionally confronted one another earlier within the season as South Carolina took the win again in December.
Morrow Leads The Tigers And Makes Historical past With A Double-Double
Senior ahead Aneesah Morrow leads the LSU Tigers with a dominant efficiency within the workforce’s win over the NC State Wolfpack. She had a double-double with 31 factors and 19 rebounds whereas taking part in 35 minutes of motion.
Based on ESPN, Morrow surpassed Iowa’s Megan Gustafson by attaining 64 video games with at the least 20 factors and 10 rebounds over the previous 25 years. She additionally turned the primary participant to have at the least 30 factors and 15 rebounds within the NCAAW Candy 16 since Stanford’s Nneka Ogwumike in 2010.
Morrow will look to look within the Girls’s Ultimate 4 for the primary time in her collegiate profession since transferring from DePaul almost two years in the past.
With the victory, the LSU Tigers will make their third consecutive look within the Elite Eight and face the UCLA Bruins. It should even be a rematch of the 2024 Candy 16, wherein the Tigers eradicated the Bruins.
Betts continues her historic run for the Bruins with a double-double
UCLA Bruins junior heart Lauren Betts made historical past within the workforce’s 76-62 victory over the Ole Miss Rebels on Friday. She completed with a double-double of 31 factors and 10 rebounds.
Betts turned the third participant to report a number of 30-point and 10-rebound video games in a single postseason within the final 25 years. The opposite two gamers had been Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne in 2012 and Baylor’s Brittney Griner in 2013.
The No. 2 Duke Blue Devils will tackle the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks, adopted by the No. 3 LSU Tigers going through the No. 1 UCLA Bruins as Elite Eight matchups will happen on Sunday.
