Ucla Men And Women (and Usc Women) Learn Their Tournament Path

From Marisa Ingemi and Felicia Keller: The No. 1-seed UCLA women’s hoops squad will big No. 16-seed California Baptist connected Saturday successful nan first information of nan women’s NCAA tournament.

The Bruins (31-1, 18-0 Big Ten), who won nan Big Ten tourney championship past week, were nan 2nd wide seed successful nan tourney section revealed Sunday, conscionable down wide No. 1 UConn.

“We watched a batch of UConn, we watched a batch of UCLA,” NCAA tourney committee chair Amanda Braun said connected ESPN. “The measurement we watched UConn triumph passim nan twelvemonth from opening to nan end, UCLA did a batch of winning too, but yet we gave UConn nan edge.”

There was a mobility arsenic to whether UCLA would beryllium named nan apical seed wide aft going undefeated successful Big Ten play and winning nan convention tourney last complete Iowa by 51 points, but nan undefeated Huskies stayed atop nan bracket.

Coach Cori Close seemed unconcerned pinch nan slight.

“Everybody other tin talk astir immoderate they want,” she said connected Sunday. “We’re going to talk astir what that takes, and we are wholly committed to conscionable being really focused connected america and our travel and keeping nan main thing, nan main thing.”

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UCLA coach Mick Cronin expects his squad to clasp lofty expectations that travel nan Bruins immoderate clip they return nan level during nan NCAA tournament.

The programme has won an NCAA grounds 11 nationalist titles and made 19 Final Four appearances.

No. 7-seed UCLA’s push for different heavy NCAA tourney tally originates Friday against No. 10-seed Central Florida (21-11) successful Philadelphia successful nan East Regional. If nan Bruins (22-11) win, they will look nan victor of No. 2 Connecticut (29-5) versus No. 15 Furman (22-12).

Cronin was hoping the Bruins, who flew location from nan Big Ten tourney successful Chicago connected Sunday morning, would get a break and unfastened postseason play Friday alternatively than Thursday. He recalled playing successful nan American Athletic Conference tourney title connected Sundays and still getting assigned Thursday NCAA tourney games, but Purdue coach Matt Painter told Cronin connected Saturday nighttime that he should beryllium successful statement for a Friday NCAA tourney opener and nan forecast proved accurate.

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From Ryan Kartje: After an up-and-down play without its injured superstar, USC still managed to make it backmost to nan NCAA tournament. But its way won’t get immoderate smoother from here.

The Trojans clinched a berth for nan 4th consecutive play connected Sunday. They’ll beryllium a No. 9 seed, group to look No. 8-seed Clemson successful Columbia, S.C., connected Saturday.

While nan Trojans will person to recreation crossed nan state to return connected Clemson, nan Tigers will only person a two-hour thrust from their campus.

“We won’t person nan home-court advantage, obviously,” USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. “But we’ll bring our West Coast juice. We’ll bring our energy. And I deliberation we’ll spot nan champion type of ourselves.”

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How Gabriela Jaquez became a breakout shooting prima for No. 2 UCLA

NCAA men’s and women’s brackets

Ducks suffer to Toronto

Cutter Gauthier scored pinch 2:30 left, Leo Carlsson had 2 goals and an assistance and the Ducks hit nan Montreal Canadiens 4-3 connected Sunday nighttime to regain nan Pacific Division lead.

Alone successful beforehand of nan net, Gauthier took Jeffrey Viel’s behind-the-back walk and snapped a changeable past goalie Jacob Fowler.

Troy Terry added a extremity and 2 assists successful his return from an upper-body wounded to thief nan Ducks amended to 37-27-3 and move a constituent up of Vegas successful nan Pacific Division. Chris Kreider had 2 assists, and Lukas Dostal made 27 saves.

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Ducks summary

NHL standings

Angel City

From Kevin Baxter: Neither Alexander Straus nor Mark Parsons were astir erstwhile Angel City played its first NWSL crippled successful 2022. But they didn’t miss much; successful 4 years nan squad had 1 winning play and made conscionable 1 playoff appearance.

So Straus, successful his first afloat play arsenic coach, and Parsons, 15 months into his occupation arsenic sporting director, decided to raze nan nine and its sad history and commencement over. And that break from nan past couldn’t person been overmuch clearer than it was successful nan opening crippled of nan team’s 5th play Sunday, a 4-0 rout of nan Chicago Stars.

“There is simply a small spot of a caller beginning,” Straus said.

The capacity was nan astir ascendant successful nine history and nan separator of triumph matched Angel City’s largest ever. It was besides nan team’s first season-opening triumph since 2022.

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Angel City summary

U.S. reaches WBC final

Gunnar Henderson and Roman Anthony homered and nan United States constricted nan Dominican Republic’s electrical discourtesy to triumph a thrilling semifinal 2-1 connected Sunday and move 1 triumph from capturing its 2nd World Baseball Classic championship.

The loaded American roster, led by National League Cy Young Award victor Paul Skenes and featuring stars Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge, reached its 3rd consecutive WBC title crippled aft winning successful 2017 and falling to Shohei Ohtani and Japan successful 2023. The Americans will look nan victor of Monday’s semifinal betwixt Italy and Venezuela successful Tuesday’s title game.

The Dominicans reached nan semifinals for nan first clip since winning nan WBC title successful 2013, but missing nan title was not nan extremity for a roster that featured six players who vanished among nan apical 10 successful MVP voting past twelvemonth and cruised done nan early rounds of this WBC.

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This time successful sports history

1938 — Temple defeats Colorado 60-36 successful nan first National Invitation Tournament and nan first awesome postseason hoops tournament.

1947 — Billy Taylor of nan Detroit Red Wings sets an NHL grounds pinch 7 assists successful a 10-6 triumph complete nan Chicago Blackhawks.

1955 — NHL President Clarence Campbell suspends Maurice “Rocket” Richard for nan remainder of nan regular play and playoffs aft striking linesman Cliff Thompson during a melee successful a crippled against nan Boston Bruins.

1961 — Montreal’s Bernie Geoffrion becomes nan 2nd subordinate to people 50 goals successful a play successful a 5-2 triumph complete nan Toronto Maple Leafs. Maurice Richard was nan first to do it, successful 1945.

1971 — Goaltender Glenn Hall gets his 407th and last NHL triumph arsenic nan St. Louis Blues station a 6-2 triumph against nan visiting Montreal Canadiens.

1990 — Philip Hutcheson of David Lipscomb University hits a moving five-foot hook changeable successful nan NAIA Tournament to go nan all-time scoring champion of assemblage basketball. The 6-foot-8 Hutcheson, who scored successful double figures successful each assemblage crippled he played, breaks nan grounds of 4,045 group successful 1969-72 by Travis Grant of Kentucky State.

2005 — Norway’s Robert Sorlie wins his 2nd Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race successful 1 of nan closest races successful years. Sorlie completes nan 1,100-mile title crossed Alaska successful 9 days, 18 hours, 39 minutes and 31 seconds. He’s still successful nan winner’s circle erstwhile Ed Iten of Kotzebue crossed nan statement 34 minutes later.

2007 — Kobe Bryant scores 33 of his 65 points successful nan 4th fourth and overtime to lead nan Lakers to a 116-111 triumph complete Portland.

2008 — Denver sets NBA play highs for points successful a half pinch 84 and points successful a crippled pinch a 168-116 rout of nan Seattle SuperSonics.

2010 — Lance Mackey wins nan 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to go nan first musher successful nan event’s 38-year history to triumph 4 consecutive races.

2012 — Kyle O’Quinn has 26 points and 14 rebounds to thief No. 15 seed Norfolk State stun second-seeded Missouri 86-84 successful nan West Regional of nan men’s NCAA tournament. C.J. McCollum scores 30 points and Lehigh upsets Duke 75-70 successful nan South Regional to go nan 2nd No. 15 seed to hit a No. 2 during a chaotic time successful nan NCAA tournament.

2013 — Mikaela Shiffrin delivers an astonishing 2nd tally to overtake Tina Maze and clinch nan World Cup slalom title pinch an improbable come-from down triumph astatine Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American teen trailing Maze by a monolithic 1.17 seconds aft nan first leg, finishes up of nan Slovenian successful nan 2nd tally to triumph nan slalom title successful her first afloat play connected nan circuit.

2013 — Ted Ligety caps his ascendant play successful elephantine slalom pinch a sixth World Cup triumph astatine Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The American skier joins Ingemar Stenmark arsenic nan only men successful nan 47-year World Cup history to get six GS victories successful a season. Stenmark’s 10-race expanse successful 1978-79 is nan record.

2018 — Senior defender Jairus Lyles scores 28 points and nan University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulls disconnected nan astir shocking upset successful NCAA Tournament history, defeating Virginia 75-54 to go nan first No. 16 seed to hit a No. 1 seed successful men’s basketball. Virginia enters nan NCAA Tournament arsenic nan No. 1 wide seed aft going 31-2 this season, including 20-1 successful ACC competition.

2020 — Major League Baseball suspends remainder of Spring Training and delays commencement of regular play successful consequence to COVID-19 pandemic; return limited connected recommendations by Centers for Disease Control.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

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