About USA TODAY Sports’ 30 Days to the NFL draft series, which started March 25: Every five days, we will focus on a unique aspect of the 2025 draft, which is April 24-26. ESPN’s Louis Riddick is among the smartest of all NFL analysts. He’s a former NFL player, NFL team executive and all brains. Occasionally, I go to him when ...
And we’re onto the Elite Eight in women’s March Madness! What a slate of matchups we’ve got ahead. All four No. 1 seeds — UCLA, South Carolina, USC, Texas — are still alive, but their opponents are real threats. Paige Bueckers and No. 2 UConn keep cooking, Bueckers dropping 40 points in the Sweet 16 against Oklahoma. Hailey Van Lith ...
AI-assisted summary All four No. 1 seeds — UCLA, South Carolina, USC and Texas — advanced to the Elite Eight of the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament. South Carolina will face Duke, UCLA will take on LSU, Texas will play TCU, and UConn will face USC in the Elite Eight. Star players like UConn’s Paige Bueckers and LSU’s Aneesah Morrow have ...
On the sideline coaching a Sweet 16 matchup against No. 4 seed Maryland, South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley didn’t look like her usual vibrant self. She was somber, and her face calculated. Her South Carolina Gamecocks team found itself behind ― again. In back-to-back March Madness performances, South Carolina was down at halftime. It happened while playing the No. ...
SPOKANE, Washington — With or without JuJu Watkins, USC’s goal remains the same. It might sound preposterous, the idea that the Trojans can still win a women’s basketball national championship without one of the most transcendent players in the game. One who contributed nearly a third of USC’s points, mind you, and gave the defense its bite. But USC, the ...
ATLANTA – Bruce Pearl had an interesting framing for overall No. 1 seed Auburn’s matchup with Michigan State on Sunday for a spot in the Final Four. And by interesting, we mean utterly nonsensical. “We’re a team made up of only one five-star (recruit),” Pearl said Saturday. “One of the things I reminded my guys of, there are several guys ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Paige Bueckers knows how to throw a going-away party. A day after confirming she’ll enter next month’s WNBA draft, where she is all but guaranteed to be the No. 1 pick, Bueckers dropped a career-high 40 points on Oklahoma on Saturday and sent UConn into the Elite Eight for the fourth time in her career. “Honestly, we ...
LSU head coach Kim Mulkey joined UConn’s Geno Auriemma in voicing her displeasure over the super regional format. No. 3 seed LSU traveled over 2,000 miles away from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for its Sweet 16 matchup against No. 2 seed NC State in Spokane, Washington. The Lady Tigers defeated the Wolfpack 80-73 following a dominant 30-point, 19-rebound performance from Aneesah ...
The first ticket to the 2025 men’s Final Four has been booked. Florida is headed to San Antonio, Texas. No. 1 seed Gators overcame a 10-point second half deficit with clutch shooting down the stretch to beat No. 3 seed Texas Tech 84-79 and advance to the Final Four for the first time in 11 years. With a less than ...
Still part of the team. JuJu Watkins may not be in Spokane, Washington, as Southern California tries to make its first Final Four since 1986, but the Trojans are keeping their star player’s spirit with them. The tributes started when USC players donned Nike shirts with her face and signature bun on the front. The players were greeted by the ...