Spocane, wash. , Lauren was so dominated inside Bates that she barely missed, on Friday night scored 31 points on 15 -16 shoots to take Mississippi to UCLA from 76-62, and for the first time after 2018, the elite eight of the women’s NCAA tournament was sent to Bruins.
The 6 -Foot -7 Bats added 10 rebounds and three blocks for No.1, which will face LSU on Sunday for the occasion to move forward in the final four. Tigers defeated NC State 80-73 on Friday.
Kiki Rice added 13 points and seven aid and the only other players in double figures for Bruce (32–2).
Tamia Sadler scored 14 points for the fifth seed rebels (22–10), which had reached eight times eight times, but not since 2007.
Bates had a uniform line-30 points and winning 84-67 richmonds in the second round of 14 rebound-brins.
Ole Miss defeated the boiler on the floor of her house to reach Sweet 16 for the second time in the last three years. In 2023, the rebels harassed Stanford in the second round before falling into Louisville.
Bates’s Leup put Breens ahead 19–10 in the initial quarter, but the Ole closed within 21–19 on the jumper of Miss KK Deens.
At the end of the first half, the fast-break paste of the deen got the rebels within 30–29 on the break.
Bruce opened the second half with an 8–0 run and went above 45–33 on Londin Jones’ 3-Pinter.
Gabriela Jackz was alone on a sharp-break carry that placed the UCLA above 63–46 in the last quarter, and Ole Miss never threatened after that.
This season only two UCLA necklaces came against Juju Watkins and Southern California, before Bruce took revenge in the final of the Big Ten tournament, defeated USC 72-67.
Trojan will also play in Spochen, facing the Canasus State on Saturday. This will be his first full game without Watkins, who tore ACL in his right knee during the first quarter of 96–59 seconds on the Mississippi state.
Bates scored 16 out of 30 first-half points of UCLA, this season for the second time when he scored more than half of Bruins, in a half.
This season he has 93 blocks, which are about three sports averages, and were named the defensive player of Big Ten.
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