Four seeded teams go down; Big Ten is dominant
And then there was one.
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| Washington's Cassie Strickland watches a Hawai'i block on her attack go out of bounds for a UW point -Seattle Times photo by Bettina Hansen |
The 2011 National Champion UCLA Bruins are out. So is last year’s Final Four entrant Florida
State. The 2011 National runner-up, Illinois,
didn’t even qualify for this year’s tournament.
That leaves USC
as the only team standing from last season’s Final Four. And we won’t be
surprised to see them there again.
#7 UCLA and #9 Florida State join #10 Louisville and #11 Kansas
as seeded teams that didn’t advance to this year’s Sweet 16. Make no mistake,
this grates on Hawai’i fans, who
believe more than ever that their team deserved a Top 16 seed and a chance to
host the first two rounds. As it was, the Rainbow Wahine were forced to travel
to Seattle, where they were eliminated for the second time in three years by (13)
Washington.
The Big 10 is the
big winner so far: Ohio State is the
only one of its seven tournament teams to be eliminated so far. The Buckeyes
were embarrassed by (16) Kentucky,
the team that most observers targeted as undeserving of a seed.
Four Pac-12 teams remain, including (13) Washington, (5) Oregon, (6) USC and (2) Stanford. The Omaha regional--where Washington will meet (4) Nebraska--is the only regional where all four seeded teams are still alive.
The Regional matches are December 7 and 8. The Final Four,
in Louisville, is December 13 & 15. All matches will be broadcast on one of
the ESPN networks.
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WEST LAFAYETTE REGIONAL
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AUSTIN REGIONAL
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University
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Austin
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(1) Penn St def. Bowling Green
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(3)
Texas def. Texas Tech
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Lexington
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Gainesville
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(16) Kentucky def. Ohio St
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(14)
Florida def. Col. Charleston
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Tallahassee
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Lawrence
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Purdue def. (9) Florida St
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Wichita
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Minneapolis
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Los Angeles
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(8) Minnesota def. Creighton
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USC def. St. Mary’s
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OMAHA REGIONAL
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BERKELEY REGIONAL
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Eugene
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Los Angeles
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(5) Oregon def. Dayton
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Michigan
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Provo
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Louisville
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(12) BYU def. Oklahoma
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Michigan
def. (10) Louisville
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Seattle
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Ames
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(13) Washington def. Hawai’i
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(15)
Iowa St def. North Carolina
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Lincoln
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Palo Alto
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(4) Nebraska def. N. Iowa
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(2)
Stanford def. Western Kentucky
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All the remaining matches will be available on the Internet via ESPN3 (live and replay Friday, replay only for the regional finals, national semi-finals and national final) and WatchESPN (live and replay, all matches). The regional finals will be live on ESPNU and the national semi-finals and national final will be live on ESPN2.
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