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The Ultimate 4 is ready for the street to the ladies’s nationwide school basketball championship.
This Friday, Iowa will face off towards the College of Connecticut, whereas North Carolina State will battle South Carolina.
Caitlin Clark, who in March broke the all-time NCAA Division 1 basketball scoring report, led the Iowa Hawkeyes to victory Monday night time, scoring 41 of the group’s 94 factors of their rematch towards LSU, which scored 87 factors and misplaced to the group they defeated in final 12 months’s nationwide championship.
Additionally on Monday, UConn additionally defeated the College of Southern California 80-73. On Sunday, the South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Oregon State Beavers 70-58, and the NC State Wolfpack beat the Texas Longhorns 76-66.
The Ultimate 4 video games shall be broadcast back-to-back starting at 7 p.m. ET Friday on ESPN. The championship recreation will broadcast reside from Cleveland Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on ABC.
This 12 months’s ladies’s event has skilled report TV scores as recognition within the ladies’s recreation has made its gamers family names — be aware Iowa’s Clark, LSU’s Angel Reese, USC’s JuJu Watkins and UConn’s Paige Bueckers.
The NCAA obtained it proper, as a result of tonight’s ladies’s event matchups are top-of-the-line in historical past! There’s star energy on all 4 groups, nice teaching, and all have excellent storylines on how they made it to the Elite Eight! As a basketball fan and a fan of girls’s sports activities,…
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) April 1, 2024
Each UConn and NC State are celebrating Ultimate 4 appearances by each its ladies’s and males’s groups. The boys’s Ultimate 4 video games will happen this Saturday, when Purdue faces off towards North Carolina State, and UConn faces Alabama. The boys’s title recreation will happen Monday, April 8.