In a extremely anticipated fourth matchup of the season on Friday between the Texas Longhorns and South Carolina Gamecocks, the Girl Gamecocks used a monstrous second half to advance to their second straight nationwide championship sport.
South Carolina will now have an opportunity to be the primary workforce to win back-to-back nationwide championships since UConn received 4 straight titles from 2013-2016.
With that mentioned, listed below are three takeaways from South Carolina’s 74-57 win.
Madison Booker disappeared (once more)
Booker was a star within the Longhorns’ lone win over the Gamecocks within the common season, ending with 20 factors and 11 rebounds.
After simply 11 factors in Friday’s loss, Booker mixed for simply 28 factors and 18 rebounds in Texas’ three losses to South Carolina.
She scored 17-plus factors in six of her final video games to finish the season, with the one two below that coming in opposition to the Gamecocks.
Joyce Edwards was one of the best participant on the court docket
Edwards scored 22 factors in opposition to Tennessee Tech within the Spherical of 64 after which mixed for simply 15 factors within the subsequent three video games.
She regained her confidence earlier than Friday’s sport and completed with a stat line of 13 factors, 11 rebounds, six assists and one steal.
Texas was fortunate to beat South Carolina as soon as
When wanting on the 4 contests between the 2 groups this season, South Carolina received its three video games by 17, 19 and 17. Texas received its one sport by solely 4.
It seems that the Longhorns have been extraordinarily lucky to finish South Carolina’s 57-game successful streak again in February. To not take something away from the excellent season that Texas had, however South Carolina was clearly the higher workforce all season lengthy.
