SEC Takes Over March Madness With 6 teams in Women's Sweet 16
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The Sweet 16 will have a definite SEC feel with six teams advancing from that conference to the second weekend of March Madness. Top seeds South Carolina and Texas cruised into the regional semifinals of the women's NCAA Tournament and are joined by No. 2 seeds Vanderbilt and LSU, No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 5 Kentucky. "I think it’s a great sign for the conference. You can’t really control if it’s spread out or not," Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph said. "But you know how we feel about the SEC conference. It’s the best conference in the country. If you want to win a championship, you’re going to have to come through us, so it’s not a surprise to me that we’re seeing that many teams in. We’ll see. Hopefully we’ll continue to be one of them." Both of the 1-seeds will have all-SEC matchups, with the Gamecocks facing the Sooners — the lone team to beat them in the regular season during conference play. "Our league prepares us for this level of play," South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. "There isn’t an opponent out there that we don’t feel like we’re prepared for because of what we have been challenged with in the regular season and in the SEC Tournament." It's not only SEC teams that had a good first weekend in the NCAA Tournament. UConn remains the lone unbeaten in women's college basketball. The Huskies have won 52 straight games, including a dominant 53-point win over Syracuse in the second round. UConn has reached the Sweet 16 in 32 consecutive years. UConn will face North Carolina in the Sweet 16. The Tar Heels are one of four ACC teams still playing. The biggest surprise of the group is Virginia. The Cavaliers reached the regional semifinals for the first time in 26 years and became the first team to play in the First Four and get this far. They needed double overtime to knock off Iowa and advance. [March Madness: The 5 Longest Winning Streaks in Women's College Basketball History] The SEC isn't the only conference that will have teams facing each other in the Sweet 16
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The Sweet 16 will have a definite SEC feel with six teams advancing from that conference to the second weekend of March Madness. Top seeds South Carolina and Texas cruised into the regional semifinals of the women's NCAA Tournament and are joined by No. 2 seeds Vanderbilt and LSU, No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 5 Kentucky. "I think it’s a great sign for the conference. You can’t really control if it’s spread out or not," Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph said. "But you know how we feel about the SEC conference. It’s the best conference in the country. If you want to win a championship, you’re going to have to come through us, so it’s not a surprise to me that we’re seeing that many teams in. We’ll see. Hopefully we’ll continue to be one of them." Both of the 1-seeds will have all-SEC matchups, with the Gamecocks facing the Sooners — the lone team to beat them in the regular season during conference play. "Our league prepares us for this level of play," South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. "There isn’t an opponent out there that we don’t feel like we’re prepared for because of what we have been challenged with in the regular season and in the SEC Tournament." It's not only SEC teams that had a good first weekend in the NCAA Tournament. UConn remains the lone unbeaten in women's college basketball. The Huskies have won 52 straight games, including a dominant 53-point win over Syracuse in the second round. UConn has reached the Sweet 16 in 32 consecutive years. UConn will face North Carolina in the Sweet 16. The Tar Heels are one of four ACC teams still playing. The biggest surprise of the group is Virginia. The Cavaliers reached the regional semifinals for the first time in 26 years and became the first team to play in the First Four and get this far. They needed double overtime to knock off Iowa and advance. [March Madness: The 5 Longest Winning Streaks in Women's College Basketball History] The SEC isn't the only conference that will have teams facing each other in the Sweet 16
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