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Beau Dure

NCAA women’s Final Four: UCLA 51-44 Texas; South Carolina 62-48 UConn – as it happened

Gabriela Jaquez and Kiki Rice celebrate during their win over Texas.
UCLA will face South Carolina for the national championship. Photograph: Sarah Stier/Getty Images

On paper, South Carolina would be favored in the final. They beat an unbeaten and nearly unbeatable team convincingly. But as we’ve seen tonight, when you get the very best teams together in a competitive cauldron, what bubbles to the surface remains to be seen.

Until then …

Last bit on Auriemma – in the postgame interviews, Auriemma said he doesn’t regret what he said in his in-game interview about the officials, noting that he had a player change her jersey after it was ripped. But that player, Sarah Strong, ripped her own shirt. Incongruity.

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