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The 2025 NCAA women's basketball tournament continued on Sunday, with two of the four Elite Eight matchups in the books. South Carolina took down Duke by the score of 54-50 in the first contest, as head coach Dawn Staley's squad clinched a spot in the Final Four for the fifth consecutive season.
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The road to the Final Four for the 2025 women's NCAA Tournament has reached its conclusion. Eight teams will compete in the Elite Eight on Sunday and Monday for four spots in the Final Four next weekend.
When UCLA beat LSU 72-65 in the second Elite Eight game of Sunday's Women's March Madness schedule, it got the Bruins into the Final Four for the first time in program history. It also ended the longest recorded run of a perfect bracket in the men's or women's NCAA tournament.
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But by Monday night, after the second round of the women's NCAA tournament officially ended, only two were left.
Last year, there were only four brackets that remained perfect after the first two rounds of the women’s tournament.
UCLA, South Carolina and Texas — punched their tickets to the Final Four in Tampa Bay. UConn is the lone No. 2 seed to advance.