Huskies Women’s Team into the Sweet 16 After Shocking Upset
By Ben Renner
The Huskies women’s team beat behemoth Maryland 74-65 last night in the NCAA Tournament to advance to the Sweet 16.
Don’t worry, Huskies fans, you can still come over from watching the mediocre men’s team all season to watch the women, who completed one of the greatest upsets in women’s college basketball history last night with a 74-65 win over Maryland.
Maryland came into the National Tournament 30-4 and the second seed. They played the Huskies last night in front of their fans in College Park, Maryland and fell to the seventh-seeded Washington squad.
The Huskies’ Kelsey Plum was a woman on a mission from God last night. Plum scored 32 points on just 8 for 24 shooting. But she went 13 of 14 from the free throw line. Talia Walton also scored 20 for the Huskies.
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The Huskies interior defense, anchored by Chantel Osahor, kept the Terrapins’ dynamic duo in the paint, Brionna Jones and Malina Howard, to just eight points combined. Osahor also scored nine points and collected 14 rebounds for the Huskies.
Maryland was the fifth-ranked team in the country and the NCAA Tournament’s number-2 seed. The Terps had appeared in the last two Final Fours. They are the two-time defending champions of the Big Ten. The Huskies fell behind early but stormed the Terps after halftime, going on a 20-8 run in the third quarter.
The Husky women will face Kentucky next on Friday on the Wildcats’ homecourt. They will have to play without sixth woman Mathilde Gilling, who left last night’s game on a stretcher with a knee injury. Gilling was Huskies coach Mike Neighbors’ only substitute off the bench for Washington during the final half of the season.
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Don’t worry, college basketball is not over, and with your bracket likely cooked, maybe it’s time to switch it over to the women’s side to see if the Huskies can pull off another incredible upset.