ACC: North Carolina State (29-3)
N.C. State earned its third straight ACC title Sunday with a 60-47 victory over Miami, ending off a run by way of the convention that noticed the Wolfpack lose only one ACC recreation all season. N.C. State was ranked by the choice committee final week because the No. 3 total seed within the NCAA tournament heading into this previous weekend. Sunday’s win ought to cement the Wolfpack’s standing as a No. 1 seed. N.C. State has superior to the Sweet 16 in every of the previous three NCAA tournaments.
Atlantic 10: Massachusetts (26-6)
Last season, U-Mass. made a run to the A-10 championship recreation as a 7-seed however misplaced within the closing. This time round, the Minutewomen completed the job, incomes a No. 3 seed within the convention tournament and beating top-seeded Dayton, 62-56, Sunday to earn this system’s first A-10 title. A-10 participant of the 12 months Sam Breen leads U-Mass. into its first NCAA tournament since 1998.
Big South: Longwood (21-11)
Longwood males’s and women’s groups had fairly the weekend, with each groups incomes their first NCAA tourmanent bids Sunday. The second-seeded Lancers women’s staff annihilated top-seeded Campbell, 86-47, within the title recreation. The Lancers are led by junior guard Kyla McMakin, who’s averaging 18.3 factors per recreation in her profession and who grew to become the quickest participant in class historical past to achieve 1,000 factors (54 video games) final March.
Guard Caitlin Clark — the nation’s chief in factors and assists — was named the 2022 Big Ten participant of the 12 months final week. On Sunday, she helped lead the Hawkeyes to a 74-67 victory over Indiana within the convention championship recreation, sealing this system’s second Big Ten Title in 4 seasons. Clark scored 78 factors in three tournament video games, together with 41 in a semifinal win over Nebraska, and was named the tournament’s most excellent participant.
Ohio Valley: Belmont (22-7)
The Bruins are returning to the large dance after profitable their sixth Ohio Valley title in seven seasons Saturday. As a No. 12 seed within the NCAA tournament final 12 months, they upset No. 5 Gonzaga for this system’s first tournament win. This 12 months, Belmont has a chance to construct on that achievement with an skilled roster that features sophomore guard Destinee Wells, who leads the staff with 16.5 factors per recreation.
The defending nationwide champions beat Utah within the Pac-12 title recreation, 73-48, Sunday, incomes the Cardinal its fifteenth Pac-12 tournament crown in 21 makes an attempt; no different staff has gained greater than two. The Cardinal is led by Pac-12 participant of the 12 months Haley Jones — the 2021 NCAA tournament’s most excellent participant — and Pac-12 defensive participant of the 12 months Cameron Brink. The Cardinal returns 4 of its 5 starters from final 12 months’s championship staff.
The Wildcats pulled off an unbelievable run to the SEC title, profitable 4 video games because the No. 7 seed, together with three in opposition to the league’s high three seeds. In the championship recreation Sunday in opposition to top-seeded and top-ranked South Carolina, Kentucky overcame a 12-point deficit heading into the fourth quarter to win, 64-62. The Wildcats are led by Rhyne Howard, an all-American a 12 months in the past who’s projected to be one of many first gamers chosen on this 12 months’s WNBA draft. Kentucky enters the NCAA tournament having gained 10 video games in a row.
Mercer’s dominance within the Southern Conference continued Sunday, when the Bears earned their fourth straight NCAA tournament bid. Mercer trailed by one at halftime of the championship recreation however gained, 73-54, after outscoring Furman by 20 within the second half, together with 30-4 within the third quarter. Mercer options the convention’s freshman of the 12 months (Erin Houpt) and two first-team all-conference gamers (Amoria Neal-Tysor and Shannon Titus). Titus was additionally the convention’s defensive participant of the 12 months.
Upcoming convention championship video games:
Monday: Sun Belt (2 p.m.), Big East (8 p.m.)
Tuesday: Horizon (Noon), Summit (2 p.m.), West Coast (4 p.m.)
Wednesday: Mountain West (10 p.m.)
Thursday: American (9 p.m.)
Friday: Big Sky (3 p.m.), America East (5 p.m.)
Saturday: Mid-American (11 a.m.), Metro Atlantic (11 a.m.), Southwestern (2:30 p.m.), Atlantic Sun (3 p.m.), Mid-Eastern (3:30 p.m.), Western (5 p.m.), Ivy (5 p.m.), Conference USA (6 p.m.), Big West (8 p.m.)
Sunday: Northeast (Noon), Patriot (Noon), Colonial (1 p.m.), Southland (2 p.m.), Big 12 (2 p.m.), Missouri Valley (2 p.m.)
