No. 16 seed Missouri State (23-12), which has won at least one game in each of its last four NCAA tournament appearances, plays top-seeded Texas in the Round of 64 on Friday.<\/p>\n
Missouri State shot 48% (33-of-69) and outrebounded SFA 50-30 to overcome 19 turnovers, which the Ladyjacks converted into 22 points.<\/p>\n
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Sign up now to play the #1 Women’s bracket game for FREE! $125,000 in prizes. Stephen F. Austin (25-10) has lost eight consecutive NCAA tournament games since a 73-72 first-round win over Xavier in 2000.<\/p>\n Missouri State used a 9-0 run to take the lead for good late in the first half. Angel Scott<\/a> capped the spurt with a 3-pointer that made it 45-37 with 1:55 to go in the second quarter.<\/p>\n Ashlyn Traylor-Walker<\/a> scored 23 points and Aziyah Farrier<\/a> had 13 points and nine rebounds, three blocks and two steals for SFA. Harmanie Dominguez<\/a> hit three 3-pointers and finished with nine points. Dominguez extended her program record for single-season 3s made to 100 — third most in Division I this season.<\/p>\n Maiesha Washington<\/a> scored 18 points, Kendal Brueggen<\/a> had 13 points and nine rebounds and Faith Lee<\/a> added 10 points for the Lady Bears.<\/p>\n Scott, who finished with three points, played two seasons for the Ladyjacks, helping them advance to the 2022 NCAA tournament and the 2023 WNIT.<\/p>\n The Lady Bears are in the Big Dance for the 18th time and first since 2022, when they beat Florida State 61-50 in the First Four before losing 63-56 to Ohio State in the Round of 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 18, 2026, 11:48 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Kaemyn Bekemeier had 22 points and 13 rebounds on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-211096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e0287a8a-2121-43c5-a4c9-c76b065f7d75.jpeg\")
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