No. 1 Texas cruises by No. 16 Missouri State<\/p>\n
Published 3:32 am Saturday, March 21, 2026<\/p>\n
Jordan Lee hit for 19 points and Madison Booker added 14 points and 12 rebounds as No. 1 Texas dispatched No. 16 Missouri State 87-45 on Friday afternoon in an NCAA Tournament first-round game in Austin.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns (32-3), the Southeastern Conference tournament champion, advance to play No. 8 Oregon. Texas set the tone early on by scoring the game\u2019s first 12 points and eventually leading 19-4 after the opening period. By halftime, the margin was 34 points as the Longhorns held Missouri State to just 12 points and 13.8% shooting (4 of 29) on its field goals in the first half.<\/p>\n
Kyla Oldacre contributed 15 points off the bench for the Longhorns in the victory while Bryanna Preston scored 10. Texas shot 50% from the floor, forced 19 turnovers that it used to score 28 points, outrebounded the Lady Bears 49-27 and scored 50 of its points in the paint.<\/p>\n
Missouri State (23-13), which beat Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday in a First Four game to earn a spot versus Texas, was led by Kaemyn Bekemeier\u2019s 14 points. Maiesha Washington and Lainie Douglas had 11 points each while Douglas took eight rebounds.<\/p>\n
No. 8 Oregon 70, No. 9 Virginia Tech 60<\/p>\n
Katie Fiso scored 22 points as the Ducks dominated the first and third quarters to outlast the Hokies in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n
Fiso made 9 of 12 shots, adding four assists, three rebounds and two blocks for Oregon (23-12), which outscored Virginia Tech 22-11 in the first quarter and 20-11 in the third. The Ducks got 13 points from Mia Jacobs as well as 11 points and 11 rebounds from Ehis Etute. They made 48.2% of their shots and held a 34-16 edge in paint points.<\/p>\n
Carys Baker paired 21 points with 14 boards for the Hokies (23-10). She made 8 of 15 field goals (53.3%) while the rest of the team was 13-of-51 shooting (25.5%). Leading scorer Carleigh Wenzel (15.3 points per game) scored nine on 2-of-12 shooting, including 0-for-5 from 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1 Texas cruises by No. 16 Missouri State Published 3:32 am Saturday, March 21, 2026 Jordan Lee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-214203","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\/214203","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=214203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}