AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Madison Booker scored a career-high 40 points in a dazzling display of shot making and No. 1 Texas rolled past No. 8 Oregon 100-58 Sunday in the second round of the women\u2019s NCAA Tournament, sending the Longhorns back to the Sweet 16 for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns\u2019 three-time All-American was dominant from the opening tip as she created shots from all over the floor. She scored 19 in the first half, and her 3-point play early in the third quarter, when she muscled through and over three defenders for a layup, sparked a 19-4 run that turned the game into a rout.<\/p>\n
Booker\u2019s previous high was 31, set just a few weeks ago against Mississippi in the Southeastern Conference tournament.<\/p>\n
Texas (33-3) ran its home win streak to 44. A No. 1 seed for the third year in a row, the Longhorns now head to Fort Worth in a bid to return to the Final Four for the second consecutive season. They will play the winner of Monday\u2019s matchup between No. 4 West Virginia (28-6) and No. 5 Kentucky (24-10).<\/p>\n
Katie Fiso scored 16 points to lead Oregon (23-13), which last made the Sweet 16 in 2021.<\/p>\n
The Ducks simply had no answer for the big, strong and versatile Booker and her shot-making and ball handling against any defender, or two, they threw at her.<\/p>\n
Oregon kept up for a while with 9-of-11 shooting in the first quarter. Booker, meanwhile, was doing just about anything she wanted from short, middle and long range. Texas pushed the lead to 44-29 in the second on Aaliyah Crumps\u2019 3-pointer from the left wing.<\/p>\n
Oregon was still within 11 points at halftime. Booker led the Longhorns out of the break with the third-quarter burst that quickly settled the outcome. Texas outscored Oregon 28-8 in the quarter.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Longhorns will face either an SEC rival in Kentucky, or an old one from their previous conference, the Big 12, in West Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Madison Booker scored a career-high 40 points in a dazzling display of shot making and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,5278,48876,3112,769,537,15715],"class_list":{"0":"post-216395","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","11":"tag-madison-booker","12":"tag-march-madness","13":"tag-ncaa-tournament","14":"tag-oregon-ducks","15":"tag-texas-longhorns","16":"tag-womens-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216395","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=216395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}