Oregon was simply helpless against Madison Booker. Texas\u2019 three-time All-American forward did anything she wanted as she scored a career-high 40 points in a…<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas(AP) \u2014 Oregon was simply helpless against Madison Booker.<\/p>\n
Texas’ three-time All-American<\/a> forward did anything she wanted as she scored a career-high 40 points in a rollicking 100-58 win<\/a> over Oregon on Sunday that earned the No. 1-seeded Longhorns a trip to the Sweet 16<\/a> for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n Drive for layups? Easy. Her go-to mid-range jumper? Breezy. Step out for 3-pointers? Swish.<\/p>\n Booker set a Texas school record for most points in an NCAA Tournament game. <\/p>\n It’s still 10 points shy of the overall tournament record of 50 set by Drake’s Lorri Bauman<\/a> in 1982. But give her time. She’s got at least one more game coming up in Fort Worth, and if the Longhorns are going to play for their first national championship in 40 years, she could get four more.<\/p>\n Booker carried the Longhorns to the Elite Eight as a freshman and to Final Four last season.<\/p>\n \u201cShe’s a generational talent,\u201d Texas coach Vic Schaefer said. <\/p>\n And an unselfish one. Schaefer often has to tell his star player to go get her shot instead of making the extra pass to a teammate.<\/p>\n \u201cI want her to hunt to go get a bucket,\u201d Schaefer said.<\/p>\n That side of her is emerging now that it’s time to start collecting trophies.<\/p>\n Booker came in to the tournament averaging 18.9 points. She set her previous career high of 31 just a couple of weeks ago against Mississippi in the Southeastern Conference tournament, which Texas won.<\/p>\n The previous Texas tournament scoring record of 32 was set by Clarissa Davis in 1986 and Heather Schreiber in 2003. The 1986 team won the national title. The 2003 team made the Final Four.<\/p>\n \u201cCoach Schaefer has pushed me into taking a big role, being aggressive on the offensive end,\u201d Booker said. <\/p>\n She was dominant from the start against Oregon, scoring 14 points in the first quarter. Bookers’ final stat line included 14-of-21 shooting, eight rebounds, five assists, two steals and no turnovers.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never seen that. I\u2019d like to see it again,\u201d Texas senior guard Rori Harmon said. \u201cI saw the look in her eyes when she came in. I saw something special coming today.\u201d<\/p>\n AP March Madness bracket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ncaa-womens-bracket<\/a> and coverage: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/march-madness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon was simply helpless against Madison Booker. Texas\u2019 three-time All-American forward did anything she wanted as she scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-217764","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\/217764","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=217764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}