Clara Strack scored 16 points, but fifth-seeded Kentucky fell to top-seeded Texas 76-54 on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the 2026 NCAA Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n
Asia Boone had 11 points for the Cats, while Teonni Key had 10 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
Turnovers played a big part in the game. UK committed 24 of them, leading to 26 Texas points. The Longhorns committed 16 turnover, but the Cats would only turn those into eight points.<\/p>\n
Kentucky got on the board first when Amelia Hassett hit a three, but the Longhorns responded by scoring the next 15 points to establish a double-digit lead. A Key bucket stopped the streak and got the Cats within 10 points, 15-5. After a Texas bucket, Kaelyn Carroll scored to cut the deficit to 17-7.<\/p>\n
Texas would go on a 6-2 run to lead 23-9 before Key scored again. The Longhorns scored the final six points of the quarter and led 29-11.<\/p>\n
Key made two free throws to start the second-quarter scoring, but Texas scored the next four to lead 29-13. A Tonie Morgan layup cut the deficit to 18 but Texas hit a three to lead 36-15. Clara Strack scored at the rim to get UK within 19. After a UT free throw, Morgan scored to cut the deficit to 37-19. However, Texas scored the next four.<\/p>\n
Boone hit a three but the Longhorns again six in a row. Strack would hit a pair of free throws and a basket late, but Texas took a 48-26 lead into the half.<\/p>\n
Texas scored first in the third quarter, but Strack hit a three to cut the deficit to 50-29. Both teams cooled off from there, as they combined to miss 11 straight shots. That ended on a Morgan layup that cut the deficit to 51-31. However, Texas scored just 18 seconds later to lead by 22.<\/p>\n
From there, the Cats would try to fight their way back, but were only able to get as close as 20 and the Longhorns would lead 63-42 through three periods.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns scored the first two points of the fourth quarter, but UK answered with threes from Strack and Boone to cut the deficit to 65-48 with 7:36 remaining. Boone banked in a jumper to cut the deficit to 15, but Texas scored the next seven points to put the game away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Strack scored 16 points, but fifth-seeded Kentucky fell to top-seeded Texas 76-54 on Saturday in the Sweet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1492,1532,27,29,28,22811],"class_list":["post-225024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-featured","tag-headlines","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-women-s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225024","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=225024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}