{"id":234291,"date":"2026-04-04T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:52:08","slug":"live-updates-for-ncaa-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234291\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates for NCAA Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014\u00a0On Friday evening at the Mortgage Matchup Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/womens-basketball\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas women&#8217;s basketball<\/a> and UCLA will battle in the Final Four round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA and Texas are\u00a0respectively the No. 2 and No. 3 overall seeds in the NCAA Tournament. UCLA (35-1) has beaten California Baptist, Oklahoma State, Minnesota and Duke over the past two weeks\u00a0by an average of 27 points. The margin of victory for Texas (35-3) in its tournament triumphs against\u00a0Missouri State, Oregon, Kentucky and Michigan has been 142 points.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this game will play either UConn or South Carolina in Sunday&#8217;s NCAA championship game. Texas last reached the national championship game in 1986. UCLA has never played for a title.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along for live updates.<\/p>\n<p>This section will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>This section will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>This section will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>When: 8:30 p.m. CT Friday<\/p>\n<p>Where: Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Ariz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014\u00a0On Friday evening at the Mortgage Matchup Center, Texas women&#8217;s basketball and UCLA will battle in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74833,27,29,537,5276,28,9228,792,13548],"class_list":{"0":"post-234291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ncaa-women-s-basketball-tournament","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-longhorns","12":"tag-texas-longhorns-women-s-basketball","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-ttp-live-blog","15":"tag-ucla-bruins","16":"tag-women-s-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234291","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=234291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}