Respect to the Bruins after coming up short in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16, but the Tigers continue to elevate women’s basketball whether you like it or not
UCLA’s Charisma Osborne drives around LSU’s Hailey Van Lith during the fourth quarter of a Sweet Sixteen game during the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. And it might not be favorable. Shoot, odds are it isn’t. But odds are you know who she is.
On Saturday, she coached a Sweet 16 game against No. 2 seed UCLA. Her third-seeded Tigers out-executed the Bruins down the stretchat MVP Arena, where most of the sold-out crowd was there to see Caitlin Clark and Iowa knock out Colorado 89-68 afterward.rematch. A sequel of last season’s NCAA women’s basketball championship game. It drew a record 9.9 million viewers and was, as far as I can think, the biggest women’s sports moment in America since the U.S.
Their head-to-head games in L.A. drew a record 10,657 at Galen Center and a women’s record 13,659 fans at Pauley Pavilion in some part because of the groundwork laid by Iowa and LSU – women’s basketball is aAnd now, with a couple more Pac-12 schools out of the way, LSU and Iowa are going to tango again Monday in an Elite Eight matchup that feels a lot like it should be a Final Four matchup – much like how UCLA’s entanglement with LSU also felt like it coulda been.
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