Pac-12 Player of the Year Alissa Pili finished with 33 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists.
The talent is more spread out than it was even a decade ago, lower seeds are springing upsets early in the NCAA Tournament, and new teams are contending for Final Fours and national championships, not just the Connecticuts, Tennessees, Notre Dames, and Baylors.
The University of Utah, the No. 2 seed in Greenville Regional 2 and hosting an NCAA Tournament for the first time in a decade, overwhelmed 15th-seeded Gardner-Webb for long stretches before closing out the Bulldogs, 103-77, to advance to Sunday’s second round in consecutive seasons for time the first time since 2005 and 2006.
Utah committed 18 turnovers, many of them unforced, so there will be enough for head coach Lynne Roberts to make whatever points she needs to make to her team ahead of Sunday, but all of that was overshadowed by the dominance of Alissa Pili. The Pac-12 Player of the Year finished with a career-high 33 points on just 17 shots to go along with eight rebounds, and eight assists.
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