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NCAA Women's Capsules

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) - Brittney Griner became the second woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game Tuesday night, slamming one down with her right hand early in the second half of top-seeded Baylor's 76-57 win over ninth-seeded Florida.

Novosel leads Irish women to victory

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Notre Dame stayed cool at halftime. No big speeches needed. The top-seeded Irish knew they were in a struggle with a good team and had to do something to get themselves and their home crowd into the game.

Scoring woes foil WVU in loss to Stanford

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A yearlong problem came back to burn West Virginia in the NCAA tournament.

Stanford could land 3 top picks in 3 drafts

STANFORD (AP) - Andrew Luck is set to become the NFL's No. 1 draft pick next month. Stanford pitcher Mark Appel is the likely first choice in June's amateur baseball draft. That's already figuring to be quite a feat for the school.

NCAA Women's Tournament Capsules

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Bria Hartley scored 13 of her 16 points in the first half and top-seeded Connecticut set a women's NCAA tournament record for fewest points allowed in a 72-26 victory over Kansas State on Monday night.

Top seed Michigan St holds off Saint Louis

Cal women hang on to beat Iowa in opening of NCAA tournament

Fresno women fall to Georgetown in NCAAs

MHS grad Navarro named PCSC Player of the Week

Manteca High graduate Marissa Navarro is leaving quite the mark in her final season for Sacramento State's softball team.

Kentucky ends season on top of AP poll

Even after a week in which the top four teams lost, The Associated Press' final poll looks a lot like it did for the last two months of the season.

Baylor No. 1 in final AP women's poll

Princeton coach Courtney Banghart couldn't wait to tell her players. The Tigers became the first Ivy League team to enter The Associated Press women's college basketball poll, coming in at No. 24 on Monday. "It's so special to know what these kids have done," she said. "To earn this very prestigious opportunity is remarkable. It's a testament to their work ethic, goals. It's all the things that are right about college athletics." In the season's ...

Kentucky, Syracuse, N. Carolina, MSU get top seeds

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Kentucky, Syracuse, N. Carolina, MSU get top seeds

This time around, the madness began before the brackets even came out.

UCSB wins Big West opener

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - UC Santa Barbara got 15 points from its season scoring leader, Orlando Johnson, and took a big step toward winning its third straight Big West title with a 72-52 victory over Pacific on Thursday in the opening round of the conference tournament at the Honda Center.

Cal holds off Stanford in Pac-12 quarters

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jorge Gutierrez saw a simple theme in California's three straight awful halves of basketball against Stanford over the past five days. The Golden Bears were so concerned about their postseason destination that they had forgotten to enjoy the journey.