With its first regular seasonal conference championship in 31 years in hand, southern California will direct its attention to the Big Ten tournament.
He in second place The Trojans know that winning that the championship will be difficult.
“The Big Ten tournament is three games in three days against quality teams of the NCAA tournament,” said USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb in a telephone interview on Monday. “So it will be a challenge and there is no rest between the games.”
USC enters the tournament that leaves a Victoria over a rival and fourth classified On Saturday, that assured the crown of the regular season.
“Hopefully we are reaching its maximum point at the right time,” said Gottlieb. “We are in a great place.”
The Trojans open the game on Friday against the winner of the Oregon-Indian contest.
The Big Ten, like the other three main conferences, have their tournaments this week.
No. 5 South Carolina won a coins flip With Texas better classified to obtain seed number 1 in the SEC tournament after the two teams ended up tied at the top of the classification. NC State is the best ACC team with Notre number 6 give me the second seed. No. 8 TCU surpassed No. 17 Baylor on Sunday to win the Big 12 crown and win the best seed in that tournament.
While all these teams are locks for the NCAA tournament, this weekend is the final opportunity for some Bubble equipment To obtain quality victories to help them.
Columbia Kitty Henderson and Cecilia Collins players achieved an extremely rare feat last weekend when teammates had a triple-double. Henderson had his against Brown on Friday, while Collins had less than 24 hours later against Yale.
It is only the second time that two different players of the same school had triples elves in consecutive games according to statistics. Jackson State achieved the feat in 2003. Columbia has the opportunity to be alone in record books if a different player can do it on Saturday night when the lions face Cornell at their end of the regular season. A victory that day would also give Columbia his first Ivy League championship. The Lions shared the title in the last two seasons.
It is only the second and third in the history of the school. Henderson had 19 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists, four robberies and a turnover. The only other player in the last 25 years to have that same line of statistics in a game was his former teammate Kaitlyn Davis, who had the first double of Columbia, Triple Double.
The weekly of the NCAA Net classification – One of the tools used by the selection committee to determine the support of the NCAA tournament – remained constant with the 10 main ones that remained the same. UConn was the number 1 followed by South Carolina, Texas, Notre Dame and UCLA. The southern California, which is the second in the survey this week, was sixth.
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