“Getting through all the things we got through, we’re excited to win the COVID championship,“ VanDerveer said. It was the first women’s basketball championship for the Pac-12 since VanDerveer and Stanford won the title in 1992. That game was also played in the Alamodome — the site of every game in this tournament from the Sweet 16 through Sunday’s championship game. She guided the team to the WNIT title in 2019 and led them to their first NCAA title game ever. ... Notre Dame had the biggest comeback of any team in the NCAA title game rallying from 15 down to win the 2018 title on a last-second shot by Arike Ogunbowale.

Source: thestar April 05, 2021 00:27 UTC