Another No. 1 falls as Indiana stunned by Miami

Entering Into the 2023 NCAA ladies’s basketball competition, none of the No. 1 seeds had actually shed in the very early rounds because 2009. Currently, it’s occurred on back-to-back evenings.

The Indiana Hoosiers, the front runner in the Greenville 2 Regional, were shocked Monday by the No. 9 Miami Hurricanes 70-68 at Simon Skjodt Setting Up Hall in the 2nd round. That adhered to the No. 1 seed Stanford Cardinal‘s 54-49 loss to the No. 8 Ole Miss Rebels on Sunday at Maples Structure in the Seattle 4 Regional.

Like the guys’s competition, the very early rounds finished with simply 2 No. 1 seeds proceeding. The NCAA ladies’s competition, which started in 1982, has actually had 2 No. 1 seeds shed prior to the Sugary food 16 in the exact same year simply one previous time: in 1998, when Stanford shed in the preliminary as well as the Texas Tech Lady Raiders shed in the 2nd round.

Miami remains in the Sugary food 16 for the very first time because 1992 as well as will certainly play 4-seed Villanova. Indiana, that made the Elite 8 in 2021, won the Large 10 regular-season champion for the very first time because 1983 this period. However the Hoosiers tracked throughout Monday’s loss to the Hurricanes, that won their first-round video game 62-61 over the Oklahoma State Cowgirls.

The leading 16 seeds host the very early rounds in the ladies’s competition, yet that does not stop distress. Last period, 2 No. 2 seeds, the Baylor Bears as well as Iowa Hawkeyes, shed in the 2nd round to the South Dakota Coyotes as well as Creighton Bluejays, specifically.

However there had actually not been a No. 1 seed autumn prior to the Sugary food 16 because the Duke Blue Devils shed to the Michigan State Spartans in the 2nd round in 2009.

The Hurricanes (21-12) were led by Lola Pendande‘s 19 factors. Indiana was led by 22 factors as well as 9 rebounds from Mackenzie Holmes.