Canada’s Aaliyah Edwards scored seven points and added six rebounds as UConn’s run to 12 points.
Paige Bueckers, national team player of the last season of the year, played 25 minutes, the most in six games since returning from a left knee injury that kept her out for more than two months. She led UConn with 12 points, five assists and four rebounds.
Christyn Williams had 13 points to lead the Huskies (26-5), leading the tournament with a win for the 28th Dorka Juhasz added 10 points and 9 rebounds.
The Huskies held Mercer to just 13 baskets on 56 shots (23 percent).
Mercer played a large portion of the game without leading contender Amoria Neal-Tysor (17 points per game), who struggled to get down on her left elbow as she drove into the basket in the second quarter and helped into the closet. She finished with four points and came out for the second half with her arm in a line.
Also Canada Browne, Indiana continues
Canada’s Kiandra Browne and Indiana Hoosiers are through as well.
Mackenzie Holmes scored 19 points to lead Indiana to an 85-51 victory over Charlotte on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Tournament. Browne had two points and three rebounds in the game.
Serving as hosts for the first time in the women’s tournament, the third-placed Hoosiers (23-8) used a 22-2 run over an almost six-minute stretch in the first half to open up the game. Alexa Gulbe shot the top five to make it 33-13 with 6:44 left in the half.
The lead never fell below 20 in the second half as Holmes scored 15 of their points after the break.
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5 Canadians are eliminated in the ladies tournament
Brittney Smith came off the bench to mark a career-high 26 points and lead the No. 7 seed UCF alongside state rival Florida 69-52 on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The Gators played the second half without Canadian center Faith Dut, who scored four points before going down just before the break, grabbing her right ankle and unable to put any weight on that leg. She came out on top for the second half at Krut.
Canadians Tara Wallack and Jessica Clarke Washington State Team were down 50-40 by No. 9 Kansas State.
A second-team AP All-America selection, Ayoka Lee rallied in the second half to lead the Wildcats (20-11) to their first tournament victory since 2017. Washington State Scheme.
Brylee Glenn added 14 points for Kansas State. Wallack had three points while Clarke finished with two points and two rebounds.
Canada’s Adebola Adeyeye was also sent off as the Buffalo Bulls lost 80-67 to the Tennessee Volunteers.
Alexus Dye scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Tennessee fourth-seeded No. 13 seed Buffalo finished perfectly to open an NCAA tournament at home.
Canadian Phillipina Kyei did not play in the fifth-ranked Oregon Ducks 73-70 defeat against No. 12 Belmont Bruins.
Caleb Houston, Michigan returns to Sweet 16
In the men’s tournament, Eli Brooks put Michigan ahead for good with a three-point game and delivered four critical points in the last minute, and the 11th seed Wolverines booked the most surprising of their five straight trips into the Sweet 16 by hitting No. 3 Som Tennessee 76-68 in second round game.
Brooks finished with 23 points, including a looping, improvised hookshot and two free throws as Michigan (19-14) threw away the volunteers, who had a six-point lead with 8 1/2 minutes left but then went four minutes without to mark. Their cold shooting continued until it was too late.
Providence earned 1st Sweet 16th place in 25 years
Three Canadians participated in the fourth-seeded Providence 79-51 victory over the 12th-ranked Richmond Spiders.
Cayo led the Spiders with 18 points on 9-of-11 shooting. The rest of the team was 12 for 42 (28.5 percent).
Noah Horchler scored 16 points and Providence had his best 3-point shooting performance of the season.
Canadian Ryan Nembhard, expelled Creighton from Kansas
Remy Martin scored 20 points, Ochai Agbaji put Kansas ahead for good with his first basket early in the second half, and the Jayhawks held off Creighton 79-72 on Saturday to advance to the Sweet 16 as well.
Creighton Ryan Nembhard, of Aurora, Ont., Was out of injury.
Martin did not lead the top-seeded Kansas (30-6) to mark the entire season as the fifth-year senior transfer from Arizona State suffered a painful knee injury, but he did make it to both NCAA tournament games.
The Shorthanded Bluejays (23-12) stayed behind with an uncharacteristically hot show from 3-point range. One of the worst teams in the country from across the arc, ninth-seeded Creighton went 12 of 28.
The biggest came from Freshman Trey Alexander, who pushed an off-balance heave from far behind the line as the shot clock was running out. Keyshawn Feazell’s bucket soon after got Creighton inside one in the final two minutes.
The Bluejays had a chance to advance in the last minute, but Alexander’s wrong pass went into the hands of Alex O’Connell, which led to an outburst of dunk for Agbaji, who scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half. shot.
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