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The NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament once again is proving to be more exciting than the men's tournament this year.
Unlike the men's tournament, a true Cinderella team has just advanced to the Sweet 16.
Kymora Johnson scored 28 points as 10th-seeded Virginia became the first First Four to reach the regional semifinals after an 83-75 double-overtime win over No. 2 seed Iowa on Monday in a women’s NCAA Tournament second-round game.
The payout should they win it all: $100,000 for every $100 bet. And those are the current odds.
The Cavaliers (22-11) won three games in five days, defeating Arizona State 57-55 in Thursday’s First Four game, following that with an 82-73 overtime win over Georgia in Saturday’s first-round game, and then the Hawkeyes (27-7), who were playing in front of a sellout home crowd of 14,332.
“We were just so resilient in this game,” Virginia coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton said. “Iowa is a really good team. They’re a 2 seed for a reason. No matter what they threw at us, we just did not get rattled. We just believed that we were going to win this game before it even started. Every time they punched, we punched back, stayed poised.”
- Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com
