{"id":838485,"date":"2025-04-02T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/texas-women-make-first-final-four-since-2003-after-beating-tcu\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:11:49","slug":"texas-women-make-first-final-four-since-2003-after-beating-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/texas-women-make-first-final-four-since-2003-after-beating-tcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas women make first Final Four since 2003 after beating TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball <\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_99889626\">\n<p>The Texas women&#8217;s basketball team hasn&#8217;t been to the Final Four since 2003. In that season, as the No. 5 seed, they lost to the No. 1-seeded UConn Huskies and legendary head coach Geno Auriemma.<\/p>\n<p>Uconn went on to win the NCAA Championship over Tennessee, but the Lady Longhorns were so close.<\/p>\n<p>Close doesn&#8217;t count in March Madness, but Texas is one step closer to redeeming that loss to UConn from the 2002-03 season after beating TCU 58-47 in the Elite Eight on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore forward Madison Booker led the way for the Longhorns with 18 points, six rebounds, two assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ac_99889628\">\n<p>Senior guard Rori Harmon pitched in with 13 points, five assists and two steals, while junior forward Kyla Oldacre came off the bench for nine points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>This now sets up a No. 1 versus No. 1 matchup with the defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks on Friday, April 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball_w\/articles\/texas_women_make_first_final_four_since_2003_after_beating_tcu\/s1_13132_41985790\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Luz Grisby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball The Texas women&#8217;s basketball team hasn&#8217;t been to the Final Four since 2003. In that season, as the No. 5 seed, they lost to the No. 1-seeded UConn Huskies and legendary head coach Geno Auriemma. Uconn went on to win the NCAA Championship over Tennessee, but the Lady Longhorns were so close. Close doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,3681,836,999],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-838485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-basketball","9":"category-texas","10":"category-women","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}