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Texas saw its season end with a 74-57 defeat against South Carolina. With the loss, Texas fell two wins shy of its first national title since 1986.

The South Carolina women's basketball team escaped a back-and-forth battle with No. 2 Duke in the Elite Eight on Sunday to advance to the Final Four for the fifth consecutive season. The defending national champions,

Dawn Staley and South Carolina women's basketball defeated Texas and can repeat as national champions on Sunday.

Texas (35-4), which reached its first Final Four since 2003, has taken powerful steps under Coach Vic Schaefer. However, the Longhorns had no answers for

Defending national champion South Carolina ripped Texas Friday before UConn routed UCLA to set up Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship matchup.

Three of four teams in the women’s Final Four are No. 1 seeds. None of the four have lost more than three games this season.