NCAA Women Narrow The Field To 32, All Four Top Seeds Roll

What America missed in the women’s round of 64 this weekend, because there was boysketball on at the same time:
• Not a lot in the way of shockers, and certainly nothing in the vein of the first and third days of the men’s tourney. Lots of the big score disparities you frequently find in women’s college hoops, and four top seeds who (unsurprisingly) absolutely rolled their opponents.
• Zero upsets in Saturday’s games. The closest score, much to the pride of the seeding committee, was No. 8 Dayton beating No. 9 TCU by a bare point, 67-66. The biggest scoreboard disparity was Duke’s doing, with the No. 2 She-Devils hammering 15th-seeded Hampton 72-37.
• Sunday, things got interesting. 6th-seeded Vandy needed overtime to eke out an 83-76 victory over DePaul. In the way of actual upsets, we had No. 10 Vermont over No. 7 Wisconsin, 64-55; No. 11 Arkansas-Little Rock over No. 6 Georgia Tech, 63-53; No. 12 Wisconsin-Green Bay, the first Horizon League team to earn an at-large bid over No. 5 UVA, 69-67; and No. 11 San Diego State embarrassing 6th-seeded Texas, 74-63, in Austin. (Not a great year for Longhorns in postseason sports.)
• You may have heard about this basketball team they’ve got up in Connecticut. The Lady Huskies ... “rolled” doesn’t quite begin to cover it when you outscore your opponents 95-39. Better luck (in landing out of UConn’s region) next year, Southern. Geno Auriemma had his squad’s fearsome depth on fine display, with only one player cracking 30 minutes on the court. Five UConn women scored in the double digits; Maya Moore and Tina Charles both went past 20 points.
The second round begins tonight with No. 1 Tennessee facing No. 8 Dayton on the Lady Vols’ home court in Knoxville. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:06, and will be followed by Duke-LSU, St. John’s-Florida State, and Michigan State-kentucky in the first wave of games. For more on this first game, see Rocky Top Talk’s open thread, and for fine coverage of other tourney goings-on, visit SB Nation’s Swish Appeal.