The Huskies face the NCAA Tournament's top overall team UCLA while No. 1 seeds Texas and South Carolina square off in the earlier matchup.

I don’t know how we get Sarah Strong, right?” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley joked earlier this year. “I don’t.”

Newcomers UCLA will face titans UConn in the Final Four while Dawn Staley's South Carolina Gamecocks are hoping to spoil Texas' best March Madness run in more than 20 years as the women's collegiate competition reaches a thrilling crescendo.

Bueckers has scored a total of 50 points across those two games, including 28 when UConn defeated USC in the Elite Eight last year to advance to the Final Four. Bueckers has also recorded a total of 13 rebounds and eight assists and has shot 44.4 percent from the field and 35.7 percent from 3-point range against the Trojans.

For the fifth straight season South Carolina women's basketball advanced to the Final Four, this year defeating Duke 54-50.

The No. 1 seeded Gamecocks are playing No. 2 Duke on Sunday in Birmingham. The State’s Michael Sauls and Chapel Fowler are on site providing live updates. If USC wins, it will advance to a fifth consecutive Final Four and keep its dreams of becoming the sport’s first repeat champion since 2013-16 UConn alive.