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Texas 'Generational Talent' Booker Scores 40 in March Madness Rout of Oregon
Booker’s 40 points led Texas to a 100-58 win, extending their home streak to 44 games and securing a third straight Sweet 16 appearance.
- On Sunday, Madison Booker scored a career-high 40 points in Texas' 100-58 win over Oregon, advancing the team to the Sweet 16.
- Coach Vic Schaefer said he pushed Booker to be aggressive, and she embraced the role, entering the tournament averaging 18.9 points and having set a 31-point career high weeks ago.
- In the third quarter, Texas ran a 28-8 surge and entered the fourth up 73-42, with Madison Booker finishing 14-of-21 shooting, eight rebounds, five assists, two steals and no turnovers.
- The win extended the home win streak to 44 and the season record to 33-3, as Texas heads to Fort Worth to face Monday's winner.
- Booker's night also rewrote Texas' NCAA tournament record books by scoring 40 points, still 10 short of Lorri Bauman's 50-point NCAA record set in 1982.
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Texas 'generational talent' Booker scores 40 in March Madness rout of Oregon
Oregon was simply helpless against Madison Booker. Texas’ three-time All-American forward did anything she wanted as she scored a career-high 40 points in a rollicking 100-58 win over the Ducks on Sunday.
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Booker's 40-piece powers top-seeded Texas over Oregon, into Sweet 16
Junior forward Madison Booker poured in 40 points, scoring her career-high by the end of the third quarter, to lead the top-seeded Longhorns to a 100-58 win over eighth-seeded Oregon in the women's second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday at Moody Center.
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Booker's March Madness moment is career high 40 as No. 1 Texas rolls over Oregon 100-58 to Sweet 16
Madison Booker scored a career-high 40 points in a dazzling display of shot making, and No. 1 Texas rolled past No. 8 Oregon 100-58 Sunday in the second round of the women's NCAA Tournament.
·United States
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