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OU women's basketball vs South Carolina prediction, our pick for NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

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It’s the Oklahoma Sooners vs South Carolina Gamecocks in the March Madness bracket. Here’s our prediction for the 2026 Women's NCAA Tournament basketball game.

NORMAN — It'll be a rematch for Oklahoma women's basketball in the Sweet 16. The No. 4 seed Sooners (26-7) will meet No.

1 seed South Carolina (33-3) for the second time this season. But both teams have looked different since OU's overtime win on Jan. 22.

The Gamecocks cruised past their first two opponents in March Madness with a 103-34 defeat of No. 16 seed Southern and a 101-61 blowout win over No. 9 seed USC on Monday.

"It's not like we played this perfect game when we played South Carolina and it's not like they played a perfect game and we just got them," Sooners coach Jennie Baranczyk said Sunday. "That game was a long time ago. We're both different.