Kentucky women's basketball routed by Texas in March Madness Sweet 16
Kenny Brooks' Kentucky Wildcats were no match for the Texas Longhorns in an NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 women's basketball game in Fort Worth, Texas.
FORT WORTH, TX — Possession after possession for Texas in Saturday's first half ended in the same manner for Kentucky women's basketball . Hanging heads. Slumped shoulders.
A mix of frustration and resignation across the faces of players and coaches. Taking down the top-seeded Longhorns always was going to be an arduous undertaking for the No. 5-seed Wildcats .
Doubly so given this NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 contest was held at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, just hours from the Longhorns' Austin campus. The highlight for UK occurred on its opening possession: Amelia Hassett swished a 3 to give the lower seed a 3-0 lead in front of the heavily partisan "neutral-site" crowd. Then, UT ripped off a 15-0 run and that was all she wrote.
Kentucky never drew within single digits again as its season ended in a 76-54 defeat. Exactly where the Wildcats (25-11) went wrong Saturday isn't hard to solve. There were multiple areas: They had twice as many turnovers (24) as assists (12); the Longhorns, by comparison, had 22 assists to 16 giveaways.