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What's next for OU women's basketball after hitting familiar wall in Sweet 16 exit?

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Oklahoma women's basketball fell to South Carolina in the Sweet 16 round of March Madness, highlighting the gap between OU and top-tier programs.

SACRAMENTO, CA — It took less than three minutes to understand what Saturday afternoon inside Golden 1 Center was going to become. South Carolina struck with precision. Ta’Niyah Latson banked in a fadeaway on the opening possession.

Less than a minute later, she buried a 3. Raven Johnson slipped free for an easy layup. Then came three free throws.

Just like that, it was 10-0. “They just punched first, honestly,” senior guard Payton Verhulst said outside the locker room. “And when a team like South Carolina does that, when a team is that good, it’s hard to dig back.

” There was no excavation. Not against this version of South Carolina. Not on this stage.

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