3 Texas teams in women's NCAA Tournament feature these former Texas high school basketball stars
The 68-team women's NCAA Tournament field was released Sunday, cementing the brackets for March Madness 2024.
Three teams from Texas featuring 16 former Texas high school girls basketball players were included in the field. The first round spans Friday and Saturday, the second round is Sunday and Monday
The 2023 Big 12 Player of the Year Rori Harmon suffered a season-ending ACL injury in December, but 6-seeded Texas still has eight more former Texas high school basketball standouts on its roster.
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Rice, a 14-seed, has six players, led by former Mansfield Timberview standout Destiny Jackson, and Baylor has one, former Irving MacArthur standout Sarah Andrews, who is averaging 11.1 points per game.
Here are the three Texas college teams in the field and the 16 former Texas high school basketball standouts among them:
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TEXAS (9)
Taylor Jones, a center, led Dallas Christian to two state titles and finished with more than 2,000 career points.
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Seed: 1; First round: Against 16-seed Drexel.
Rori Harmon, Cypress Creek High School, guard, jr.
DeYona Gaston, Pearland High School, forward, sr.
Tionna Herron, DeSoto High School, center, fr.
Shay Holle, Austin Westlake High school, guard, sr.
Amina Muhammad, DeSoto High School, forward, soph.
Gisella Maul, Cedar Park High School, guard, fr.
Sarah Graves, Keller, guard, soph.
Taylor Jones, Dallas Christian School, forward, sr.
Abbie Boutilier, Flower Mound High School, center, fr.
*Vic Scheafer, Houston Lutheran High School, head coach
*Sydney Carter, DeSoto High School, Dir. of Player Development
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BAYLOR (1)
Baylor guard Sarah Andrews (right) was named 6A District 6 MVP at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, rising to become the nation's No. 2 rated point guard as a senior.
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Seed: 5; First round: Against 12-seed play-in winner (Vanberbilt/Columbia).
Sarah Andrews, Irving MacArthur High School, guard, sr.
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RICE (6)
Destiny Jackson was a standout guard at Mansfield Timberview and played in two UIL state title games.
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Seed: 14; First round: Against 3-seed LSU.
Destiny Jackson, Mansfield Timberview High School, guard, gr.
Layla Conley, San Antonio Harlan High School, guard, fr.
Hailey Adams, San Antonio Clark High School, guard, r-fr.
Jazzy Owens-Barnett, Frisco-Liberty High School, guard, soph.
Fatou Samb, Houston Westside High School, center, sr.
Shelby Hayes, Cedar Park High School, center, soph.
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*Member of a coaching staff with Texas high school basketball ties.
-- Andy Buhler | andy@scorebooklive.com | @sblivetx
