{"id":69606,"date":"2026-03-21T00:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/womens-march-madness-roundup-baylor-rally-past-nebraska-on-chalky-day-one\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:56:37","slug":"womens-march-madness-roundup-baylor-rally-past-nebraska-on-chalky-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/womens-march-madness-roundup-baylor-rally-past-nebraska-on-chalky-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s March Madness roundup: Baylor rally past Nebraska on chalky day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Better seeds go 16-0 on Friday as chalk prevails<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Baylor erase nine-point fourth-quarter deficit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>LSU, Texas and TCU roll in dominant openers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taliah Scott scored 15 points and Baylor rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter, making 11 of 14 free throws down the stretch, to beat Nebraska 67-62 on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>After leading 19-11 after the first quarter, the sixth-seeded Bears (25-8) went cold and were down 50-41 with 9:33 to play in their March Madness opener. Baylor then turned up the full-court press and forced six turnovers by Nebraska in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/womens-ncaa-tournament-first-round-upsets-scores-recaps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better seeds go 16-0 on Friday as chalk prevails Baylor erase nine-point fourth-quarter deficit LSU, Texas and TCU roll in dominant openers Taliah Scott scored 15 points and Baylor rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter, making 11 of 14 free throws down the stretch, to beat Nebraska 67-62 on Friday in the &#8230; <a title=\"Women\u2019s March Madness roundup: Baylor rally past Nebraska on chalky day one\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/womens-march-madness-roundup-baylor-rally-past-nebraska-on-chalky-day-one\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Women\u2019s March Madness roundup: Baylor rally past Nebraska on chalky day one\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}