Chloe Kitts scored 14 points and defending national champion South Carolina reached the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight year, beating Duke 54-50 on Sunday. Coach Dawn Staley’s top-seeded Gamecocks are two wins away from becoming the first team to repeat as champions since UConn won four straight from 2013-16.

With Sunday's Women's NCAA Tournament games now complete, half the Final Four field is set with No. 1 seeds South Carolina and UCLA moving onto the next round. South Carolina open

Madness continues Sunday with four more Elite Eight games in the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments. The women start things off, with defending champion South Carolina facing Duke. Then Lauren Betts and UCLA take on LSU at 3 p.

At least two No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of women’s NCAA Tournament . Two more could book trips to Tampa, Florida, on Monday. South Carolina kept its repeat championship hopes alive and reached its fifth straight Final Four with a grinding 54-50 win over Duke on Sunday.

It doesn't always look pretty, but South Carolina continues to rack up the wins in March. It almost feels inevitable even when the Gamecocks are trailing late in games.

Half of the women's Final Four is set after 1-seeds UCLA and South Carolina won in the regional finals Sunday.

South Carolina director of player development Freddy Ready has been with the program since 2002 and has a method to the celebratory net-cutting.

When South Carolina’s season was on the line Sunday, Dawn Staley went to Chloe Kitts. Duke had just air-balled a go-ahead 3-point attempt, and the Gamecocks had a 52-50 lead and the ball with seven seconds left in their NCAA Tournament Elite Eight game.

Kitts got to the line and nailed her sixth and seventh free throws of the game to give the Gamecocks a four-point lead in their women's NCAA Tournament regional final. “Coach (Dawn Staley) drew up the play and she said the ball was going to get to me,