There are a number of Canadian girls with sights set on leaving their imprint at March Insanity.
The NCAA girls’s basketball event begins Wednesday with two First 4 video games, adopted by 32 first-round video games on Friday and Saturday. The Ultimate 4 will probably be in Cleveland, Ohio on April 5, with the title sport being on April 7.
The Canadian Press takes a take a look at 5 Canadian gamers to observe within the girls’s NCAA event.
Aaliyah Edwards, College of Connecticut
Edwards got here off a stellar junior season in 2022-23 – incomes AP third workforce all-American honours — and adopted it up with an excellent higher senior 12 months in 2023-24. The six-foot-three ahead from Kingston, Ont., averaged profession highs of 17.8 factors and 9.3 rebounds for the Huskies, main UConn to a 29-5 report and the Tenth spot within the AP Prime 25 rankings. The projected first-round decide within the upcoming WNBA draft and junior star guard Paige Bueckers have paired as much as mix for 39.1 of UConn’s 80.8 factors per sport. Edwards, nonetheless, missed the final two video games of the Huge East event, which UConn received, resulting from a damaged nostril in opposition to Windfall within the quarterfinals on March 9. However she is predicted again for the NCAA event because the third seed within the Portland 3 Area performs 14th-seeded Jackson State on Saturday.
Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga
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The six-foot-one senior ahead from Calgary has loved a profession season in 2023-24, boasting profession highs of 19.8 factors and eight.5 rebounds for the Bulldogs. She led Gonzaga to a 30-3 report, with the sixteenth spot within the AP Prime 25 rankings and is a top-five finalist for the Katrina McClain Award, offered to the NCAA girls’s basketball energy ahead of the 12 months, alongside Edwards. Ejim was additionally named the West Coast Convention participant of the 12 months. The Bulldogs maintain the fourth seed within the Portland 4 Area and can face thirteenth seed UC Irvine on Saturday.
Gonzaga ahead Yvonne Ejim controls the ball in the course of the second half of an NCAA faculty basketball sport in opposition to Stanford, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Spokane, Wash.
AP Photograph/Younger Kwak
Merissah Russell, Louisville
The six-foot senior guard out of Ottawa performs a bench function for the Cardinals, averaging career-bests of 4.9 factors and a couple of.5 rebounds in 17.4 minutes per sport. Russell and the Cardinals made all of it the way in which to the Elite Eight ultimately 12 months’s event, falling to celebrity Caitlin Clark and Iowa. Louisville — which completed with a 24-9 report and sat twenty third in the latest AP Prime 25 rankings — holds the sixth seed within the Albany 2 Area and can face Eleventh-seeded Center Tennessee on Friday.
Louisville guard Merissah Russell performs in opposition to Washington throughout an NCAA basketball sport on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, in Louisville, Ky.
AP Photograph/John Amis
Kennedy Dickie, Portland
The fifth-year senior ahead out of Kelowna, B.C., averaged a strong 10.5 factors and 5.5 rebounds for the Pilots, who enter the event because the WCC champions. Dickie scored 16 factors in serving to Portland upset Gonzaga 67-66 within the event ultimate final Tuesday. The Pilots have gone 21-12 and presently are the thirteenth seed within the Albany 2 Area. They are going to face fourth-seeded Kansas State on Friday.
Stanford guard Lexie Hull (12) dribbles previous Japanese Washington ahead Kennedy Dickie (12) in the course of the first half of an NCAA faculty basketball sport Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Stanford, Calif.
AP Photograph/Tony Avelar
Emma Koabel, Duke
Koabel performed a small function off the bench in her sophomore season, showing in 31 video games and solely beginning one after being in simply 4 video games as a freshman in 2022-23. The Port Colborne, Ont., native averaged 3.2 factors in 12.3 minutes per sport. Duke is the seventh seed within the Portland 3 Area and faces Tenth-seeded Richmond on Friday.
South Carolina’s Tessa Johnson (5) drives previous South Carolina’s Chloe Kitts, left, and Duke’s Emma Koabel (15) in the course of the first half of an NCAA faculty basketball sport in Durham, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023.
AP Photograph/Ben McKeown
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