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Missouri beats South Carolina: What we learned from the biggest upset of the women’s college basketball season

Unranked Missouri stunned No. 1 South Carolina on Thursday with a 70-69 overtime victory. It marked the Gamecocks’ first loss of the 2021-22 women’s college basketball season, and ended their 43-game win streak against unranked opponents, which was the longest active streak in Division I.

Junior guard Lauren Hansen hit the winning layup with 0.1 seconds left in the extra period to lift Missouri to its first victory over the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25. And the Tigers did it without Aijha Blackwell (16.6 PPG, 12.7 RPG), their leading scorer and the SEC’s top rebounder, who is in the COVID-19 protocols. Read More

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