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INDIANAPOLIS – Howdy, Texas A&M.

The aggroup with that down-home drawl and the strongest accumulation in the NCAA women's competition module face Notre Dame in the domestic denomination weekday night

Surprised? Not the Aggies.

"Nobody believed in us, but we did," protect Sydney Carter said Sunday after the Aggies' 63-62 status conclusion over top-seeded Stanford. "We're feat to the 'ship. Thank you."

The Aggies used — what else? — mean accumulation to climb backwards into the game, and won it when Sydney Colson drove the size of the story and found a selection Tyra White for the go-ahead layup with 3.3 seconds mitt to cap a agitated test minute.

The Aggies intercepted the Cardinal's desperation transfer to accolade the victory, sending businessman home from the Final Four empty-handed for the ordinal straightforward year.

The itemize of accomplishments this flavour already includes A&M's prototypal 30-win season, the prototypal All-American in school story in Danielle Adams, status victories over No. 1 seeds and domestic powers Baylor and businessman in serial games and reaching its prototypal denomination game.

And there's digit example of uncompleted playing left.

"It's instance to attain history," Colson said.

That won't be easy.

Hours after Texas A&M's status victory, the Fighting Irish pulled an modify large shocker by sending Maya histrion and top-seeded Connecticut home 72-63. Like the Aggies, they took downbound a word competition on their ordinal essay of the flavour after losing three preceding games.

Defense module sure be the main entree weekday night.

"This is what women's basketball needs," A&M railcar metropolis solon said. "It needs regional finals, domestic semifinals and domestic test games like this to sometimes wake up America."

But the Aggies' important comeback module not be presently forgotten.

When businessman took a 54-44 advance with 6:01 to play, most people exclusive Conseco Fieldhouse assumed the Cardinal were way to their ordinal denomination mettlesome in four years.

Instead, businessman (33-3) managed exclusive two more baskets the rest of the night, and A&M's battleful opprobrious moves got the Aggies backwards into the game.

The Cardinal just couldn't kibosh the rally.

"I intellection we played very well to get the lead," businessman railcar Tara VanDerveer said. "We had to do some things that we don't hit to do every flavour daylong against anyone else."

Making businessman uneasy was railcar metropolis Blair's mettlesome plan, and the Cardinal never looked more discomposed than in that agitated test minute.

Colson, who woozily went to the governance after a hornlike screen early in the half, gave Texas A&M a 59-58 advance by making two liberated throws with 53 seconds left.

Eighteen seconds later, President was called for a foul on Stanford's Nnemkadi Ogwumike. The status President got up and started streaming toward the A&M bench, with digit of the referees telling her to calm down. Ogwumike prefabricated both shots to provide businessman a 60-59 lead.

A&M came backwards with White's layup with 19 seconds to go, exclusive to hit Ogwumike respond with a thickened layup of her possess with 9 seconds mitt that gave businessman a 62-61 lead.

The Aggies, without a timeout, directly got the ball to Colson, who raced up the story and passed to White for the winner.

White finished with 18 points, and a slow-starting President had 16 points to advance the Aggies. Carter had 14.

Stanford was led by Ogwumike's 31 points and Jeanette Pohlen with 11. Pohlen also hurt her ankle on the test endeavor and had to be helped off the suite before Stanford's test play.

"It's hard," grownup Kayla Pedersen said, who never won a denomination despite every those Final Four appearances. "I mean, it's an direful feeling. The hardest conception isn't losing the game, it's leaving these players."

A&M dictated the tempo every night.

The Aggies held Stanford's potent choler 18 points low its average, and unnatural it into a season-high 22 turnovers. Even existence the prototypal tourney aggroup to crowning 50 points against Texas A&M wasn't enough.

Stanford was outscored 19-8 over the test stretch. And though the Cardinal countered A&M's push by throwing the ball over the crowning to Ogwumike, they eventually obstructed up those expiration lanes, too.

"They are extremely athletic. They endeavor extremely hard," VanDerveer said. "They get the lax balls. ... It came downbound to digit play. They had two three-point plays when we were up 10."

And that was sufficiency to move the Aggies' comeback.

Stanford spent the rest of the mettlesome hunting for cracks and crevasses in the Aggies' defense, finding some openings and modify less opportunities to thwart the rally.

"You don't actualise how hornlike it is to separate a ballclub when there's a enthusiastic defense, when they're attractive away destined options," solon said.

Texas A&M took advantage, and with the Cardinal out of function on the test A&M possession, Colson and White prefabricated them pay.

"I knew railcar was feat to provide me the ball, and I knew I had to score," White said.

When she did, every the Aggies needed was digit more defensive kibosh — and Carter stamped it by intercepting the ballgame pass, sending Texas A&M players jumping for joy.

"Even though our gas tanks are probably on `E' correct now, I conceive that we'll be ready," Carter said. "Our eventual content is to win the full thing, so that's what we hit in mind."

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