For the second year in a row, the team that LSU eliminated in the previous NCAA Tournament came back to eliminate them the following season.
No. 1 overall seed UCLA (34-2) got its revenge over LSU (31-6) from last season’s Sweet 16 and beat LSU 72-65 in the Elite 8 to advance to its first ever Final Four in program history. Just like last season, LSU came up one game shy of the program’s seventh Final Four.
Offense was hard to come by for either side. UCLA shot 38 percent from the floor, and LSU wasn’t much better at 37 percent.