Natasha Mack poured in 27 points in her NCAA Tournament debut, leading the eighth-seeded Cowgirls past the ninth-Demon Deacons 84-61.
Just seconds into the second quarter, freshman guard Neferatali Notoa dialed up a long ball to break the 15-15 tie, and the Cowgirls never looked back. That 3 spurned a 9-0 run that was capped by Mack’s 1,000 point as a Cowgirl.
OSU built a 10-point by the midway point of the second, and Wake Forest only cut it to single digits once after that. The Cowgirls took a 42-29 lead into the half. And then it got ugly.