For the first time in 14 seasons, Stanford will not advance to the round of 16 in the N.C.A.A. women’s tournament.
Eighth-seeded Mississippi ousted Stanford, a No. 1 seed, on Sunday night, 54-49, in a game in which the Rebels smothered a college basketball juggernaut with a physical defense that forced one of Stanford’s worst shooting games of the season.
Stanford is the first No. 1 seed not to advance to the round of 16 in the women’s tournament since Duke lost to Michigan State in the round of 32 in 2009.
“This is for the people with $1 and a dream,” Mississippi Coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said in a teary television interview after the win.