NCAA Women’s Tournament: UConn, Belmont, Princeton Advance

Jackson State entered the game with a tie for the longest active win streak in Division I women’s basketball. The team competed against Baylor, then coached by Kim Mulkey as well, in last year’s tournament — a possible explanation for how effective their game plan was.

Jackson State’s 3-point shooting, specifically four timely 3-point baskets from junior Miya Crump, kept Jackson State in the game, but it was the inside effort of Southwestern Conference Player of the Year Ameshya Williams-Holliday that gave Jackson State its advantage through much of the fourth quarter.

Sharp guard play from Louisiana State, particularly Jailin Cherry, who had a career high 24 points, helped the team crawl back just in time — and delayed one particular women’s tournament milestone.

No. 11 Princeton stuns Kentucky, the Southeastern Conference champion.

For the third time in N.C.A.A. women’s tournament history, an Ivy League team has won a game. For the second time, that team is Princeton.

The Tigers managed a win for the first time since 2015 as a No. 11 seed, despite competing against a nominally formidable opponent: a sixth-seeded Kentucky team that had just upset the best team in the country, South Carolina, to win the Southeastern Conference tournament.

The Tigers took over early in their game on Saturday, though, thanks in large part to the fearless play of senior guard Abby Meyers, who finished with 29 points. Meyers and her fellow guard Kaitlyn Chen set the pace, executing graceful fakes and muscling past a Kentucky team that seemed to be perennially looking for foul calls that never came.

Rhyne Howard, Kentucky’s best player and a projected first-round W.N.B.A. draft pick, tried to respond but her efforts were futile. She made just 4 of her 14 attempts from the field, and along with her teammates looked generally bewildered by the Tigers’ defense. Dre’una Edwards, who hit the buzzer-beater shot that won Kentucky its conference title, finished the game with 16 points and 12 rebounds.