Texas women's basketball survived its Sweet 16 game against Tennessee and advanced to the Elite Eight to play old Big 12 foe TCU.
The Horned Frogs are led by the duo of senior guard Hailey Van Lith and center Sedona Prince. Van Lith scored 26 points in TCU's Sweet 16 game against Notre Dame and Prince scored 21.
But this will be more than a game between the former champs of the Big 12 and the current conference champion.
It will be the first time since Prince transferred that she will face her team from freshman year of college.
Here's more on the Central Texas star:
Sedona Prince's fallout with Texas
Prince was a McDonald's Freshman All-American and committed to play for the Longhorns after her time at Liberty Hill High School. She was sidelined her freshman season after suffering a lower right leg fracture Aug. 4, 2018 while competing for USA Basketball's U-18 Team at the Women’s Americas Championship in Mexico City.
Two days later, Prince had surgery and the next day she began rehab. By the end of August, with 80% of her body weight, Prince was running on a treadmill. When video of Prince running on social media was posted, Gina Wagner a retired physical therapist and former manager at the UT outpatient rehabilitation center, grew worried.
"That type of thing can put just a tremendous amount of strain on the surgical repair itself," she said in a Feb. 2021 ESPN article.
Problems persisted for Prince, who required a second surgery because her tibia failed to properly heal and part of a "cauliflower-shaped" callused bone in Prince's leg died and was infected. After the surgery, Prince became severely ill from the antibiotics she was on to kill the infection.
Medical care and "feeling unsafe" at Texas were part of the reason why Prince left, but the price of medical bills was the final straw. There was back and forth between her family and UT about the cost of medical bills that totaled nearly $28,000.
Prince transferred to Oregon the following year and transferred to TCU after the 2022 season.
Social media videos from NCAA Tournament
Nearly a year after COVID-19 shut down sports, the NCAA Tournament returned in 2021.
Prince shared on TikTok videos of the clear disparities in amenities between the men's and women's teams playing in the tournament. Many applauded Prince for using her platform to show the inequality between the two teams.
The post put more pressure on the NCAA, who created a "gender equity report" and how they market the women's tournament. ...
