Women's NCAA tournament 2022 - Five questions from Baylor's second-round loss to South Dakota

Eight days ago, the Baylor Bears looked to be one win away from a No. 1 seed in the 2022 women's NCAA tournament. Now, their season is over. The 10th-seeded South Dakota Coyotes beat Baylor 61-47 on Sunday, dominating wire to wire to advance to their first Sweet 16. Baylor, the second No. 2 seed of the day to lose on its home court, had appeared in 12 consecutive regional semifinals.

Coupled with Creighton's upset of Iowa earlier Sunday, the Sweet 16 will include at least two double-digit seeds for the first time since 2018, when Central Michigan and Buffalo made the trip as 11-seeds. This also marks the first time since 2016 that a pair of top-two seeds went out in the first two rounds (Arizona State and Maryland). This year's eight wins by double-digit seeds in the first two rounds ties the NCAA tournament mark previously set in 2018.

What happened in Waco, Texas? How did South Dakota hold Baylor's offense — which averaged the eighth-most points per game in the country — to its lowest total of the season? How did the Coyotes pull off the shocker and end Baylor's streak of 68 consecutive home wins against nonconference opponents?

The looks on the Baylor players' faces in the last minute of South Dakota's upset said it all. They stood alone, separated on the court, staring into space, expressionless. It was clear none of them saw this coming. And perhaps that was the problem. The Bears didn't look prepared to play against this smart, veteran South Dakota team, and they never adjusted. Or they couldn't. South Dakota was that good, and it has yet to trail in its two wins.

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In the first seven minutes of the game, Baylor had