The first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament are complete and the field has been trimmed from 64 down to 16 with play set to resume on Friday.

Before the Sweet 16 gets underway, lets take a look back at the first four days of action and see how some of the top senior WNBA prospects performed.

1. Top Seeds Dominate

The Sweet 16 is comprised of all four No. 1 seeds, all four No. 2 seeds, one No. 3 seed, three No. 4 seeds, two No. 6 seeds and the Cinderella No. 11 seed.

Not only did every No. 1 seed advance, they all did so in dominant fashion. Take a look at these average margins of victory: No. 1 Baylor (48), No. 1 Mississippi State (40.5), No. 1 Notre Dame (35) and No. 1 Louisville (28).

No. 1 Baylor (Kalani Brown)

The tournament’s No. 1 overall seed played as such in the opening rounds as they put away No. 16 Abilene Christian (95-38) and No. 8 California (102-63) with relative ease. Kalani Brown looked the part of a top prospect in both games. She dominated Abilene Christian with 17 points and 11 boards in just 18 minutes of work. In the second round, against another great center in Cal’s Kristine Anigwe, Brown finished with 8 points, 8 rebounds and 5 blocks and helped hold Anigwe in check as Baylor raced past the Bears and into their 11th straight Sweet 16.

No. 1 Louisville (Asia Durr)

Louisville opened the tournament without point guard Arica Carter (injury) and coach Jeff Walz (suspension), but had no problem getting past Robert Morris. Asia Durr and fellow senior Sam Fuehring each scored 19 points to lead the way and outscore the Colonials by themselves (38-34).The Cardinals faced a tougher test in the second round with No. 8 Michigan, but a quick start from Durr (12 points in the first quarter) helped Louisville separate early and never look back. Durr finished with 24 points and 5 assists, but didn’t have the greatest shooting night (9-23 FG, 5-14 3P).

No. 1 Notre Dame (Arike Ogunbowale, Jessica Shepard, Brianna Turner, Marina Mabrey)

The Irish took care of business with wins over Bethune-Cookman (92-50) and Michigan State (91-63) in the first two rounds. Arike Ogunbowale scored 23 points in each contest and eclipsed the 2,500-point mark for her career against the Spartans. Ogunbowale is already Notre Dame’s all-time leading scorer – she surpassed Skylar Diggins (2,357) earlier this season. But Arike isn’t the only Irish player setting team records as Brianna Turner collected 20 rebounds in the first two games to eclipse Ruth Riley as Notre Dame’s all-time leading rebounder (1,010 and counting).

Jessica Shepard fell one rebound shy of posting double-doubles in both games, while Marina Mabrey pushed her way through a hyperextended knee and scored just two points on the weekend on 1-of-9 shooting (0-of-7 from three), but led the team in assists with 11. Notre Dame is back in the Sweet 16 for the 10th straight year (17th appearance overall). Monday’s win was No. 996 in the program’s history; the Irish need four more wins to successfully defend their title and hit the 1,000 wins mark at the same time.

No. 1 Mississippi State (Teaira McCowan, Anriel Howard)

The Bulldogs began their quest to get back to the national championship game (and win it for the first time) with a pair of big wins over Southern (103-46) and Clemson (85-61). The Mississippi State frontline of Teaira McCowan and Anriel Howard were simply too much of either team to handle as both prospects posted double-doubles in both teams to reach the Sweet 16. McCowan had 22 points and 16 boards, while Howard had 23 points and 12 boards in the opening round win over Southern.  In the second round against Clemson, it was McCowan’s turn to take the scoring lead as she dropped 30 points to go with 11 rebounds and 6 blocks, while Howard added 21 points, 14 boards and 3 blocks of her own. McCowan shot 14-17 against Clemson after going 7-11 against Southern for a combined 21-28 (75.0%) in the first two games.

2. All Four No. 2s Move On

While there were some upsets along the way, the top eight seeds in the tournament all advanced to the Sweet 16, so the chalk was safe for the No. 1s and No. 2s.  The No. 3s not so much as NC State was the only No. 3 seed to make it past the second round. While No. 2s UConn and Oregon both posted average wins of 30.5 points in the opening rounds, Stanford (17) and Iowa (10.5) each had a game decided by single digits, with Iowa surviving an upset bid by No. 15 Mercer in the first round as the Hawkeyes prevailed 66-61.

No. 2 Connecticut (Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson)

UConn posted the highest scoring game of the tournament so far as they dropped 110 points on Towson in the opening round. That blowout win was followed by a grind-it-out win over Buffalo that saw the Huskies prevail by 12 points; it was UConn’s closest second-round game since 1999 when they beat Xavier by two points. In both games it was senior Napheesa Collier that led the way as she had 23 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 blocks and 2 steals against Towson and followed that up with a near triple-double as she finished with 27 points, 16 boards, 8 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals and shot 12-of-15 from the floor against Buffalo. Collier has been solid all season long but has stepped her game up in the second half of the season and that has carried over to the NCAA tournament.

Samuelson, who returned from back spasms that forced her to miss the American Athletic Conference tournament, had 11 points on 4-of-12 shooting (1-of-6 from three) against Towson in her first game back, while adding a team-high 6 assists and 5 rebounds in 22 minutes. She played all 40 minutes against Buffalo and had a better shooting night as she finished with 17 points on 4-of-7 shooting (3-of-5from deep, 8-of-10 from the free throw line) to go with 9 boards and 4 assists.

No. 2 Iowa (Megan Gustafson)

After surviving the upset scare from Mercer, Iowa defeated Missouri to advance to its second Sweet 16 in the past five years. Megan Gustafson – the nation’s leading scorer at 28.0 per game – was brilliant in the first two rounds, posting a pair of double-doubles and averaging 27.0 points and 17.5 rebounds per game. The Hawkeyes rank 14th in scoring offense this season, averaging 79.1 points per game, but averaged just 67 in their first two tournament games. Up next they face an NC State team that allowed just 60.4 points per game this season.

No. 2 Stanford (Alanna Smith)

The Cardinal are back in the Sweet 16 for the 12th straight year and senior forward Alanna Smith led the way in wins over UC Davis (79-54) and BYU (72-63).  Smith had 21 points in just 21 minutes against Davis as she shot 9-of-14 from the field and 3-of-5 from beyond the arc, while adding seven boards. In the second round against BYU, Smith and the Cardinal got off to a slow start, as the team was outscored 15-11 in the opening quarter. Stanford outscored BYU 61-48 the rest of the way with Smith finishing with 23 points, 14 rebounds and three assists while shooting 9-of-16 from the field and 3-of-8 from distance. After taking out a No. 7 seed in the second round, the Cardinal will face No. 11 seed Missouri State in the round of 16 after the Lady Bears upset No. 3 Iowa State.

No. 2 Oregon (Maite Cazorla)

The Ducks had no problems reaching the Sweet 16 for the third straight year as they dispatched Portland State (78-40) and Indiana (91-68) in the opening two rounds. Against the Hoosiers, Sabrina Ionescu recorded her 18th career triple-double (29 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds) to lead the way in what may have been her final home game if she chooses to relinquish her final year of eligibility and declare for the draft. One player that did wrap up her time at Matthew Knight Arena was senior Maite Cazorla, who did her usual bit of everything to help the Ducks succeed. In the two games, the 5-10 guard combined to score 16 points to go with 7 assists,  4 rebounds, 4 steals, two 3-pointers and a block.

No. 3 NC State (Kiara Leslie)

In the second round of last year’s tournament, Kiara Leslie put up 21 points and 11 rebounds in a win over Maryland to lead the Wolfpack to their first Sweet 16 appearance in 11 years. Fast forward one year and she had another brilliant performance to send NC State back to the Sweet 16 as she finished with 26 points and 10 rebounds against Kentucky on Monday. That was after Leslie had already posted 20 points and six boards in NC State’s opening round win over Maine. These were her eighth and ninth 20-point games of the season and they came at just the right time. Can she keep it going when the Wolfpack face Iowa this weekend?

3. Rounding Out The Field

No. 4 South Carolina (Alexis Jennings)

The Gamecocks are back in the Sweet 16 for the sixth straight season after picking up wins over Belmont (74-52) and Florida State (72-64) in the opening two rounds. Senior forward Alexis Jennings had 12 points, 9 boards and 2 blocks in the opening win over Belmont and followed that up with 16 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks against Florida State. She was the leading rebounder and second leading scorer in both games for the Gamecocks, who face a tall task in the next round against top-seeded Baylor.

No. 5 Arizona State (Kianna Ibis)

Arizona State is back in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015 after they knocked off host Miami in the second round with a 57-55 win on Sunday. Senior forward Kianna Ibis had 9 points and 3 rebounds in the win over the Hurricanes after posting a double-double (12 points, 10 rebounds, two blocks) in Arizona State’s win over UCF in the tournament opener. The Sun Devils averaged just 58.5 points in the first two rounds after averaging 66.3 points prior to the NCAA tournament. Up next, they will face top-seeded Mississippi State, who averaged 94 points in their first two wins of the tourney and allow just 57.7 per game on the season.

No. 6 UCLA (Kennedy Burke, Japreece Dean)

While top four seeds make up three-quarters of the Sweet 16 field, teams like No. 5 Arizona State, No. 6 South Dakota State, No. 11 Missouri State and No. 6 UCLA made sure to bust a few brackets over the first four days of tournament play. The Bruins earned their fourth straight trip to the Sweet 16 by knocking off No. 3 Maryland on their home court on Monday night. The Bruins enter the Sweet 16 battle tested as they were in a tie game with under four minutes to play in the opening round against Tennessee before prevailing 89-77 and had a back-and-forth affair with Maryland that had 11 ties and 11 lead changes. UCLA closed the game on an 11-4 run over the final 4:01, a run sparked by a putback from Kennedy Burke to tie the game at 76; the Bruins would not trail the rest of the way.

While sophomore Michaela Onyenwere led the way with 30 points, the senior duo of Burke (19 points, 11 rebounds) and Japreece Dean (22 points, five rebounds, five assists) helped the Bruins pull off the upset. A key stat in this game and to watch for when UCLA faces UConn in the Sweet 16 is offensive rebounds. The Bruins collected 27 offensive boards and converted them into 27 second-chance points.