SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Courtnay Pilypaitis catapulted Vermont to its first NCAA win and the initial upset of the women's tournament.

Pilypaitis scored 25 points, May Kotsopoulos added 14 and Vermont survived squandering a 14-point lead in the first half to beat seventh-seed Wisconsin 64-55 on Sunday, the Catamounts' first NCAA victory in six tries.

The 10th-seeded Catamounts (27-6) bucked the trend of the top seed winning in this year's tournament by overcoming missing their first nine shots of the second half. The better seeds didn't lose on the opening day of the tournament for only the third time since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1994.

Wisconsin (21-11) opened the second half on a 12-0 run to go ahead 37-33.

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