UConn is again on best of girls’s basketball, successful its twelfth nationwide championship by way of routing protecting champion South Carolina 82-59 on Sunday, finishing a nine-year identify drought for the workforce.
Azzi Fudd led the Huskies with 24 issues whilst Sarah Sturdy added 24 issues and 15 rebounds. Paige Bueckers had 17 issues in her ultimate recreation at UConn (37-3).
Bueckers capped her stellar occupation with the Huskies’ first championship since 2016 – the longest for trainer Geno Auriemma for the reason that workforce received its first championship in 1995 led by way of Rebecca Lobo.
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Since then the Huskies have had dominant championship runs, together with within the early 2000s led by way of Sue Fowl and Diana Taurasi, 2009-10 with Maya Moore and in the end the 4 instantly from 2013-16 with Breanna Stewart. All have been in attendance in Florida on Sunday to look the Huskies’ newest identify.
Crack of dawn Staley’s South Carolina workforce was once making an attempt for a 3rd identify in 4 years and fourth total. It could have tied her with Kim Mulkey for third-most in the back of Auriemma and previous Tennessee Corridor of Reputation trainer Pat Summitt, who had 8.
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