TAMPA, Fla. — UConn is again on high of girls’s basketball, successful its twelfth nationwide championship by routing defending champion South Carolina 82-59 on Sunday behind Azzi Fudd‘s 24 points.
Sarah Strong added 24 points and 15 rebounds while Paige Bueckers had 17 points in her final game at UConn (37-3).
Bueckers capped her stellar career with the Huskies’ first championship since 2016, ending a nine-year title drought for the crew. That was longest for coach Geno Auriemma and his Huskies because the crew gained its first championship in 1995 led by Rebecca Lobo.
Since then the Huskies have had dominant championship runs, together with within the early 2000s led by Sue Fowl and Diana Taurasi, 2009-10 with Maya Moore and eventually the 4 straight from 2013-16 with Breanna Stewart. All had been in attendance in Florida on Sunday to see the Huskies’ newest title.
Daybreak Staley’s South Carolina crew was making an attempt for a 3rd title in 4 years and fourth general. It might have tied her with Kim Mulkey for third most behind Auriemma and former Tennessee Corridor of Fame coach Pat Summitt, who had eight.
