Uconn Routs UCLA in Final Four female to create a championship match with the southern Carolina
TAMPA, Fla. – Paige Bueckers came to Uconn to win a national championship. The Senior Guard of the Star clarified that it is its goal.
Sunday afternoon, he will have the opportunity to do this.
The n. 2 Uconn performed the absolute seed in the gym on Friday evening in the second final of the night matchup with an 85-51 victory that remains the Huskies at the match match. Carolina del Sud beat Texas 74-57 At the beginning of the evening, organize a showdown between Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley’s Teams Sunday.
The Huskies had an advantage of 20 points that entered the interval, the stress on the face of the coach of the UCLA chori chorose evident while the Bruins headed towards the locker room. And in the end, the UCLA had no answers.
The attacker Sarah strongly the X-Factor for a Uconn team who asked for a large part of his real serial number-he recited again for the Huskies, ending with 22 points out of 9 out of 13 shooting from the field and eight rebounds. He emptied 3S, going 4 out of 6 from depth, as well as holding it for the huskies at the bottom. In the middle of the fourth quarter, when he designed one and one to extend Uconn’s advantage to 25 points, she and Bueckers have Blump, their evident excitement on their faces. It was over and they had to know.
The Azzi Fudd graduate guard, who scored only eight points in Uconn’s eight elite victory against the USC, was equally dominant. He finished the night with 19 points (all in the first half) with the shooting of 7 out of 12 from the field. Bueckers – whose mid -range game continued to be his bread and butter – marked 16 points to follow five rebounds and two assists. Nobody was more impressive than a touch in transition to protect Kaitlyn Chen late in the first half, bringing Uconn fans standing while the momentum oscillated further in the direction of the Huskies.
Huskies who hurry up, we love to see him
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– Uconn women’s basketball (@uconnwbb) April 5, 2025
In the meantime, the UCLA has shot the ball over 19 times. The defense of the Huskies stood on the center of Star 6-Foot-7 Lauren Betts, although it was still able to end up with 26 points on a shot of 11 out of 18 from the field. The problem? He had no help. After shooting 41.7 percent from beyond the arch against the LSU in the Eight elite, the UCLA became frozen from the deep on Friday, ending up with a sign of 25 percent. In the middle of the third quarter, the Bruins were shooting only 14 percent in the night, continuing to feed Betts to see if they could make something happen.
With the victory, Uconn now turns his attention to the Gamecocks, who have no problems overcoming Texas with the Longhorns star Madison Booker in a disturbance in advance.
South Carolina is looking for her third national championship in the last four years and its second consecutive, trying to become the first team from the 2015 and 2016 teams of Uconn to repeat. Stley won his first title in 2017 and managed to push the Gamecocks into the game of the title, despite not having a low post-to-to-down as in the past in A’ja Wilson, Aliyah Boston and Kamilla Cardoso.
Uconn is looking for his twelfth national championship under Auriemma and first since 2016. Above all, this is the possibility of Bueckers to finally get what he came for. The injuries put it aside for 19 games as in the second year and a torn ACL forced her to miss all her junior season. Having already confirmed that he will declare for the draft Wnba at the beginning of this season, this is his last crack to the title that wants so much.
The two teams played at the beginning of this season, in the South Carolina in mid -February. The Huskies won 87-58 to take the winning series of the South Carolina at home and deliver the Staley crew its largest loss of the season with a margin of 14 points.
The advice is set for 15:00 et at Amalie Arena.
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