Uconn Azzi Fudd (35) shoots against South Carolina striker Sanya Vien (20) during the first half of the national basketball championship match at NCAA College of Women on Sunday in Tampa, Florida.
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Tamba, Florida-Uconn returned to the women’s basketball summit, and won its twelfth national championship by directing the hero in South Carolina 82-59 on Sunday behind Azzi Fudd 24 points.
Sarah Strong added 24 points and 15 rebounds, while Paige Boker has achieved 17 points in her final match in Uconn (37-3).
The bouquers crowned its excellent career with the first Huskies championship since 2016, as it ended the drought of the title for nine years for the team. This was longer for coach Geno Orima and his technicians since the team won its first tournament in 1995 led by Rebecca Lubu.
Since then, Huskies has had a dominant championship, including in the early first decade of the twentieth century led by Soo Bird and Diana Torrasi, 2009-10 with Maya Moore and finally the four consecutive 2013-16 with Priyana Stewart. All of them were present in Florida on Sunday to watch the last Huskies title.
Finally, the first number expected in the WNBA draft was chosen on April 14, and the seeds were handed over to the Huskies team throughout the tournament season.
This was the only thing lost in her amazing career that was slowing down due to injuries. She was the first student to win the AP title a year before she lost many of her season in the second year with a plateau and tears of the arthropod. Then I tore the ACL before the next season.
Uconn closed the first half of 10 points and then put the game away in the third quarter behind Fudd, Strong and Puckers. The trio combined for 23 of 26 points for the team in the quarter. Uconn rose 50-39 with 3:21 left in the period before closing with 12-3 playing to put the game away.
Fudd and Strong started the matter with 3S consecutive, and the guidance was running. Auriemma subbed olition, fudd and strong exit with 1:32 left. The seeds and Urima had a long hug on the margin, after they finally got that championship that he wanted for.
The Dawn Staley team was trying to win a third title in four years and fourth in general. He would have tied her with Kim Molki to third place behind Orima and former Tennessee Celebrity Coal Cinema, Pat Sumit, who had eight.
Uconn has reached the title game only once during its dryness since 2016. The powerful structures were eliminated through losses at the end in the four -game screaming boxes. The appearance of the last Huskies game came in 2022 when the Staley team overcame the Uconn team to start the current Gamecocks for success, a game that ended the perfect Auriemma record in the title games.
It seems that there are no early nerves for any of the team as the game started a quick start. The teams traded the baskets during the first few minutes before the defenses began to decline. Huskies led 19-14 after a quarter of and then extended the feature to 36-26 in the half. Fudd was 13 points and Strong added eight points and 11 rebounds.