The University of Connecticut and Stanford University — two legendary women's college basketball teams — are meeting at the NCAA women's Final Four Friday ...
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Williams is the first Husky to win the award. UConn missed its first couple of 3-pointers, but both came with plenty of space between the shooter and the defender. Stanford is outscoring UConn in the paint 18-4. Azzi Fudd also picked up a second foul, so she will likely take to the bench for a bit. UConn is shooting 35% and Stanford 37%, although Stanford really picked it up in the second quarter. Behind the scenes, she’s not only a leader, but known as ‘Mama Westbrook’ because she’s known to take care of the players. We’ll see if it limits her at all in the second half. Williams, a senior, has been a standout in the postseason and solid all year. Geno Auriemma said in the first quarter he wanted his post players to attack the basket. She looks to be in a bit of pain, but chances are she has little interest in coming out. Paige Bueckers led the Huskies with 14 points, while Evina Westbrook scored 12, including three 3-pointers in the first half. UConn is headed back to the national championship for the first time since 2016.
The Huskies and Cardinal are competitors, not adversaries, according to Tara VanDerveer.
UConn’s trip to Minneapolis for the Final Four is a homecoming of sorts on two fronts. If that happens, it would also snap the Huskies’ longest championship drought since they won their first in 1995. But they haven’t met since the 2017-18 opener — a bizarre neutral-site contest in Columbus, Ohio of all places. “(The series) didn’t get renewed,” Auriemma said. They play hard, they play together, they play positionless most of the time, they shoot the ball great every year. Both coaches seemed to push the onus onto the other to set something up. Could a future series be in the works? “Geno likes to kind of get in little battles with people. The Cardinal are led by Tara VanDerveer, who owns the third-highest winning percentage of any coach against Auriemma (38.9) and is the only women’s coach with more victories than him. At the same time, those rivalries were also famous for everything that happened off the court. After Pat Summitt abruptly ended the series in 2007, Notre Dame became the Huskies’ archenemy. For over 20 years, UConn’s rivalries dominated the sport of women’s basketball.
This weekend, the three most successful NCAA college basketball coaches take to the sidelines hoping to guide their teams to a championship.
The No. 1 Stanford Cardinal and No. 2 UConn Huskies will meet in the second NCAA women's basketball Final Four semifinal on Friday night (9:30 p.m. ET on ...
That year, UConn won a fourth straight NCAA title. * Stanford women’s basketball team arrives in Minneapolis as the defending NCAA champion. UConn will face South Carolina in Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship game. The Huskies defeat Stanford with a final score of 63-58. “We’re taking the right shots, we’ve just got to hit,” Stanford’s Haley Jones tells ESPN’s Holly Rowe before heading to the locker room. Throughout the game, On Her Turf provided live updates and highlights.
Evina Westbrook scored nine points on three 3-pointers to pace UConn in the first half...
Westbrook, who transferred to UConn from Tennessee, also had five rebounds and one assist in 15 minutes. Westbrook converted 3 of 5 3-point attempts for a team-high nine points as UConn took a 27-26 lead into halftime. UConn's Evina Westbrook grabs a ball in front of Stanford's Francesca Belibi during the first half of a college basketball game in the semifinal round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament Friday, April 1, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
On Friday, (1) Stanford women's basketball fell to (2) UConn in the Final Four by a final score of 63-58.
The women's team wore Stanford Nike soccer shirts during warmups ahead of Friday night's Final Four game against UConn.
This isn’t the first time that the Stanford players have worn the warmups to honor Meyer. The team also wore the shirts prior to its game against Oregon State in the Pac-12 tournament on March 3. The Cardinal finished the regular season with a 32–3 record and take the court on Friday night against the Huskies looking to advance to Sunday night’s national championship game to defend their title. Stanford players donned Nike soccer shirts that were customized for the school to honor the memory of Meyer during pre-game warmups.