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Tonight caps off Geno Auriemma’s 40th season as UConn’s head coach — and he’s doing it on the biggest stage.
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Bueckers capped her stellar career with the Huskies’ first championship since 2016, ending a nine-year drought for the team.
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UConn is back on top of women’s basketball, winning its 12th national championship by routing defending champion South Carolina 82-59.
Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and Sarah Strong lead the way in a dominant victory over the defending champion Gamecocks, securing the Huskies’ 12th women’s basketball championship.
The UConn star was named the 2025 Final Four Most Outstanding Player following her 24-point performance in the national championship win over South Carolina. Fudd added 5 rebounds and 3 steals, capping a dominant title game that helped seal the Huskies’ 12th NCAA championship — and first since 2016.
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TAMPA, Fla. — After UConn crushed South Carolina on Sunday to win another national championship, women’s college basketball can turn its attention to a court drastically different but no less important than the hardwood at Amalie Arena.
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Though it enters Sunday’s NCAA Tournament championship game against UConn as an underdog, South Carolina has been the standard in women’s college basketball over the past several years, the leader that the other programs across the Division I level often find themselves chasing.
UConn women's basketball won an NCAA record 12th national championship by defeating South Carolina at the Amalie Arena in Tampa.