UConn star Azzi Fudd to miss 3-6 weeks after injuring right knee against Notre Dame Injury news is always tough. USA Today Sports Media Group · Dec 6, 2022
No. 7 Notre Dame women beat No. 3 UConn Maddy Westbeld had a season-high 17 points and nine rebounds for the Fighting Irish. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 5, 2022
What to know before No. 3 UConn Huskies vs. No. 9 Iowa Hawkeyes for the Phil Knight Legacy title A Top 10 matchup! USA Today Sports Media Group · Nov 27, 2022
Women’s Hoops Heat Check: Catching up with college contenders (UConn), pretenders (Tennessee) and stars (Angel Reese) Everything that's been happening in women's college basketball while you've been busy. USA Today Sports Media Group · Nov 23, 2022
UConn women’s basketball 2022-23 team by the numbers HARTFORD, Conn. — The UConn women’s basketball season is just around the corner. Fans and media will get their first glimpse at the 2022-23 Huskies in an exhibition game against Division II Kutztown this Sunday, followed by the season opener against Northeastern on Thursday night. Tribune News Service · Nov 4, 2022
UConn women’s basketball: Five storylines to watch with less than a month until start of 2022-23 season HARTFORD, Conn. — The wait is almost over. The UConn women’s basketball season officially starts in less than a month. Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022
UConn expecting Azzi Fudd to make big leap in her sophomore season HARTFORD, Conn. — Though she showed glimpses of greatness, Azzi Fudd didn’t feel at all like herself in her freshman season at UConn. The 5-foot-11 guard dealt with a foot injury all year which hampered her movement and limited her effectiveness. Tribune News Service · Oct 5, 2022
‘Show the world what we can do’: How UConn women’s basketball is regrouping for 2022-23 season following Paige Bueckers’ ACL tear STORRS, Conn. — Azzi Fudd’s stomach dropped as soon as Paige Bueckers called and told her the news in early August. The UConn star point guard had torn the ACL in her left knee. Tribune News Service · Sep 3, 2022
Dom Amore: ‘Assistant coach’ Paige Bueckers keeping positive, staying committed to her UConn women’s basketball family STORRS, Conn. — Paige Bueckers went up for a layup and came down hard, awkwardly. And she knew, as an athlete almost always knows when it is bad. She went to the training room and remembers her frustration poured out. Tribune News Service · Sep 2, 2022
11 Burning Offseason Questions Around Women’s Hoops From UConn’s outlook without Bueckers to whether South Carolina should be favored to repeat, we’re looking ahead to 2022–23. Sports Illustrated · Aug 8, 2022
Bueckers’s Injury Is a Crushing Blow to UConn and a Sport One season after the Huskies were hampered by injuries, their star is already back on the sidelines. Sports Illustrated · Aug 3, 2022
Former UConn women’s basketball stars share keys for Huskies to win national championship next season Diana Taurasi found herself having flashbacks to her playing days at UConn. Tribune News Service · Jun 7, 2022
Dom Amore: Geno Auriemma has the tools to get UConn back to the top next season MINNEAPOLIS — UConn women’s basketball has been muscled off the mountaintop. South Carolina, with its second championship in six years, looks down upon the rest of women’s basketball and does not figure to be descending any time soon. Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022
UConn’s journey to the NCAA championship game ended in disappointment, but the effort it took to get there was an accomplishment in itself MINNEAPOLIS — It had happened here before, at the Target Center, 27 years ago, for the UConn women’s basketball team. Tribune News Service · Apr 4, 2022
Sports Illustrated · Apr 4, 2022 After a Turbulent Year, UConn Left Still Chasing a Return to the Top The Huskies navigated an irregular season just to get to the title game, but their championship drought goes on.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 4, 2022 South Carolina Overpowers UConn From the Jump to Take Home Women’s Title Much like how they sat atop the rankings all season long, the Gamecocks dominated from start to finish Sunday to win the program’s second championship.
Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022 Dream teams: Final Four finishing with ‘best rivalry in women’s college basketball’ Maybe, somewhere in the back of their minds, their semifinal game having been won, there was hope in the South Carolina locker room for a rematch. You know, getting a shot at Stanford, the team that knocked it from the Final Four last year.
Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022 Chip Scoggins: Paige Bueckers’ wait for championship moment included downtime with close friends MINNEAPOLIS — Paige Bueckers was devastated and confused and having a hard time processing that her high school basketball career was over, one game shy of what was supposed to be her coronation.
Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022 Is UConn vs. South Carolina ‘the best rivalry in women’s college basketball?’ MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe, somewhere in the back of their minds, their semifinal game having been won, there was hope in the South Carolina locker room for a rematch. You know, getting a shot at Stanford, the team that knocked it from the Final Four last year.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 2, 2022 UConn Seniors Grind Past Stanford to Take Huskies to Championship Game On a night when the Huskies’ top players didn’t play their best, they still knocked off the defending champs.
Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2022 Paige Bueckers helps UConn take down Stanford, advance to title game MINNEAPOLIS — The game might not have gone according to plan, but for the thousands of fans who cheered Paige Bueckers' every move, it went to script.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 29, 2022 Paige Bueckers Takes Over As UConn Holds Off NC State in an Instant Classic The star guard was making shot after shot in the double-overtime marathon outing as the Huskies secured their 14th straight Final Four appearance.
Tribune News Service · Mar 3, 2022 Dom Amore: How Geno Auriemma flipped the switches to guide the UConn women through his most complicated season ever Geno Auriemma sits at the intermission of the 2021-22 UConn women’s basketball season, the couple of days between a tumultuous regular season and the postseason that will determine how far the Huskies have come — and gone. At his desk in the Werth Center, he is surrounded by 11 championship…
Tribune News Service · Feb 26, 2022 Dom Amore: UConn, with Paige Bueckers and everyone back, has the look of a juggernaut HARTFORD, Conn. — That monster of a team everyone was envisioning during the dark, dreary days of December and January arrived.
Tribune News Service · Feb 10, 2022 UConn women drop conference game for first time since 2013 with 72-69 loss to Villanova HARTFORD, Conn. — Sunday’s win over Tennessee may have represented the promise of this UConn women’s basketball team, but a mere three days later, on the same court in Hartford where the Huskies demolished a then-top-10 team, Wednesday featured an unraveling.