Tamba, Florida (AP)-Sarah Strong and Fezid Fodid needed a lot of help from Paage Poits to push UCONN to the national title game, prompting the Huskies team to an easy victory of 85-51 over UCLA on Friday night at the last four NCAA championship.
Strong ended with 22 points and Foodyd scored all the 19 points in the first half in favor of the second ranked Huskies team, who enjoy his victory away from the twelfth national championship and its first since the team won four consecutive 2013-16, led by Breanna Stewart. The eight -year -old drought is the longest for Huskies since their first victory in 1995.
“We are not worried about the past. Every day you walk in the gym and rise to the level of basketball playing in Uconn,” said Bokers. “Don’t compare yourself to the other teams and players before. We want to fill their shoes and make them proud. Wear the shirt proudly.”
UNCONN will face South Carolina’s defense champion on Sunday to get the title after GameCock wins Texas 74-57 earlier Friday night. It is a match again in the 2022 championship game, which GameCocks 64-49 won. The teams gathered in February, and Okon South Carolina was shocked by beating the road of 29 points.
“They played basketball at an exceptionally high level when you think about four finals they were also and the consistency of their program,” said UNCONN coach Gino Orima. “The ability to win national championships several times and” they “in a position that allows them to win successive championships.”
The seeds, which is the highest possible choice in WNBA draft on April 14, ended with 16 points after leading 30 in each of the three previous matches of Huskies (36-3).
Orima said: “If Paige 16 was last year, we will not reach the four final.” “If she had the game that she had today in the previous year, it will be almost impossible to win.”
The All-Mamerica Lauren Betts Center scored 26 points for the UCLA seeds (34-3).
Uconn started a hot start with Strong and Fudd driving the road. Even when the shots looked, they found their way. Fudd, one of the best archers in the country whose professional life was cut off due to multiple injuries, was transported in the 3 -key index, prompting Orima to throw his arms into the air and smile.
“It is very fun watching her play with joy and be at this point,” said Bokerers. “You see all the rise and landing, bad days, and good days and that they are in this place where the light is at the end of the tunnel and its performance at this stage, and this means everything for us.”
He led the strong structure 23-13 at the end of the first quarter. They continued the attack behind Food to open the 42-22 feature at the end of the first half. The sowing had to play half with a touch of a touch in the air to the Kaitlyn Chen to get the ball thrown late in the second quarter.
The University of California in Los Angeles was not threatened in the second half because Betts, which is 6 feet and 7 feet long, had little help. Uconn ended with the violation of its own script of the margin of victory in the fourth or national match of the title – the 2013 Huskies team won 33 points over Luisville.
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Boins fell in his first appearance in NCAA Final Four. The University of California in Los Angeles won a national title in 1978 in the pre -NCA Women’s Basketball Basketball era. The Bruins team was looking to become the first team of The Big Ten, a conference they joined this season, to win a championship since Bordeaux in 1999.
The University of California in Los Angeles moved in the best regular season, ranked first in the top 25 years for the first time, and the place is held for 14 weeks.
Bruins only lost twice this year before Friday, both in front of Juju Watkins and USC. The University of California in Los Angeles won a degree of revenge by overcoming the USC to win the Big Ten in its first year in the league after dismantling the PAC-12. Bruins scored a record in a program to win one season and won 23 consecutive games, including 22 consecutive in double numbers.
“It is clear that we have gone to new horizons this year, but we have to let the pain of this we hope that we will teach us to go to new levels next year,” said California University coach Corrie Cloose. “Learn from this and be better next time. (It is really unusual to be in this position in the final four and have zero elderly in your treasury room and you have a chance to return stronger and more connected, learn from this experience and be better next time.”
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