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Geno Auriemma focused on making UConn better, not NCAA tourney
More Teams. More Games. Chloe Kitts shows off her court vision and finds Raven Johnson near the hoop for a South Carolina score. (0:19) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Following No. 11 UConn’s 83-65 loss at No. 1 South Carolina on Sunday, coach Geno Auriemma said he’s focused on helping his short-handed team improve — not the […]
Continue readingUConn forward Aaliyah Edwards inspired by Huskies legends
STORRS, Conn. — If Gampel Pavilion teems with legacy, the adjacent Werth Family UConn Basketball Champions Center overflows. Beyond the entrance adorned with glass-encased hardware, Aaliyah Edwards sits beside a court framed by banners celebrating first-team All-Americans, Olympic gold medalists, national players of the year and NCAA national championships. Edwards, in a black crewneck, sweatpants […]
Continue readingUConn’s Caroline Ducharme to sit season with head, neck pain
The 6-foot-2 junior started the first four games of this season, averaging 4.0 points and 2.0 rebounds, but has not played since the Huskies’ victory at Minnesota on Nov. 19. “I have been working tirelessly with my medical team to make a full return to basketball after sustaining head and neck injuries,” Ducharme said in […]
Continue readingUConn’s Aubrey Griffin out for season with torn ACL
Griffin, a fifth-year senior, suffered the injury during the No. 13 Huskies’ win over Creighton on Dec. 3. She was averaging 9.5 points and 6.0 rebounds in 14 games (five starts). She is the fourth UConn player — along with Azzi Fudd, (ACL/meniscus), Ayanna Patterson (knee) and forward Jana El Alfy (Achilles) — to suffer […]
Continue readingPaige Bueckers weighing more time at UConn vs. WNBA draft
“I think that’s what it’s all about,” Bueckers, the 2021 national player of the year, told reporters Tuesday. “It’s not about teams in the draft; who’s got what pick. It’s all about me loving playing here, me loving my teammates and wanting to get more experiences and more time with them and more time in […]
Continue readingThe trends and key stats that will define women’s college basketball
More Teams. More Games. Caitlin Clark discusses the progress of women’s basketball in recent years and says she hasn’t made a decision yet on whether to declare for April’s WNBA draft. (1:54) Two months into the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season, we’re starting to see an emergence of trends and identities for individual teams and […]
Continue readingWomen’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: No team’s hotter than NC State
The Wolfpack were picked to finish eighth in the ACC preseason poll, which now seems preposterous. But they finished 20-12 overall and 9-9 in the ACC last season, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Then because of graduation and transfers, NC State lost four players who started at least 20 games. One […]
Continue readingUConn’s Azzi Fudd out for season with torn ACL, meniscus
More Teams. More Games. Azzi Fudd steps into a 3-pointer and drains the shot for the Huskies. (0:17) UConn guard Azzi Fudd will miss the remainder of the 2023-24 season after suffering ACL and medial meniscal tears in her right knee, the team announced Wednesday. Fudd suffered the noncontact injury last week in practice when, […]
Continue readingWomen’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: Pac-12 surging
More Teams. More Games. Cameron Brink scores a career-high 29 points along with 11 rebounds and six blocks to lift Stanford to an 82-79 win in overtime. (1:18) Pac-12 women’s basketball players and coaches want to focus on the present this season. It’s something they can try to control, since the impending breakup of the […]
Continue readingPaige Bueckers returns to Minnesota, leads UConn to victory
Bueckers had 12 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists for eighth-ranked UConn in her hometown, and the Huskies stifled Minnesota’s outside shooters on the way to a 62-44 victory over the Gophers on Sunday. “For me to be the one taking the court in a game I used to watch was kind of crazy, kind […]
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