STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”
STORRS, Conn. — A yr in the past this week, Paige Bueckers went to her automotive and bought emotional after her UConn Huskies defeated the Baylor Bears within the second spherical of the ladies’s NCAA match. Bueckers, on the day trip for the season with a torn ACL, needed nothing greater than to play in these high-stakes video games, with electrical crowds.
She “prayed so arduous a yr in the past at the moment,” Bueckers stated Monday, “to be in my footwear the place I am at proper now.”
Now taking part in in her first NCAA match in over 700 days, Bueckers added to her legend Monday by delivering 32 factors, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and a block to elevate the 3-seed Huskies over 6-seed Syracuse 72-64 in a aggressive second-round matchup in entrance of a sold-out Gampel Pavilion crowd.
With the win, UConn prolonged its NCAA tournament-record streak of consecutive Candy 16 appearances to 30.
After scoring 28 factors within the Huskies’ first-round win over Jackson State, Bueckers now has 60 factors to begin the NCAA match, probably the most for a UConn participant by means of the primary two video games since Kerry Bascom’s 62 in 1991. Bueckers can be the primary Division I participant prior to now 25 years with not less than 60 factors, 20 rebounds and 10 assists by means of the primary two video games of the match.
Her 32 factors Monday — achieved largely by dissecting the Orange’s zone and making them pay as she discovered openings contained in the paint — are an NCAA match career-best.
“Paige was superb her freshman yr … [Now] she’s means higher,” Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack stated. “I’ve recognized Geno since I used to be a freshman at Syracuse College. Paige is among the prime three that ever got here by means of these doorways.”
The redshirt junior scored her closing basket of the sport with 1:32 to play, serving to chase away a livid Syracuse run because the Orange took benefit of UConn level guard Nika Muhl fouling out halfway by means of the fourth quarter. However Bueckers nonetheless made profitable performs after that, dishing the ball to freshman KK Arnold for a 3-pointer with 29 seconds remaining, coming by means of with the ultimate defensive rebound to seal the win, and serving to UConn maintain Syracuse scoreless from the sphere within the closing 1:53.
“We now have the perfect participant in America,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma stated. “The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.
“You want individuals who could make profitable performs at massive moments, particularly the final 5 minutes of the sport. You want folks that may make these performs, the pictures that they should make, the rebounds that they should get, the unfastened balls they bought to get, the stops they should have.”
UConn led for the overwhelming majority of the competition, leaping forward by as many as 12 factors within the second quarter. However the momentum began to shift as soon as, with Syracuse inside eight, Muhl picked up three fouls in 30 seconds and fouled out, and the Orange in the end minimize the deficit to 2.
“We now have the perfect participant in America. The stats will inform you one factor … However it’s once they occur and the way they impression the sport that is so exceptional. I simply suppose this crew will go so far as she’s in a position to carry that form of a load. So long as she retains getting a bit of little bit of contributions from all people.”
UConn coach Geno Auriemma on Paige Bueckers
Syracuse star Dyaisha Truthful, guided by Muhl, was restricted to 2 factors within the first half earlier than ending with 20 total to maintain the Orange inside putting distance. Their season-high 13 3s, with 9 mixed from freshman Sophie Burrows and junior Georgia Woolley, helped enormously, too.
Truthful, a fifth-year senior, ends her storied collegiate profession with 3,403 profession factors at Buffalo and Syracuse, and Monday turned the third-leading Division I girls’s basketball scorer, passing Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Mitchell.
“On the finish of the day, she’s by no means going to cease making an attempt. She’s by no means going to cease believing in herself,” Legette-Jack stated of Truthful. “Whether or not she made a degree after the second half or not, her battle again was greater than any form of level that she’s ever scored.”
UConn secured a regional semifinal matchup towards 7-seed Duke, which upset second-seeded Ohio State on Sunday.
Recent on the Huskies’ minds is final yr’s Candy 16, when their streak of 14 consecutive Closing 4 appearances was snapped with a surprising upset to the Buckeyes.
“We’re lucky,” Auriemma stated. “We get to return to the place it ended for us final yr. I feel we’re a distinct crew, completely different mindset, and we’re hoping for a distinct consequence.”