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Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack reacted to UConn's big win to eliminate her team from the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by three-time national champion with UConn and three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi on behalf of Greenies. She gives her thoughts on the current UConn women’s basketball team and how head coach Geno Auriemma has kept the program at the top for so long.
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‘She’s fearless:’ Blanca Quinonez shines for UConn women’s basketball in March Madness debut
STORRS — Freshman moments are rare for UConn women’s basketball forward Blanca Quinonez, but she had one in the first NCAA Tournament game of her career Saturday at Gampel Pavilion. After Quinonez clanked a third 3-point jump shot in three minutes off the rim late in the first quarter against 16-seed Texas -San Antonio,
Sarah Strong has 12 points, Ashlynn Shade 11 and Blanca Quiñonez 10 as the Huskies have jumped out to big lead at the half. UConn has 24 points off 19 turnovers by UTSA. The Huskies are outscoring the Roadrunners 28-4 in the paint.
No. 9 seed Syracuse women’s basketball held on to defeat No. 8 seed Iowa State 72-63 in Storrs, Connecticut on Saturday evening. The Orange move on to face top overall seed UConn on Monday. Here’s everything that head coach Felisha Legette-Jack along with point guard Olivia Schmitt (15 points) and center Uche Izoje (23 points) said postgame.
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UConn women may seem leaderless but that’s just how these top-ranked, undefeated Huskies like it
It was early in the UConn women’s basketball team’s Big East Tournament semifinal against Creighton when it looked like Sarah Strong and Blanca Quinonez were trying to play a different sport entirely.