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BREAKING NEWS March Madness title game set as Paige Bueckers and UConn dismantle UCLA to book South Carolina showdown By JAKE FENNER Published: 23:39 EDT, 4 April 2025 | Updated: 23:42 EDT, 4 April 2025 e-mail View comments For the 13th time in their history, the UConn Huskies women's basketball team will be playing in the national championship game. Led by WBCA Freshman of the Year Sarah Strong, the Huskies dominated from beginning to end as they defeated No. 1 overall seed UCLA 85-51.
It's the largest margin of victory in the history of the women's Final Four. By game's end, the Huskies shot 55 percent from the field while stifling everyone on the Bruins not named Lauren Betts. While Betts finished the night with a game-high 26 points on 11-for-18 shooting, only five of the nine other players on UCLA that saw action in this game logged points.
Excluding Betts, UCLA only managed 25 combined points on a 9-for-34 shooting line. Meanwhile, UConn's Azzi Fudd had the best half of her career with the Huskies as she dropped 19 points in the first half of the game. Paige Bueckers, the leader of this unit playing in her final games as a part of the team, put up 16 points and five rebounds.
Other UConn scorers included guard KK Arnold (9 points, 3 assists), guard Kaitlyn Chen (6 points, 3 rebounds, five assists), and center Jana El-Alfy (6 points, 8 rebounds, two assists). MORE TO FOLLOW. March Madness South Carolina Share or comment on this article: March Madness title game set as Paige Bueckers and UConn dismantle UCLA to book South Carolina showdown e-mail Add comment Comments 0 Share what you think No comments have so far been submitted.
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