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5 UConn fought through a tough first half before pulling away late to beat Tennessee 84-67 at Thompson-Boling Arena, which snapped the Lady Volunteers’ nine-game win streak and marked the Huskies’ fourth-straight win in the series. UConn responded immediately with a 7-0 run of its own and took control of the game right back. Jordan Horston led Tennessee with 25 points and seven rebounds off the bench, and Rickea Jackson added 13 points and seven rebounds herself. Aaliyah Edwards led UConn with 25 points, six rebounds and four assists in the win while shooting 9-of-15 from the field. UConn has now won 12 straight, and entered Knoxville fresh off a 43-point win over DePaul on Monday night.

4 UConn opened up a close game in the second half to beat Georgetown 65-50 on Sunday. Fudd was playing in just her second game back after missing the previous eight after hurting that knee in December. Georgetown was up 13-11 after a quarter, forcing seven turnovers and keeping UConn without a basket for over six minutes. Fudd broke another UConn scoring drought with a 3-pointer from the right baseline that put the Huskies back in front 14-13. She came back after halftime with a bag of ice on her right knee and did not play.

NEW YORK — (AP) — UConn is starting to finally get healthy. The fourth-ranked Huskies welcomed back coach Geno Auriemma and star guard Azzi Fudd on Wednesday night in a 30-point rout of St. John's. They also have missed their Hall of Fame coach for four games due to an illness he's been dealing with for a month. He was back on the bench against St. John's after he had missed the Huskies’ previous two games because he wasn’t feeling well. He assured me he was.”Fudd missed eight games after injuring her right knee against Notre Dame on Dec. 4.

After a difficult stretch that saw UConn have to postpone a game because the fourth-ranked Huskies didn't have enough healthy players, they are starting to get healthy.

Because UConn was below the Big East minimum of seven available scholarship players, the Sunday matchup with DePaul was postponed. "And that is, when do we get back to a place where we have seven available players that aren't limited? Winner: Angel ReeseAngel Reese continues to blow by and over opponents, this time to the tune of a 20-20 game. In SEC play, she’s averaging 23 ppg on 42.9% shooting with 18.5 rpg, 1.8 bpg, 1.3 apg and one spg. 1 South Carolina (16-0, 4-0 SEC), Ohio State (17-0) and LSU (16-0) as the three remaining undefeated teams as of Monday afternoon.

5 UConn injury woes have reached the point that the program doesn't have enough players to legally play a game. Entering Thursday's game against Xavier, UConn was already without Paige Bueckers (torn ACL), Azzi Fudd (knee), Caroline Ducharme (concussion) and Ice Brady (patella), not to mention head coach Geno Auriemma (illness). While it's unfortunate that we need to postpone Sunday's game, it's the right call to protect the safety of our student-athletes. We will work with the BIG EAST and DePaul on options to reschedule the game." UConn says the Big East will attempt to reschedule the game, with fans being able to use their tickets for Sunday at the new game.

5 UConn and DePaul on Sunday has been postponed because the Huskies don't have enough healthy players available to suit up, the conference said Friday. UConn (12-2) does not have the required seven healthy scholarship players to put a team on the court. They join sophomore Caroline Ducharme, sophomore Azzi Fudd, junior Paige Bueckers and freshman Ice Brady on the inactive list. “At UConn, the health and wellbeing of our student-athletes will always be our top priority,” David Benedict, the school's athletic director, said. While it’s unfortunate that we need to postpone Sunday’s game, it’s the right call to protect the safety of our student-athletes.

The Big East Conference says Sunday's game between No. 5 UConn and DePaul has been postponed because the Huskies don’t have enough healthy players available to suit up.

The Big East game between No. 5 UConn and DePaul on Sunday has been postponed because the Huskies don't have enough healthy players available to suit up, the conference said Friday. UConn (12-2) does not have the required seven healthy scholarship players to put a team on the court. The Huskies are also expected to be without head coach Geno Auriemma, who is taking time off with an undisclosed illness, the school said.

UConn head coach Geno Auriemma will miss the Huskies’ game at Xaiver on Thursday, his fourth absence from the bench this season. I’m going to take a step back to focus on my health and will return when I feel ready. Associate head coach Chris Dailey will continue to take over head coaching duties in Auriemma’s place. Auriemma missed two games in December against Florida State and Seton Hall after feeling sick with flu-like symptoms. Aaliyah Edwards, Ayanna Patterson and Lou Lopez Sénéchal are the only Connecticut players to appear in every game this season.

UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will sit out the Huskies’ game on Thursday, the fourth game he has missed this season due to illness.

STORRS, Conn. — (AP) — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will sit out the Huskies’ game at Xavier on Thursday, the fourth game he has missed this season due to illness. Associate head coach Chris Dailey, who has been at UConn with Auriemma since 1985, will take over the head coaching duties. 5 UConn (12-2) has been beset with injuries and illness this season. Former national player of the year Paige Bueckers and freshman Ice Brady are out for the season with knee injuries. Only three Huskies have played in every game this season.

UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will sit out the Huskies’ game at Xavier Thursday, the fourth game he has missed this season due to illness.

Geno Auriemma was not feeling well and missed UConn's game at Butler, his third absence in their last five games.

His UConn Huskies weathered a run of injuries and illness to reach the NCAA Tournament championship game last season, and the core of that team was supposed to be back this year. Bueckers, who missed 19 games with a knee injury last season, is now recovering from a torn ACL. Aubrey Griffin missed the Creighton game because of COVID-19 and reserve Amari DeBerry didn't play because she couldn't get a flight from Buffalo, New York, where she spent Christmas. Even Auriemma has missed two games because of a flu-like illness. There isn't as much running up and down the floor, and he monitors how much some players are on their feet.

South Carolina maintained its hold on top of The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll Monday, reaching a milestone in the process. South Carolina started last season at No. They've gone 17-0 against Top 25 teams over the past two years, including a 3-0 mark this season. South Carolina (12-0) hosts Texas A&M on Thursday. North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, UConn, LSU and UCLA round out the top 10.

South Carolina maintained its hold on top of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

Geno Auriemma will miss No. 9 UConn’s game against Seton Hall on Wednesday, days after missing its game against Florida State.

Her 16.9 points and 9.4 rebounds per game are approximately double her numbers last season as she takes over games for UConn. It was the second game the nation’s top-ranked shooting guard in the class of 2022 fouled out. She ranks second in points per 40 minutes (34.7) and fourth in win shares. She traveled on Thursday to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the win against South Dakota State. 9 UConn (8-2, 1-0 Big East), noon ET — UConn is averaging 1.21 points per scoring attempt (second) aided by a 41.6% 3-point clip (second).

9 UConn, which was missing head coach Geno Auriemma, beat Florida State 85-77 in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Showcase on Sunday. Juhasz broke her thumb in the Huskies' second game of the season against Texas and missed the next seven games. UConn scored the first 10 points with Muhl having three assists. Juhasz was blocking shots on the other end as Florida State missed 16 of its first 17 shots and trailed 26-11 after the first quarter. ... UConn hasn’t lost back-to-back games since the end of the 1992-93 season, a streak of 1,066 consecutive games.

Aaliyah Edwards scored 26 points, Lou Lopez Senechal added 23, and No. 9 UConn, which was missing head coach Geno Auriemma, beat Florida State 85-77 in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase.

Geno Auriemma missed No. 9 UConn’s game against Florida State on Sunday as he wasn’t feeling well after the team’s shootaround.

Geno Auriemma missed No. 9 UConn's game against Florida State on Sunday as he wasn't feeling well after the team's shootaround earlier in the day. Associate head coach Chris Dailey filled in for the Hall of Famer. It's been an emotional week for the 68-year-old Auriemma.

It’s a loss for the entire sport that these established star student-athletes aren’t able to play, and play against one another. Iowa (8-3, 2-0 Big Ten) found its proper footing again in an impressive rivalry win over Iowa State, 70-57, last week, but might be without one of its starters. She's averaging 28.5 points per game through 10 games this year and 23.4 points per game over her career. ET — UConn will have had time to rest and possibly have healthy players back. Iowa State (7-2)15.

UConn women's basketball sophomore Azzi Fudd is expected to miss three to six weeks with an injury. How will the Huskies handle another massive loss?

7 Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, on Sunday. It was in the 2021 game against Notre Dame that Bueckers sustained a non-contact leg injury in the final minutes of an 18-point winning margin. Against Notre Dame, the first and only steal of the first quarter came at 3:45 by Lou Lopez Senechal. Defensively, UConn didn’t have an early answer for point guard Olivia Miles. Aubrey Griffin pulled in six rebounds, almost all in the first half, but was 1-of-12 and Notre Dame tempted her to shoot from range.

UConn star Azzi fudd will miss three to six weeks due to a right knee injury she sustained during a loss to Notre Dame last Sunday, the team announced Tuesday. She played for a few minutes before UConn head coach Geno Auriemma took her out for the remainder of the game. NEWS: Azzi Fudd is expected to miss 3-6 weeks after suffering a right knee injury in the second quarter of UConn’s game vs. Notre Dame last Sunday. pic.twitter.com/yxpZwIUwqk — UConn Women’s Basketball (@UConnWBB) December 6, 2022UConn’s struggle with injuriesFor now, UConn only has eight healthy players. Freshman forward Isuneh "Ice" Brady, the fifth ranked recruit in her class, is also out for the season after she sustained a dislocated patella in her right knee during practice in October.

UConn star Azzi Fudd is expected to miss 3-6 weeks after suffering a right knee injury against Notre Dame on Sunday.

7 Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, on Sunday. It was in the 2021 game against Notre Dame that Bueckers sustained a non-contact leg injury in the final minutes of an 18-point winning margin. Against Notre Dame, the first and only steal of the first quarter came at 3:45 by Lou Lopez Senechal. Defensively, UConn didn’t have an early answer for point guard Olivia Miles. Aubrey Griffin pulled in six rebounds, almost all in the first half, but was 1-of-12 and Notre Dame tempted her to shoot from range.

“Whenever you start to have that, the next thing that happens is those good teams start beating other good teams. 1 South Carolina forced overtime on ABC and took advantage of two bad mistakes by No. Of the women’s games, 21 have been intentionally scheduled as nonconference games compared to six for the men. The final 28.8 seconds of overtime was a rough way to end another stellar Stanford vs. South Carolina showdown. But she called a timeout the Cardinal didn’t have, essentially ending the game by giving South Carolina two free throws and possession.

1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll Monday after a chaotic week that saw half of the top 10 teams lose at least one game. Ohio State is fourth and Iowa State is fifth. 6 while Notre Dame, North Carolina, Iowa and Louisville round out the top 10. They are playing in Oregon on Thursday in the Phil Knight Invitational and then either Iowa State or Michigan State on Sunday. FEAST WEEKMany of the top women's teams are playing in tournaments around the country as well as Mexico and the Bahamas this week.

South Carolina and Stanford are still 1-2 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll after their game over the weekend.

HARTFORD, Conn. — (AP) — Azzi Fudd and the UConn Huskies got a scare prior to Sunday's game, then took the court and beat another top-10 opponent. 5 UConn toppled 10th-ranked North Carolina State 91-69. The day started with a scary moment when longtime Huskies associate head coach Chris Dailey fainted after the national anthem. everything tested out pretty good,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said of Dailey, who was taken to a hospital. She played 11 minutes against N.C. State, but was scoreless.

Azzi Fudd scored 32 points and No. 5 UConn beat 10th-ranked North Carolina State 91-69 on Sunday in a game that started with a scary moment when longtime Huskies associate head coach Chris Dailey fainted after the national anthem.

Longtime UConn associate head coach Chris Dailey fainted before the start of the No. 5 Huskies’ game against 10th-ranked North Carolina State on Sunday. As the national anthem ended, Dailey had to be held up by UConn personnel before she was laid down on the court. Dailey, who is 63, waved to the crowd and smiled as she left the court.

Injured UConn star Paige Bueckers, in one of her recent Instagram stories. “I’m head coach,” Bueckers told reporters recently. The good news for UConn fans is that Bueckers also vowed to return to college next year, rather than declaring, as she could, for the WNBA draft.

UConn announced it has agreed to pay former men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie another $3.9 million to settle discrimination claims surrounding his 2018 firing.

The Basketball Hall of Fame has added 16 new members.

The Basketball Hall of Fame will officially enshrine 13 new members on Saturday night.

STORRS, Conn. — (AP) — UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers tore the ACL in her left knee and will miss the entire 2022-23 season, the school announced Wednesday. UConn said in a statement that Bueckers suffered the injury Monday during a pickup basketball game and underwent an MRI that evening. “We’re all devastated for Paige,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. She missed 19 games last season after suffering a left knee tibia plateau fracture and torn meniscus in early December. ___More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

UConn says women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers tore the ACL in her left knee during a pickup game and will miss the entire 2022-23 season.

Former National Player of the Year Paige Bueckers will miss the entire 2022-21 season with a torn ACL in her left knee, the UConn women's basketball team announced on Wednesday. She returned to help lead UConn to the national championship game where they lost to South Carolina. Paige is obviously an amazing basketball player but she's a better person and teammate and it's really unfortunate that this has happened to her. We'll miss her presence on the court, but she'll do everything she can to still lead and help her teammates this season. Bueckers will undergo surgery on Friday at UConn Health and updates on her timetable to return will be made following.

NCAA UConn South Carolina Basketball South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley cuts the net after a college basketball game in the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament against UConn Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Minneapolis. South Carolina won 64-49 to win the championship. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Charlie Neibergall)MINNEAPOLIS — (AP) — Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma hugged at midcourt after South Carolina ended UConn's undefeated run in NCAA championship games. “Look at the tradition of UConn and what they've been able to do,” Staley said. “They were determined to be champions today.”A year ago, South Carolina lost in the Final Four when Boston missed a layup before the buzzer.

Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma hugged at midcourt after South Carolina ended UConn’s undefeated run in NCAA championship games.

The Gamecocks ended the Huskies' undefeated streak in championship games with their 64-49 victory and capped a wire-to-wire run as the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press poll.

The Connecticut Huskies had to lean on Paige Bueckers as hard as they could against South Carolina in the NCAA championship game.

NCAA UConn South Carolina Basketball South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley reacts during the second half of a college basketball game in the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Minneapolis. With Staley calling the shots in a $5,000 letterman jacket, South Carolina took UConn to school on the boards and capped a wire-to-wire run as the No. This time it was Boston — the AP Player of the Year — and her fellow South Carolina post players who dominated on the game's biggest stage. Henderson had three steals, Boston blocked two shots and South Carolina forced 15 turnovers. South Carolina: The Gamecocks lose Henderson and Victaria Saxton but have all the talent to repeat as champions.

Dawn Staley and South Carolina buttoned up on defense and won their second national championship, stifling UConn for a 64-49 victory that ended the Huskies’ undefeated streak in title games.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are 11-0 in NCAA championship games. The Huskies will look to continue that run when they face South Carolina for the women's basketball title on Sunday night. WINNING AT HOMEBueckers is looking to be the first UConn player to win a championship in her home city. DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPSBoth South Carolina and UConn have been stalwarts on defense all season long. “I think it’s just a mentality to have every single game,” South Carolina's Brea Beal said.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies have gone 11-0 in NCAA title games and will look to continue that success when they face South Carolina for the women's basketball title Sunday night.

NCAA Louisville South Carolina Basketball The South Carolina bench reacts after the second half of a college basketball game in the semifinal round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament Friday, April 1, 2022, in Minneapolis. South Carolina won 72-59 to advance to the finals. 1 overall seed in this year's NCAA Tournament will be the Connecticut Huskies, who produced a lockdown defensive performance of their own to reach the national championship. UConn has never lost in the NCAA final, sporting a staggering 11-0 record in national championships. South Carolina beat UConn in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas in November, pulling away from the Huskies in the fourth quarter with that stifling defense.

The South Carolina Gamecocks have had the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll the entire season.

Paige Bueckers scored 14 points and UConn advanced to the national championship game with a 63-58 win over defending champion Stanford.

Kim Mulkey is The Associated Press women's basketball Coach of the Year in her first season at LSU.

There was a time, not that many years ago, when predicting who would win the women’s NCAA Tournament was not that difficult.

"Part of her wrist was completely cleanly fractured and dislocated," UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said of forward Dorka Juhasz after the game.

The top-seeded Wolfpack will try to end that drought and stop UConn's record streak of 13 straight trips to the national semifinals when the two teams play Monday night in the Bridgeport Region final. Raina Perez was the closest to being alive back in 1998 — being born a few months after that run by legendary N.C State coach Kay Yow's team. “It’s huge for this program and it will take a lot of hard work and grit, especially since it’s UConn,” Perez said of reaching the Final Four. No question about it," N.C. State center Elissa Cunane said. — the last coming in 2016 to end a streak of four consecutive ones.

It’s been 24 years since North Carolina State has reached a Final Four and during that time UConn has been to 18 of them, including the last 13 straight.

Paige Bueckers and Christyn Williams each scored 15 points to lead a balanced UConn offense in a 75-58 win over Indiana to advance the Huskies into their 16th consecutive regional final.

Freshman Azzi Fudd scored 16 points and hit two key free throws late as No. 2 seed UConn outfought No. 7 seed UCF 52-47 in a defensive slugfest Monday night to advance to an NCAA record 28th straight Sweet 16.

UConn and UCF will renew what has been a physical rivalry when the teams square off Monday night. The No. 2 seed Huskies, who routed Mercer in the opening round, are 13-0 against the No. 7 seed Knights, dating back to their days together in the American Athletic Conference, which UConn left in 2020 to rejoin the Big East.

UConn star Paige Bueckers is by all accounts physically fit again as her Huskies enter the women's NCAA Tournament looking for a 14th consecutive appearance in the Final Four and a 12th national title. The sophomore has averaged under 14 minutes a game since her return and scored 30 total points, 16 of them in the Huskies' Big East quarterfinal win over Georgetown.

SEC Kentucky South Carolina Basketball South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley watches the action during her team's loss to Kentucky in the NCAA women's college basketball Southeastern Conference tournament championship game Sunday, March 6, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) (Mark Humphrey)Dawn Staley and South Carolina are once again a No. 1 seed in the women's basketball NCAA Tournament — a familiar role for the Gamecocks. South Carolina earned the the top overall seed in this year's tournament field, which was announced Sunday night. Expanding the field was one of the many changes to the women's basketball tournament in the wake of inequities revealed at last season's NCAAs. “They have all the pieces, all of their players playing,' said women's basketball selection committee chair Nina King.

South Carolina has expectedly earned the No. 1 overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

6 UConn put forth another dominant defensive effort to beat Villanova 70-40 in the Big East championship game Monday night. It was the 20th Big East tournament championship for UConn, which avenged a loss last month to the Wildcats. UConn (25-5) only had eight healthy players for that game with Paige Bueckers, Olivia Nelson-Ododa and Caroline Ducharme all sidelined. The only real question in the fourth quarter was whether the Huskies would be able to break their own record for fewest points given up in the Big East championship game. Villanova last played UConn in the Big East championship game in 2003, when the Wildcats snapped what was then the Huskies' NCAA-record 70-game winning streak.

Evina Westbrook scored 13 points, Aaliyah Edwards added 12 points and No. 6 UConn put forth another dominant defensive effort to beat Villanova 70-40 in the Big East championship game.

Paige Bueckers scored 16 points in her third game back from knee surgery and No. 7 UConn routed Georgetown 84-38 in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament.

The prelude is past, the postseason is here. The UConn women’s basketball team may not be in its familiar position, poised for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and considered the team to beat, but the Huskies are embracing their position as dangerous underdogs. “We’re a different team [than earlier in the season],” UConn senior Christyn Williams said. “I feel like a lot of teams are ...

Paige Bueckers scored eight points in 12 minutes in her return from a knee injury that kept her out for more than two months.

10 UConn beat seventh-ranked Tennessee 75-56 on Sunday. Fudd got the start when it was announced about an hour before the game that the Huskies would be missing her classmate, Caroline Ducharme. Fudd scored the team's first basket — a 3-pointer — and finished the opening half with nine points as UConn (15-4) built a 32-25 lead. She scored the first four points to start a 14-0 run that gave the Huskies a 46-25 lead. Tennessee (19-4), which has now lost three of its last four games, didn't threaten the rest of the game.

Freshman Azzi Fudd scored a career-high 25 points in her first start to help No. 10 UConn beat seventh-ranked Tennessee 75-56.

Men’s and women’s basketball coaches across the country are coping with the challenge of physical conditioning that comes with COVID-19 pauses.

UConn Louisville Basketball Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma, center right, talks with Dorka Juhasz (14) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Louisville, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (Jessica Hill)UConn's record 16-year run in the top 10 is over. 11 in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll Monday after losing to Louisville a day earlier. UConn had been ranked among the first 10 teams in the poll for 313 straight weeks dating back to March 7, 2005, when the team was also 11th. It's the 600th appearance in the AP Top 25 for Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, who is 18 behind all-time leader Pat Summitt. ___More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25Copyright 2021 The Associated Press.

UConn’s record 16-year run in the top 10 is over.

Bueckers underwent the surgery on Monday afternoon at UConn Health, the school announced. The reigning national player of the year fractured her left tibia at the knee on Dec. 5 in a win over Notre Dame. The injury, known as a tibial plateau fracture, was expected to take six to eight weeks to heal on its own. But the school said Tuesday that she also suffered a lateral meniscus tear when she was hurt and that both injuries were repaired during the surgery. Bueckers' recovery is expected to take two months from the date of surgery, the school said.

UConn says star Paige Bueckers has undergone successful surgery to repair the left leg fracture she suffered a week ago as well as a meniscus tear in that knee.

UConn sophomore Mir McLean has left the program and will transfer, UConn coach Geno Auriemma announced Monday. McLean, a little-used reserve from Maryland, played in 27 games at UConn and averaged 2.5 points and 2.0 rebounds. A former McDonald's All-American in high school, the 5-foot-11 forward played eight minutes this season, did not score and had two rebounds. “Mir is extremely smart and athletic and she has a lot of potential,” Auriemma said.

Coach Geno Auriemma said Saturday that Bueckers is in the process of getting more medical opinions on how to proceed. The reigning national player of the year fractured her left tibia at the knee last Sunday in a win over Notre Dame. The injury, known as a tibial plateau fracture, was expected to take six to eight weeks to heal on its own. Bueckers likely would be out about two months after any surgery is performed, Auriemma said. ___More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25Copyright 2021 The Associated Press.

UConn star Paige Bueckers is considering surgery to repair the left leg fracture she suffered a week ago, which might mean missing more time than originally expected.

Third-ranked UConn struggled again without star Paige Bueckers but managed to avoid back-to-back losses for the first time since 1993, holding off UCLA 71-61.

UConn Georgia Tech Basketball Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma talks to forward Dorka Juhasz (14) during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game agains Georgia Tech on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) (John Bazemore)ATLANTA — (AP) — Georgia Tech shut down No. But Georgia Tech (7-2) pulled away in the fourth quarter before a raucous crowd of 4,578 — the sixth-largest in school history — to snap UConn's 240-game winning streak against unranked opponents. UConn, averaging 74.5 points a game with Bueckers, missed its first nine shots of the final period, along with committing six turnovers. Georgia Tech: The Yellow Jackets showed plenty of focus after the difficult news regarding Butts.

Georgia Tech shut down No. 3 UConn in its first game since an injury to reigning national player of the year Paige Bueckers, defeating the Huskies 57-44 in a defensive slugfest.

The Minnesota Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve will be the next USA Basketball national team coach, a person with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. She will be the first professional women’s basketball coach to lead the team since Anne Donovan was courtside for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The U.S. is in a bit of transition with five-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird retiring from international play. Four-time Olympic gold medalist Sylvia Fowles, who plays for Reeve in Minnesota, also said she is retiring from USA Basketball. ___More AP women’s basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsCopyright 2021 The Associated Press.

This week's Battle 4 Atlantis men's college basketball tournament in the Bahamas headlines the list of offshore events returning to the sport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The release of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll will be delayed a day because of a Monday afternoon matchup between the top two teams.

The NCAA women’s basketball tournament is expanding to 68 teams beginning with the current season, giving it an equal number of participants as the men’s tournament as part of a concerted effort at gender parity.

UConn comes into this season ranked No. 2, having added the nation’s top recruit, guard Azzi Fudd, to a team that returns last year’s collegiate national player of the year, Paige Bueckers, and every other starter from a squad that went to it’s 13th straight Final Four.

The Associated Press preseason women's All-America team is out and Paige Bueckers of UConn is a unanimous choice.

Sue Bird’s impressive 17-year Olympic journey will come to an end this weekend.

A report examining how the NCAA conducts its championship events is recommending that the association considers holding the men's and women's Final Fours in the same location.

There is definitely a UConn flavor to the women's basketball being played in the Tokyo Games.

Jennifer Gillom says everything is a process.

U.S. assistant Dan Hughes is not the face of the Olympic women's basketball team and he couldn't be happier in his role.

The groundbreaking ruling that went into effect on enabling college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness for the first time has sent college and university athletic directors and compliance officers scrambling.

Kobe Bryant is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame now, along with contemporaries Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, headliners of a group of nine who got their delayed and long-awaited enshrinement on Saturday night, more than a year after being announced as the Hall’s Class of 2020.

Michael Jordan will present Kobe Bryant for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame next month.

Vanderbilt has hired Shea Ralph away from UConn to help revive the Commodores’ struggling women’s basketball program.

Haley Jones scored 17 points and Stanford beat Arizona 54-53, giving the Cardinal and coach Tara VanDerveer their first national championship in 29 years.

UConn's star guard became the first freshman ever to win The Associated Press women's basketball player of the year award Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)SAN ANTONIO – Paige Bueckers is in a class all by herself. UConn's star guard became the first freshman ever to win The Associated Press women's basketball player of the year award Wednesday. “It’s amazing, surreal for people to think of me that highly and to be in that position as a freshman,” Bueckers said. But I don’t think you can.”___More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/Womenscollegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25

(AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)SAN ANTONIO – Maryland coach Brenda Frese was honored as The Associated Press women's basketball coach of the year Wednesday for the second time in her career. Frese received eight votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes on the weekly AP Top 25. Obviously its going to be one I never forget,” said Frese, who also was AP coach of the year 19 years ago when she was at Minnesota. When Maryland won the Big Ten Tournament, Frese's father and mother, Donna, were in the stands in Indianapolis. “It's a memory I’ll cherish for a lifetime.”___More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/Womenscollegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25