TAMPA, Fla. – Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck have UConn back in the championship game for the third straight year. Now the Huskies are one victory away from a third straight title.
Stewart scored 25 points and Tuck added 24 to lead UConn to an 81-58 win over Maryland on Sunday in the Final Four.
UConn will face Notre Dame for the title on Tuesday night in a rematch of last season’s championship game.
“Every time we play Notre Dame, it’s something. I just have a lot of respect for what they’ve been able to do,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “They’ve got a heck of a team and their team has gotten a lot better as the season has gone on. Jewell’s a great player, obviously, but all their other players have gotten significantly better since the beginning of the season.”
The Huskies have won nine titles overall and a victory over the Irish would tie Auriemma with vaunted UCLA men’s coach John Wooden for the most all-time with 10. It would also be the second three-peat for UConn, which won three straight championships from 2002-04.