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No. 1 UConn Huskies to Face No. 9-Seed Syracuse in NCAA Second Round

The top-seeded UConn women's basketball team (35-0) plays its final game of the season in Gampel Pavilion Monday when the Huskies host Syracuse (24-8) in

Ready for another battle? UConn women face familiar foe Syracuse in NCAA Tournament second round

STORRS — Two years after the UConn women’s basketball team last faced Syracuse in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, junior guard Ashlynn Shade remembers the series that set up a dagger 3-pointer from classmate KK Arnold like it was yesterday.
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Women’s Basketball: Top-seeded UConn begins quest for repeat with No. 16 seed UTSA

The UConn women’s basketball team’s lengthy résumé of regular season accolades proved enough to earn it the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since

UConn women’s basketball shares close ties to Syracuse coaches, players in NCAA Tournament matchup

The first time Geno Auriemma met Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack, he was a 30-year-old assistant at Virginia trying to convince the teenage center to play for the Cavaliers. Legette-Jack entertained Virginia’s interest in part because her high school coach thought Auriemma was,

UConn women’s basketball notes: Freshmen relish first NCAA tournament, Huskies host top recruit

STORRS — When freshman center Gandy Malou-Mamel walked into Gampel Pavilion on Friday for the UConn women’s basketball team’s first official NCAA Tournament practice, she was stunned by the makeover that the Huskies’ home arena had undergone.
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Women’s Basketball: No. 1 seeded UConn bulldozes UTSA, advances to Round of 32

There’s just something about UConn women’s basketball, Gampel Pavilion and March, that just work well together.