WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
UConn, Oklahoma going to women's Final Four
TRENTON, N. J. — The Connecticut express is headed to St. Louis for the Final Four, a trip the perfect Huskies have seemed destined to make all season.
Maya Moore scored 25 points and undefeated UConn beat Arizona State, 83-64, on Tuesday night to advance to the national semifinals for the second straight season and ninth time in the last 14 years.
Renee Montgomery added 22 points for the Huskies (37-0), who will face Stanford on Sunday in a rematch of last season’s national semifinal. The Cardinal won that game before losing in the championship to Tennessee.
“I said last year we’d be back,” Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma said. “We are going back, it’s ironic that we’re playing the same team. We’re pretty excited right now. It’s good, it’s all good.”
UConn hasn’t lost since falling to Stanford and is two wins away from the program’s third perfect season.
“They look like as a good team as last year,” Auriemma said. “If we do the same thing we did last year it’s not going to be good enough. We’ll have to be better than we were last season as I think they are better.”
The Huskies have entered the NCAAs unbeaten three other times. Connecticut went on to win the national championship in 1995 and 2002. In ’97, the Huskies lost to Tennessee in the regional final.
Danielle Orsillo scored 18 to lead Arizona State (26-9), which played the Huskies as competitively as just about any other opponent this season but still had its season end in the regional final for the second time in three years.
It was a busy day for Moore, who made The Associated Press All-America team for the second straight season.
She also broke UConn’s single- season scoring record on a step-back three-pointer late in the first half that gave the Huskies their first double-digit lead of the game, 34-24.
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