UConn’s chase for perfection ends in most imperfect way in Final Four loss to South Carolina
PHOENIX — No one knows more about perfection in women’s basketball than UConn. Six times the Huskies have gone through a season undefeated, capping their year with a national title. The closest scoring margin in any of those seasons’ victories?
A whopping 31 points. In those seasons, UConn hasn’t just been perfect. The Huskies have cleared the bar with ease.
On Friday night in Phoenix, two games away from perfect season No. 7, they took the floor against South Carolina. It was UConn coach Geno Auriemma’s 25th Final Four appearance.
This time, he was coaching a team riding a 54-game winning streak and sitting at 38-0 on the year. They ended nowhere close to that. Don’t say it fell apart for the Huskies, because that wouldn’t be giving South Carolina its due in the 62-48 win .
The Gamecocks came into the Final Four with a surgical game plan, and the players executed, not to a T but with enough of a margin that it didn’t matter. They weren’t perfect, but they were the better team. It didn’t matter that UConn had the nation’s best player in Sarah Strong, a generational shooter in Azzi Fudd and college basketball’s winningest coach in Auriemma.
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