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The first game of the night featured No. 1-seeded and undefeated South Carolina, ... The Gamecock will play either Iowa (33-4) or Connecticut (33-5) Sunday at 3 p.m. for the championship ...
Sarah Strong scored 21 points and Azzi Fudd added 18 to help No. 2 UConn rout No. 22 Louisville 85-52 on Saturday night as part of the Women's Champions Classic. The Huskies (8-0) took control ...
Iowa's 71-69 victory over UConn at the women's Final Four on Friday night averaged 14.2 million viewers on ESPN, making it the most-viewed women's basketball game on record and the largest ...
After leading 42–30 at halftime, No. 1 UConn defeated No. 4 Oklahoma 82–70 to capture the program's third National championship, [1] and complete the fourth unbeaten season in women's NCAA history (Texas, 1986; Connecticut, 1995; Tennessee, 1998). Connecticut's Swin Cash was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Going into the game, UConn and Syracuse had met 49 times in women's basketball, mostly when both teams were in the Big East Conference, with UConn winning 37 games. The last game between the two teams was in 2013, the final season before the three-way split of the Big East, when the Huskies won 64–51 in the Big East semifinals. [3]
The championship game was televised in the United States by ESPN. [21] The game was the most-viewed women's national championship broadcast since 2004, as it drew an average viewership of 4.85 million, with a peak viewership of 5.91 million. [22] This reflected an 18% increase in viewership over the previous season's title game. [23]
The Hawkeyes, who led 70-64 with 2:14 remaining in the game on Kate Martin's basket, were only up 70-69 with 9.6 seconds left when UConn's KK Arnold came up with the Huskies' 15th steal of the game.
The entire women's tournament, including the championship game, was televised in the United States by ESPN. [1] The championship game drew an average viewership of 3.21 million households, which was the fourth-best mark for a women's basketball broadcast in ten years and the fourth-highest for any ESPN women's basketball championship broadcast.