{"id":3376,"date":"2025-04-06T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:14:54","slug":"congratulations-to-the-uconn-huskies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the UConn Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There would be no second half comebacks.  There would only be pure domination.  Lots was made about this being Paige Bueckers last chance to win a championship, and she certainly had a nice game with 17 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the best player on the court might have been UConn&#8217;s freshman Sarah Strong.  Strong finished with 24 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 assists.  Her 114 points in the tournament was the most points scored by a freshman in NCAA Tournament history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add in senior Azzi Fudd&#8217;s 24 points and the Big 3 players for the Huskies simply ran away with this National Championship game as the Huskies won 82-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is UConn&#8217;s and Geno Auriemma&#8217;s 12th championship, and despite all their Final Fours, this is the first time they have broken through since 2016.  Congratulations to the Connecticut Huskies &#8211; the 2025 NCAA Women&#8217;s Basketball National Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There would be no second half comebacks. There would only be pure domination. Lots was made about this being Paige Bueckers last chance to win a championship, and she certainly had a nice game with 17 points. But the best player on the court might have been UConn&#8217;s freshman Sarah Strong. Strong finished with 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}