UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Azzi Fudd appreciates what UConn has completed to this point this season by going undefeated and profitable one other Huge East title. There’s nonetheless work to be completed for the top-ranked Huskies.

Fudd scored 19 factors and Sarah Robust added 18 as UConn rolled to its twenty fourth Huge East Match championship, beating Villanova 90-51 on Monday night time.

“I feel it’s an amazing accomplishment what we’ve been capable of obtain to this point this 12 months,” Fudd stated. “We’ll have a pair days off. and our work isn’t completed but. … Being Huge East champion will not actually matter in a few weeks.”

It was the fiftieth consecutive win for the defending nationwide champion Huskies (34-0), who enter the ladies’s NCAA Match undefeated for the eleventh time of their storied historical past. The Huskies personal 4 of the 5 longest profitable streaks in Division I, together with a report 111-game run.

The Huskies are six wins away from a report thirteenth nationwide title. They’re going to be a No. 1 seed when the March Insanity bracket is launched Sunday. UConn has gained all six Huge East Match titles for the reason that Huskies rejoined the convention in 2021.

The 2 groups met a number of weeks in the past and Villanova truly led UConn at halftime of that recreation. The Huskies did not let that occur once more. They took a fast lead behind Robust — who was named the match’s Most Excellent Participant — and have been up 23-11 after the opening quarter.

Robust stated the Huskies discovered rather a lot from the final assembly.

“We will’t allow them to get going, simply attempt to play our protection,” she stated. “Pace them up and get them out of their rhythm.”

Fudd and Blanca Quinonez helped lengthen the margin to 49-23 on the break. Robust had 15 factors within the opening half. Fudd added 11.

The lead ballooned within the second half and coach Geno Auriemma rested his starters within the fourth quarter.

Villanova (25-7) now will wait to see the place it is positioned within the NCAA area. Jasmine Bascoe led the Wildcats with 14 factors.

“We did what we would have liked to do to construct that resume,” Villanova coach Denise Dillon stated. “Have a look at our report, 25-7, three of these losses coming to the No. 1 group within the nation. … Excited for subsequent Sunday to see the place we’re getting despatched.”

A 3-pointer by Kelsey Joens with only a few seconds left helped Villanova keep away from matching the worst loss in Huge East closing historical past. UConn beat Boston Faculty by 42 factors in 2002.

The match was performed at Mohegan Solar Enviornment, and the convention introduced throughout the recreation it would proceed to play there by 2029.

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