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UConn Women's Basketball: We Are the Champions — Again

Coach Geno Auriemma ties former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt for the most national women's basketball titles.


This story was written and reported by 
Associate Regional Editor Eileen McNamara.

UConn women trounced Louisville 93-60 Tuesday night to become, as some news outlets are calling them, the "Eighth Wonder" of college women's basketball.  

UConn's win gives the women and their coach, Geno Auriemma, their eighth national championship, a title previously held only by Tennessee women's basketball and coach Pat Summitt.  

"The fact that I tied Pat Summitt's record puts you in the category of the greatest women's basketball coach that ever lived," Auriemma told ESPN after his team carried him in a victory lap around the court in the New Orleans stadum last night.  

UConn's victory also gives the Big East conference its ninth national championship. UConn, however, will no longer be with the conference, which is breaking up after this season.  

Freshman Breanna Stewart, who was named the tournament's most valuable player, scored 23 points in the championship game, 18 of those just in the first half. 

After her team's win Stewart told ESPN that even she was amazed by the outcome.  

"This is unbelievable," Stewart told the sports network. "This is what we've thought about since the beginning of the season. And now to be here and actually win it, it's a great feeling and I don't think it's going to set in for a while."


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