{"id":12192,"date":"2010-04-05T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=12192"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:06:30","slug":"huskies-to-try-for-7th-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/huskies-to-try-for-7th-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Huskies to Try for 7th National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12255\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/huskydog2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12255 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"Husky Dog Logo Large\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/huskydog2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;The Husky mascot is a rallying point for fans of UConn athletics.&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The women\u2019s basketball team extended its unbeaten streak to 77 games with Sunday\u2019s 70-50 win over Baylor in San Antonio, Texas, placing the Huskies in position to win their second consecutive NCAA title and a seventh national championship today at 8:30 p.m. (ET) against Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>Led by All-Americans Maya Moore (34 points, 12 rebounds) and Tina Charles (21 points, 13 rebounds), the Huskies held Baylor\u2019s 6-8 freshman center Brittney Griner to 13 points and 6 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing the Huskies at halftime 39-26, Baylor started the second half with a 12-2 run that brought them to within three points. The Huskies responded with a 21-6 run over the next nine minutes to secure the win, pushing the team\u2019s 2009-10 record to 38-0.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford was the last team to beat the Huskies, but when UConn and Stanford played earlier this season at the XL Center on Dec. 23, the Huskies won by a score of 80-68.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/\">Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a win over Baylor Sunday, the women&#8217;s basketball team will meet Stanford in tonight&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-12192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 17:55:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12266,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions\/12266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}