{"id":227927,"date":"2025-04-07T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=227927"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:06:41","slug":"womens-basketball-wins-12th-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/04\/womens-basketball-wins-12th-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Women Win 12th National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year, another championship. Yet, they are all special and can never be taken for granted.<\/p>\n

UConn lived up to its reputation as the \u201cBasketball Capital of the World\u201d on Sunday as the women\u2019s basketball team defeated South Carolina by a 82-59 score in the championship game of the 2025 NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament in Tampa.<\/p>\n

The Huskies had three double-figure scorers in the championship game as graduate student Azzi Fudd and freshman Sarah Strong each had 24 points while senior Paige Bueckers had 17 points. Fudd was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.<\/p>\n

\"Geno
\u201cYou just never know if you\u2019ll ever be back in this situation again,\u201d Auriemma said. (NCAA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s amazing to have three players, three people like that on the same team,\u201d said Hall of Fame head coach Geno Auriemma. \u201cAnd Sarah, you would think Sarah was graduating the way she plays, right? All three of them complement each other so well. They all have such unique skill sets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The national championship gives UConn a unique \u201cthree-peat\u201d as the men\u2019s basketball team won the NCAA title in 2023 and \u201924.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s title marks UConn\u2019s 12 NCAA title in women\u2019s basketball, the most of any school. It\u2019s the first championship for the women\u2019s basketball team after a nine-year hiatus.<\/p>\n

Auriemma has won more national championships in college basketball \u2013 men\u2019s or women\u2019s \u2013 than any other individual.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just never know if you\u2019ll ever be back in this situation again,\u201d Auriemma said. \u201cAnd there were so many times when I think we all questioned, \u2018Have we been here too long? Has it been time?\u2019 And we kept hanging in there and hanging in there and that\u2019s because these players make me want to hang in there every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

UConn has captured a total of 26 national championships in its athletic history \u2013 12 in women\u2019s basketball, six in men\u2019s basketball, five in field hockey, and three in men\u2019s soccer.<\/p>\n

A Championship Welcome Back Rally is scheduled for Monday at approximately 5:00 p.m. Admission is free, but tickets need to be claimed<\/a> beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn lived up to its reputation as the \u201cBasketball Capital of the World\u201d on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":227930,"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":[1712,2649,2235,2227,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-227927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-blue-pride","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 15:10:15","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\/227927","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227927"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228093,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227927\/revisions\/228093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/227930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227927"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=227927"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=227927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}