Paij Buickers Uconn leads to Big East: “They have all the pieces to win everything”

Let’s face it: Geno Auriemma is not an excuse, but his team has been far from the full power over the past four years. Therefore, when sweets fell from the rafters in MoHegan Sun Arena for the fifth year in a row in celebration of the Big East Tournament in Uconn, 23 of the program, this person was different.

“They are playing as well as anyone in America at the present time,” said Kim Adams, an analyst Fox Sports, referring to the strong structures No. 3 during the broadcast. “They have all the pieces to win everything.”

Huskies talent was fully displayed on Monday night, where they put a two-hour clinic that resulted in a 70-50 victory over Creightton, which was the NCAA championship lock and entered the game with 26-6.

Jim Flanry, who was already lost by the Creton team against Uconn twice this season with 30 points heading to the conference title on Monday night, said that the margin of his team was “little to nothing”, and “we must be ideal.”

Just four minutes after the game, it was 11-0 Connecticut, which is largely due to the defense that was great during the past month and is the biggest power of the team at the present time. The Huskies team is fourth in the country, allowing only 51.9 points per game, and carries the best margin of registration in the country in +29. Uconn held Saint John and Villanova, on only two points in their quarterly in the quarter -finals and a half of the semi -finals.

What was missing in the quarter-finals rounds and the semi-finals appeared in the final, with the shooting of Uconn 8 out of 15 from 3 points in the first half and the leaders of 40-22 at the end of the first half. The Huskies team launched a little more than 26 % of the city center in the previous Big Ten.

But the largest story for this Uconn team and throughout the total basketball of women is quite clear: Mania Hania.

Paij Bueckers is still chasing this first national title for telescopes, but on Monday night, Huskies star achieved a big Big East Tournament game, and in this process, he became the first player to win three times (2021, 2024, 2025). A total of 65 points in the shooting was 55 %, while 14 follow -up, 12 assists, five blocks and four theft in three great victories for the East Championship.

“There are two ways that one of them can go,” said Orima. “They can either panic or stress about what will happen after that, or they can enjoy at the present time, and make the most of that and have the final statement. Let’s hope it will continue in the path of the latter, but this is what it is now.”

The seeds had this view in her eyes on Monday night, which she says suffers from hunger for her final chapters in Uconn after she was marginalized for both the second year and the transmission due to injuries. The great goalkeeper, who is 6 feet long, does not indicate anyone at the present time, instead he took things in her hands and driving the game. When Buecker’s hunger combines a prosperous student in Sarah Strong, the nightmare of the final match, it is a completely scary mix.

Strong has the ability to process the game at the elite level, while it is not applicable and not leaving anything that slows it.

“It is my favorite feature … it is only playing,” said Orima, who raised the fact that beginners sometimes need this point where they don’t try to think much.

But this is not the case with Strong, whose mother, Alison Vester, a player of Ivy League three times at Harvard University and Wnba Pro for 10 years, who played his father, Danny, in North Carolina and then abroad.

After performing 20 points, 16 winning Uconn’s victory over Villanova in the semi -finals, Strong won 13 points, 11 rebounds, six theft, four passes and three blocs in the title game win. When uconn becomes the smallest with her in fifth place and her guards around her, this is what Fenery refers to as “their death squad”.

“Sarah is the best and difficult player through them in the face of this since Brana Stewart,” Saint John’s coach Joe Tartamela told Fox Sport coach by phone after winning at Ocun University on Monday evening. “Strong complements them if it is at the top of its game because the seed is driven, Kaitlyn Chen and Azzi Fudd is X.”

Tartamella also sparked the fact that this Uconn team did not celebrate until Monday night. In the past years, the Huskies team has shown more accusative about winning the conference championship title, but this seemed to seem to be a staircase of peace as if it were a very realistic result for the first time in several years: a national title.

Auriemma 11 won a national championship in Uconn, the last time in 2016. But the way his team plays is now giving him a good opportunity like anyone else.

The passion of extravagance and real endeavors, and they are powerful to its name in every way. The strong structure is a cart, and it was shown on Monday night.

John Vanta is an anchor and national basketball writer in Fox Sports. It covers sport in a variety of capabilities, from connecting to the FS1 games to working as a major host on the Big East Digital Network to provide comments in the field of 68 media networks. Follow it in john_fanta.

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