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The Huskies navigated an irregular season just to get to the title game, but their championship drought goes on.

Much like how they sat atop the rankings all season long, the Gamecocks dominated from start to finish Sunday to win the program’s second championship.

Maybe, somewhere in the back of their minds, their semifinal game having been won, there was hope in the South Carolina locker room for a rematch. You know, getting a shot at Stanford, the team that knocked it from the Final Four last year.

MINNEAPOLIS — Paige Bueckers was devastated and confused and having a hard time processing that her high school basketball career was over, one game shy of what was supposed to be her coronation.

MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe, somewhere in the back of their minds, their semifinal game having been won, there was hope in the South Carolina locker room for a rematch. You know, getting a shot at Stanford, the team that knocked it from the Final Four last year.

On a night when the Huskies’ top players didn’t play their best, they still knocked off the defending champs.

MINNEAPOLIS — The game might not have gone according to plan, but for the thousands of fans who cheered Paige Bueckers' every move, it went to script.

The star guard was making shot after shot in the double-overtime marathon outing as the Huskies secured their 14th straight Final Four appearance.

Geno Auriemma sits at the intermission of the 2021-22 UConn women’s basketball season, the couple of days between a tumultuous regular season and the postseason that will determine how far the Huskies have come — and gone. At his desk in the Werth Center, he is surrounded by 11 championship…

HARTFORD, Conn. — That monster of a team everyone was envisioning during the dark, dreary days of December and January arrived.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Sunday’s win over Tennessee may have represented the promise of this UConn women’s basketball team, but a mere three days later, on the same court in Hartford where the Huskies demolished a then-top-10 team, Wednesday featured an unraveling.