No. 1 UConn (23-0 12-0 Big East) defeated No. 15 Tennessee (14-5, 6-1 SEC), 96-66, on Sunday at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut. The defending national champion Huskies have won 39 consecutive games in a row.
Second-year Tennessee head coach Kim Caldwell recapped the top 15 matchup.
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“That’s a really good team, and when you take plays off, they make you pay for every play off,” Caldwell said. “A lot of what we did was self-inflicted, but then again, if you lose sight of your man for half of a second, they’re going to capitalize on it, and that’s why they are are doing what they’re doing right now.”
Geno Auriemma, a 12-time national title head coach for UConn, also discussed the matchup, ending a one-game losing streak in the basketball series versus the Lady Vols.
“It was almost like a tale, of like we played three games today, you know, we played the first quarter, kind of sort of, and we played the second quarter, and then we played the second half,” Auriemma said.
The contest was tied, 42-42, at halftime and UConn outscored the Lady Vols, 54-24, in the second half.
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