UConn at South Carolina women's basketball: How to watch Paige Bueckers take on defending champs

Geno Auriemma vs.

Dawn Staley.

Paige Bueckers, Sarah Strong and the nations top offense on the road against the steely reigning champions.

A Sunday College GameDay game with a federal holiday on Monday.

Dont mind if we do.

Sundays showdown puts the winningest coach in the NCAA (Auriemma) alongside the highest-paid coach in womens basketball (Staley).

Genos Huskies were the standard-bearers of the sport, with a four-peat from 2012-16 and 11 championships since 1995.

The Gamecocks are the incumbent dynasty two national titles, one perfect season and five total losses in the last four seasons.

Advertisement Bueckers is a full-blown sensation as a senior, on the floor and in the ratings .

Shes a few made free throws shy of a 50/40/90 season on team-high usage.

She has the lowest turnover percentage in the Big East and the best offensive rating in the country.

She does buoyant, swaggering stuff like this: This was NICE https://t.co/JWOJ384YNv pic.twitter.com/XsqC7KHxzd UConn Womens Basketball (@UConnWBB) January 26, 2025 If opponents fixate on Bueckers, an increasingly steady and ambitious playmaker, there are many other stressors to handle.

Even amid a mini-slump, freshman phenom Sarah Strong leads the conference in both effective shooting and defensive rating that is really, really cool.

And senior heat-check Azzi Fudd is indeed heating up.

She was balling out in UConns last game, a blowout of St.

Johns, and is 63 percent (!) behind the arc on seven tries per game (!!) in her last five games.

South Carolinas Feb.

9 loss to Texas was a tough one, but this is still the singular team to beat come tourney time.

The Gamecocks are first in Basketball References simple rating system, with a swarming defense and seemingly endless depth.

Even with junior forward Ashlyn Watkins out, eight different players are playing at least 19 minutes a game.

The top two leading scorers (freshman Joyce Edwards and sophomore MiLaysia Fulwiley) dont even start.

Staleys squad took the Texas loss out on the misfortunate Florida Gators last time out: .

@MilaysiaF makes it SECNetwork pic.twitter.com/paEWWHTz7D South Carolina Women's Basketball (@GamecockWBB) February 14, 2025 Elle Duncan, Andraya Carter and Chiney Ogwumike will be on ESPN, live from Columbia, S.C., two hours prior to tip-off.

The broadcast shifts over to ABC at game time.

UConn leads the all-time series 9-5, but South Carolina has won the last four meetings.

Connecticut took eight straight from 2007-19.

(Photo of Paige Bueckers: Johnnie Izquierdo / Getty Images).

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