德克萨斯州的沃思堡-全美前锋莎拉·斯特朗拿下21分，布兰卡·基诺内斯拿下20分，卫冕全国冠军康涅狄格大学在周日的沃思堡地区1决赛中以70比52击败圣母大学，让教练热诺·奥里埃玛和哈士奇队进入了他们的第25个四强女子NCAA锦标赛.
哈士奇队(38-0)，他们有连胜54场比赛在凤凰城获得了四强的第一名。他们将争夺第13次全国冠军。
康涅狄格大学的另一位一线队AP全美新秀Azzi Fudd得到13分和4次助攻。
汉娜·伊达尔戈为战斗的爱尔兰队(25-11)拿下22分和11个篮板，再加上三次抢断，使她的NCAA单赛季纪录增加到202次，NCAA单场比赛纪录增加到29次。但是她也有五次失误，这是她10场NCAA巡回赛中第一次失误多于抢断。
爱斯基摩犬和爱尔兰人之间的第九次NCAA比武大会是他们的第一次晋级四强。他们在三月疯狂中的前八次相遇都取得了成功，最后一次是在2019年，当时圣母大学在半决赛中战胜了康涅狄格大学，然后在冠军赛中输给了贝勒大学。
这是自那以后圣母大学第一次晋级16强。
虽然这场比赛比1月19日更接近康涅狄格大学赢了38分在这场57场系列赛中最不平衡的比赛中(康涅狄格大学以41-16领先)，爱尔兰人无法战胜翻滚的哈士奇队。
在第三节近五分钟的比赛中，康涅狄格大学连续11次投篮不中，一分未得，爱尔兰队只得了不到8分。伊达尔戈的唯一得分是一次跳投和两次罚球，但也对那段时间的四次失误中的三次负责。
这包括富德从伊达尔戈的抢断和贾纳埃尔阿飞的上篮，结束了得分荒，并在第三节还剩3分51秒时将哈士奇队的比分扩大到40-30。
康涅狄格在第二节的59秒内以6分的成绩首次取得两位数的领先优势，此前不久，伊达尔戈在一次3分尝试中认为自己被犯规，而不是被斯特朗封盖。
这导致了基诺内斯的上篮，随后伊达尔戈抢回了一个失误，并协助艾丽·齐贝尔突破上篮。在上半场还剩2分56秒时，大东部新生和年度第六名球员基诺内斯抢断，导致福德跳投得分，以30-20领先。
UConn beats Notre Dame 70-52 to secure 25th women's Final Four appearance
FORT WORTH, Texas --All-America forward Sarah Strong scored 21 points, Blanca Quiñonez added 20 and defending national champion UConn beat Notre Dame 70-52 on Sunday in the Fort Worth Regional 1 final, sending coach Geno Auriemma and the Huskies to their 25th Final Four in thewomen's NCAA Tournament.
The Huskies (38-0), who havewon 54 games in a row, clinched the first spot for the Final Four in Phoenix. They will be going for their 13th national championship.
Azzi Fudd, UConn's other first-team AP All-America pick, added 13 points and four assists.
Hannah Hidalgo had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Fighting Irish (25-11), plus three more steals to increase her NCAA single-season record to 202 and single NCAA tourney mark to 29. But she also had five turnovers, the first time in her 10 NCAA tourney games with more turnovers than steals.
The ninth NCAA tourney meeting between the Huskies and the Irish was theirfirst with a spot in the Final Four on the line. They had both made it that far the first eight times they met in March Madness, the last in 2019 when Notre Dame won a semifinal game over UConn and then lost to Baylor in the title game.
This was the first time Notre Dame had made it past the Sweet 16 since then.
While this game was closer than January 19 whenUConn won by 38 pointsin the most-lopsided game in the 57-game series (UConn leads 41-16), the Irish couldn't overcome the rolling Huskies.
During a nearly five-minute stretch in the third quarter when UConn went scoreless while missing 11 consecutive shots, the Irish got no closer than eight points. Hidalgo had a jumper and two free throws for their only points, but also was responsible for three of their four turnovers in that span.
That included Fudd’s steal from Hidalgo and Jana El Alfy’s layup that ended the scoring drought and put the Huskies up 40-30 with 3:51 left in the third quarter.
UConn took its first double-digit lead with six points in a 59-second span in the second quarter, soon after Hidalgo furiously responded when she thought she was fouled on a 3-point attempt that was instead a blocked shot by Strong.
That led to a driving layup by Quiñonez, who followed by rebounding a miss by Hidalgo and assisting on a breaking layup by Allie Ziebell. Quiñonez, the Big East freshman and sixth player of the year, than had a steal that led to a pullup jumper by Fudd for a 30-20 lead with 2:56 left in the first half.
