PORTLAND, Ore. - While UConn women's basketball sophomore star Azzi Fudd's name is in all the latest headlines, the Huskies are far from just a one-woman show.
That diversity showed Friday in the No. 3 Huskies' first road game of the season.
Fairfield grad transfer Lou Lopez Sénéchal paced UConn to a 78-50 win over Duke in the first round of the Phil Knight Legacy Tournament at the Chiles Center on the University of Portland campus.
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The win advances the Huskies (4-0) to Sunday's championship where they will face No. 9 Iowa (which beat Oregon State 73-59 in the second semifinal) in their third top-10 matchup of the last four games.
And Lopez Sénéchal (23 points, six rebounds on 8 of 13 shooting) wasn't the only player who had a standout night.
Sophomore point guard Nika Mühl recorded 10 assists for her second-straight double-figure assist game since setting the program single-game record with 15 against NC State on Sunday. Aaliyah Edwards led UConn’s frontcourt with her third double-double of the year, finishing with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Fudd, meanwhile, finished with a season-low 14 points.
"You either work really, really hard to keep getting Azzi more shots or let it happen within the flow, so tried to do a little bit of both," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "But when you have someone on the other side of the floor like Lou, it puts a lot of pressure on the defense because there's so much attention being paid to Azzi that there's not enough left for when we change sides on the floor for what we want to do we Lou and Lou is just a scorer.
"She just gets the ball and knows what she wants to do. There's no hesitation and she's a terrific, terrific shooter and her mid-range game is really really good and she has a mature game."
26 ноя 2022
