The Athletic has live coverage of UConn vs South Carolina in the March Madness women’s national championship game.
TAMPA, Fla. — A year after women’s college basketball made history by pulling in a larger television audience for its national championship than the men’s title game, the question always lingered: How, possibly, could this upward momentum continue?
There were the individual stars, who, after Caitlin Clark’s departure for the WNBA, could continue to carry the game forward — JuJu Watkins, Paige Bueckers, Flau’jae Johnson — and marquee nonconference games between the top contending teams in the country sprinkled throughout the year. But in the same way that a team cements its legacy in March and April, so too does a season make its final mark on how it will be remembered in these last days of the season.
There’s no more fitting way, no better way to continue to move women’s basketball forward than to have the two biggest programs with the two most important coaches in the game on opposite benches this Sunday, vying for the national title.
Of course, it’s not Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley on the court, though both will have their fingerprints all over this game. Because it’s Staley and Auriemma, UConn and South Carolina, the familiarity and their…
