Two of the nation’s best teams are finally meeting. And it’s happening on Friday night at 9 p.m. ET (ESPN/ESPN2) in Tampa.
UCLA has the chance to close out the best regular season in program history with a national championship. UConn hasn’t won an NCAA title in nine seasons, the longest drought under head coach Geno Auriemma since his first ring in 1995. The hardest part of winning a championship is getting there; now both sides are one game away.
Why Betts and Bueckers will define this matchup
UConn is the only non-No. 1 seed to make the Final Four in both the women’s and men’s tournaments, but that’s not saying much. Not only could the Huskies have easily been a top seed, they lucked out and faced a JuJu Watkins-less USC team to win their region. Still not an easy task, but it certainly made them favorites. They breezed through their side of the first Super Region (a concept that Auriemma has been overtly critical of), but now must face an equally-dominant UCLA team in Tampa.
The Bruins will be the best team that UConn has played in the tournament, and possibly all season. They’re a…
