The road ends here: The South Carolina Gamecocks will take on UConn, the Goliath of women’s college basketball, for a chance at their second national championship tonight.
Second-seeded Connecticut has largely rolled through the tournament to get here, handling 15 seed Mercer, 7th-seeded UCF, third-seeded Indiana, prevailing in a double-overtime thriller against No. 1 N.C. State, and eliminating No. 1 Stanford, the defending national champion.
The Huskies are also enjoying the return of a healthy Paige Bueckers, who starred while powering UConn past the Cardinal and came up huge in the overtime periods against the Wolfpack. Notably, though, UConn lost forward Dorka Jurhasz to a wrist injury in the Final Four.