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Hobbling Bulls tread carefully into UConn

WILL VRAGOVIC | Times

Roughly 23 hours after wrapping up their emotional Senior Day triumph against Temple, the Bulls women landed in Storrs, Conn., leaving all of Saturday's pageantry -- and pressure -- behind.

Whereas the Bulls needed that 76-62 victory to secure the American Athletic Conference tournament's No. 2 seed and, perhaps, a more favorable NCAA bracket, no such must-win gravity weighed them down on Sunday's flight to New England. Top-ranked UConn (28-0, 17-0) long ago clinched the AAC regular season title and the tourney's top seed.

"Leave it on the floor," senior Courtney Williams said of her team's mindset entering their Big Monday matchup against the Huskies.