INDIANAPOLIS -- Katie Lou Samuelson was elevating on a layup on the first scoring play of the national semifinals Sunday when she says she felt something.
When the UConn freshman came down, she still felt it. Through the entire first half, in fact, she felt it.
"It hurt, but I have never broken a bone before, so I didn't know that's what it was," Samuelson said Monday, about 15 hours after sustaining a broken bone in her left foot that will knock her out of Tuesday's national championship game against Syracuse (ESPN/WatchESPN, 8:30 p.m. ET).