MINNEAPOLIS — Christyn Williams put into words what most were thinking late Monday night after Connecticut slipped into its 14th consecutive Final Four in a double-overtime thriller.
“Literally I was thinking, we have Paige Bueckers and they don’t,” UConn’s senior guard said, a play on head coach Geno Auriemma’s “we have Diana Taurasi and you don’t” quip two decades ago.
A back-to-form Bueckers was the difference-maker for the Huskies in those extra two periods to outlast NC State and preserve the program’s historic streak. And while she is far and away the most clutch player of this tournament, every team here in Minneapolis has a game changer who turned it up these last three weeks.