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How UConn women’s basketball willed its way to Final Four win over Stanford

With 7:35 left in the fourth quarter against Stanford, Olivia Nelson-Ododa stepped up to the line with the chance to give UConn a commanding eight-point lead.

The first free throw took a nearly direct route to the basket — a line drive that somehow went through the cylinder. The second hit the front of the rim and took a friendly bounce that rolled up and over into the net.

“The two free throws, one was like a bullet, and the other one hit the bottom of the rim and somehow rolled up and went in,” Geno Auriemma said postgame.