No. 6 UConn Wins 20th Big East Title, Tops Villanova 70-40
By DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — There wasn’t too much doubt that UConn would win its 20th Big East championship.
Now Geno Auriemma and the Huskies will turn their attention to trying to win a 12th national title. And they’ll need Paige Bueckers to continue to get healthier to do it.
“She’s got a lot of work to do. She has her good days, her bad days,” Auriemma said. “She has her good days mentally, her bad days mentally. My big thing is, yeah, get her physically feeling better. She has to get her mind right now. She hasn’t been in that mode for three moths or whatever it is now. That will be job number one (the) next 10 or 11 days.”
Even without getting much from Bueckers, the Huskies had more than enough to beat Villanova...