Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images Aliyah Boston and South Carolina face UConn with the national title up for grabs on Sunday.
The last two AP National Player of the Year award winners face off with a title on the line Sunday night, when Aliyah Boston and the South Carolina Gamecocks take on Paige Bueckers and the UConn Huskies in the NCAA Women’s National Championship Game in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The game (8 p.m. ET start time) will be televised on ESPN. But if you don’t have cable, here are some different ways you can watch a live stream of South Carolina vs UConn online:
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South Carolina vs UConn Preview
The South Carolina Gamecocks will look to complete a wire-to-wire season atop the rankings with a national title when they face the 11-time champion UConn Huskies in the NCAA Women’s Championship Game on Sunday night at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
South Carolina has held the No. 1 ranking in the AP poll for the duration of the season and tied a program-record with 34 wins. The Gamecocks are 13-0 against AP-ranked teams, where the average scoring margin has been 13 points.
UConn, who suffered their most defeats in a season since 2012, has overcome injuries and COVID-19 issues en route to making its 14th consecutive Final Four appearance. The Huskies will be putting their perfect 11-0 mark in national title games on the line against the Gamecocks.
Sunday night’s affair will feature the top two players in the women’s collegiate game pitted against each other with a championship up for grabs. The Gamecocks’ Aliyah Boston was the AP National Player of the Year this season, while the Huskies’ Paige Bueckers took home the award last year.
Here’s a look at the breakdown for each team as they head into the marquee matchup that will decide who celebrates amid the confetti:
No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks (34-2)
South Carolina is looking to win its first national title since 2017 when they captured the first championship in program history.
The Gamecocks’ road to the final has included NCAA Tournament wins over Howard (79-21), Miami (FL) (49-33), North Carolina (69-61), Creighton (80-50), and Louisville (72-59).
The reigning national player of the year Aliyah Boston leads the team in scoring and rebounding with 17.0 points and 12.4 rebounds per game. The junior forward has recorded 29 double-doubles and broke the program’s single-season rebound record with 446 boards.
The Gamecocks feature two more players who average double-digit points per game in senior guard Destanni Henderson (11.1 ppg) and junior guard Zia Cooke (10.7 ppg).
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley is looking to lead the Gamecocks to their second national title and cement this squad’s place in history.
“I say what we said all season long: Our history over their history,” said Staley prior to Sunday’s matchup. “It’s not just UConn, it’s just when we played anybody. Because when we’ve lost this season, it was a historical moment for our opponents. For Missouri, it was a historical moment for Kentucky. We need to choose our history. We want to imprint our history in the basketball history books.”
No. 2 UConn Huskies (30-5)
UConn and their head coach Geno Auriemma will be looking to cut down the nets for the 12th time with a win over top-seeded South Carolina on Sunday night.
The Huskies have won 15 straight games including NCAA Tournament wins over Mercer (83-38), UCF (52-47), Indiana (75-58), North Carolina State (91-87, 2OT), and the defending national champion Stanford (63-58).
Sophomore guard Paige Bueckers has looked like the player who was the national player of the year in 2021 in this tournament, where she is averaging nearly 16 points a game. Bueckers, who went to high school just 10 miles from the Final Four site, returned to the lineup at the tail-end of the season after missing 19 games due to a left knee injury.
“We know everybody in the world doesn’t think we’re going to win, so we’re like, we might as well just prove everybody wrong and prove ourselves right. We’ve got one more game, we’re not satisfied with this,” said Bueckers following the win over Stanford in the national semifinals. “We’re just trying to win a national championship and leave everything out on the line and it’s our last game of the season, so we have nothing left to give.”
Three Huskies average double-digit points per game, including Bueckers and senior guard Christyn Williams at 14.6, and freshman guard Azzi Fudd at 12.7.
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