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2025 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
The 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. It determined the champion of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and was contested by the No. 2 seed 2024–25 UConn Huskies women's basketball team, UConn Huskies from the Big East Conference and the No. 1 seed 2024–25 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team, South Carolina Gamecocks from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game was played on April 6, 2025, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. UConn defeated South Carolina, 82–59, to win the school's twelfth national championship and their first since 2016 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game, 2016. The teams traded the lead for much of the first quarter; South Carolina's Te-Hina Paopao scored the game's first points, and Sarah Strong, Chloe Kitts, Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, and Raven Johnson all scored in the first five minutes, after which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference (stylized as BIG EAST) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference that competes in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I in 10 men's sports and 12 women's sports. Headquartered in New York City, the 11 full-member schools are primarily located in Northeastern United States, Northeast and Midwestern United States, Midwest metropolitan areas. The conference was officially recognized as a Division I multi-sport conference on August 1, 2013, and since then conference members have won NCAA national championships in men's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, men's lacrosse, and men's soccer. Val Ackerman is the commissioner. The conference was formed after the "Catholic Seven" members of the Big East Conference (1979–2013), original Big East Conference elected to split from the football-playing schools in order to start a new conference focused on basketball. These schools (DePaul University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season
The 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 4, 2024. The regular season ended on March 16, 2025, with the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with the championship game at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on April 6. Rule changes On May 2, 2024, the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee proposed a few rule changes for the 2024–25 season. These changes were approved on June 6 by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel. * A one-game suspension has been added to the ejection of any player, coach, or bench personnel who "disrespectfully contacts an official or makes a threat of physical intimidation or harm, to include pushing, shoving, spitting or attempting to make physical contact with an official". * Officials will be able to review whether a player's foot last touching the court was inbounds on a made shot before time expired. If a player's foot is determined to be out of bounds, officials ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Rankings
Two human polls maed up the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Legend AP Poll The women's basketball poll began during the 1976–77 season, and was initially compiled by Mel Greenberg and published by ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. At first, it was a poll of coaches conducted via telephone, where coaches identified top teams and a list of the Top 20 teams was produced. The contributors continued to be coaches until 1994, when the AP took over administration of the poll from Greenberg, and switched to a panel of writers. USA Today Coaches Poll The Coaches Poll is the second oldest poll still in use after the AP Poll. It is compiled by a rotating group of 31 college Division I head coaches. The Poll operates by Borda count The Borda method or order of merit is a positional voting rule that gives each candidate a number of points equal to the number of candidates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Today
''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in New York City. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. As of 2023, ''USA Today'' has the fifth largest print circulation in the United States, with 132,640 print subscribers. It has two million digital subscribers, the fourth-largest online circulation of any U.S. newspaper. ''USA Today'' is distributed in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and an international edition is distributed in Asia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storrs, Connecticut
Storrs ( ) is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the New England town, town of Mansfield, Connecticut, Mansfield in eastern Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The village is part of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region. The population was 15,979 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Storrs is dominated economically and demographically by the main campus of the University of Connecticut and the associated Connecticut Repertory Theatre. History Storrs was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who founded the University of Connecticut (originally called the Storrs Agricultural College) by giving the land () and $6,000 in 1881. In the aftermath of September 2005's Hurricane Katrina, ''Slate (magazine), Slate'' named Storrs "America's Best Place to Avoid Death Due to Natural Disaster." Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has an area of 14.9 km (5.7 mi2), of which 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, then took its current name in 1939. Over the following decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programs were established. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. UConn is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. With more than 32,000 students, the University of Connecticut is the largest university in Connecticut by enrollment. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". UConn is one of the founding institutions of the Hartford- Springfield regional economic and cultural partnership alliance known as New England's Knowledge Corridor. UConn was the second U.S. university i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KK Arnold
Kamorea "KK" Arnold (born May 16, 2005) is an American college basketball player for the UConn Huskies of the Big East Conference. Early life and high school career Arnold was born to Kim and Mike Arnold, and has two older siblings, Mike and MiMi. She attended Germantown High School in Germantown, Wisconsin. During her sophomore year, she averaged 22.9 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 3.8 steals per game, and was named the Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year, and AP Wisconsin State Player of the Year. She led the Warhawks to a 29–1 record and the Division 1 state championship, where she scored 31 points in the 63–48 championship win over Hudson. During her junior year, she averaged 24.8 points, 7.9 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 4.4 steals, and was again named the Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year and AP Wisconsin State Player of the Year. During her senior year, she averaged 23.3 points, 7.7 rebounds, 7.7 assists and 3.3 steals per game, and was named the AP Wisconsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven Johnson
Raven Johnson (born March 4, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). High school career Johnson played basketball for Westlake High School in Atlanta. She played alongside Ta'Niya Latson and helped her team win four straight state titles. Johnson was twice named Miss Georgia Basketball by the Atlanta Tipoff Club and ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' All-Classification Player of the Year. As a senior, she received Naismith Prep Player of the Year and Georgia Gatorade Player of the Year honors and was a McDonald's All-American selection. Johnson was the first woman to play in a men's All-American Game at 2021 Iverson Classic Recruiting Johnson was rated a five-star recruit, the number two player and the top point guard in the 2021 class by ESPN. On June 25, 2020, she committed to play college basketball for South Carolina. College career Johnson suffered a season-ending left knee injury in her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paige Bueckers
Paige Madison Bueckers ( ; born October 20, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the UConn Huskies women's basketball, UConn Huskies where she led her team to four Big East Tournament wins, four Final Four appearances, and a National Championship title. Nicknamed "Paige Buckets", Bueckers attended Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minnesota and was ranked as the number one college recruiting, recruit in her class by ESPN, receiving List of U.S. high school basketball national player of the year awards, national high school player of the year honors. In her first season at University of Connecticut, UConn, Bueckers became the first freshman to be named national women's player of the year and helped her team reach the Final four, Final Four. She missed most of her sophomore season and her entire Junior (education year), junior season with knee injuries but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Kitts
Chloe Kitts (born August 5, 2004) is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Early life and high school career Kitts lived in Puyallup, Washington, and then moved to Oviedo, Florida in the third grade. As a freshman in high school, she played basketball foThe Master's Academyin Oviedo, helping her team reach the Class 3A state title game. For her sophomore season, Kitts transferred to DME Academy in Daytona Beach, Florida. As a junior, she averaged 18.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, leading the team to its first GEICO Nationals appearance. Kitts intended to transfer to Faith Christian Academy in Orlando, Florida following the season, before bypassing her senior year and enrolling early in college. She was rated a five-star recruit by ESPN and committed to South Carolina over offers from Louisville, Duke, NC State and Arizona. She was ranked fourth in the nation by Prospects Nation. College career On Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Strong
Sarah Strong (born February 3, 2006) is an American-French college basketball player for the UConn Huskies of the Big East Conference. She was ranked the number one recruit in the 2024 class by ESPN. Early life and high school career Strong was born on February 3, 2006, in Madrid, Spain. She spent the first 10 years of her life living with her parents in Spain and is fluent in Spanish. Strong played her freshman year at Fuquay-Varina High School in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, and averaged 25 points and 19 rebounds per game. After that season, she moved to Grace Christian School in Sanford, North Carolina, and won three consecutive NCISAA state titles as the team went 91–4 over three years and finished on a 41-game undefeated streak. As a senior, she averaged 21.0 points, 16.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 2.8 steals per game in 2023–24. She was named North Carolina Miss Basketball in 2023 and 2024 and was selected to play in the 2024 McDonald's All-American Girls Game. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te-Hina Paopao
Te-Hina Olive-Talaave Paopao (born August 21, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball, South Carolina and Oregon Ducks women's basketball, Oregon. High school career Paopao played basketball for La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, San Diego, California. As a 10 year old, Paopao was the starting point guard for a U16 team. When she was 14 years old, Kelsey Plum said of Paopao, "She's just never scared. It's like a fearlessness but a confidence that she has... I think she could start in the Pac-12 right now... Honestly, I think she could be the best to come out of San Diego." Plum would often invite Paopao to train with her, stating "Even to this day, when I go back, that's the only kid I would let work out with me, because she can hang with the intensity... She pushes me because I'm like, 'I can't let a 12-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
