USC put up a fight. But ultimately, Paige Bueckers and Sarah Strong — and the absence of JuJu Watkins — proved too much to overcome.

UConn has dominated the college basketball world each of the past two seasons, winning back-to-back national titles.Though it may be a much harder road for the Huskies to "three-peat" this season, they believe they have what it takes to make it back and play for yet another crown.

Beers was a five-star recruit and the No. 10 overall player and the No. 3 center in the 2022 recruiting class by ESPN HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings. She attended Valor Christian in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where she was a McDonald's All-American and Gatorade Player of the Year in 2022.

The UConn Huskies take on the Oklahoma Sooners in the Sweet 16 of the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament on Saturday, March 29.

UConn, the two-time reigning NCAA champions who’ve endured a season of angst, survived Oklahoma, 67-59, in a tense first-round game Friday night at the Lenovo Center. The victory was UConn’s 13th consecutive win in the NCAA Tournament spanning the past three seasons.

In each of the previous two instances, Connecticut lost. The gravity of what being down four points to Oklahoma after a disjointed first half could mean started to settle in senior Bueckers’ mind.

UConn's points-allowed average over its past 10 games (49.9) is 1.6 fewer points per game than the team is allowing over the entire season (51.5). Oklahoma has performed worse offensively in its ...

Paige Bueckers scored a career-high 40 points, rescuing UConn from its first-half doldrums and single-handedly turning a tight game against Oklahoma into an 82-59 rout on Saturday that sent the Huskies to the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA Tournament.

Paige Bueckers (5) and the UConn Huskies will take on the Oklahoma Sooners Saturday in the Sweet 16. See how you can watch today's game for free without cable.