Highlights - UConn WBB 79, Louisville 66

Bob Joyce runs thru the hihglights of the Huskies 30th straight season opening win. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Huskies got off to a fabulous Startlet eight nothing right
out of the gate. Sarah Williams the first two of
the season off of steel fifty five seconds in. Then
it was three balls, one by easy fud, the other
by kk Arnold. Shay looking down low for Williams, finds
her on the left against Ziegler, goes right into a
double team, gives it off to Arnold.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Here's a three from the right.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
She bends it in and Jeff Walls calls for time
right away, and boy, if kk Arnold gets going, that
makes you come that much more dangerous. Arnold with nine
of her thirteen points early in the game for ucon
Aasy Fudd had eight early for the Huskies.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
He second three put the Huskies up by fourteen.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Branda Scott outlet passed strong, went for the past rot
the blow by passing sign it off.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
He gets the tip.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Heckle the steel down the middle off the fud transition
three bulls.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Ah, easy fad nos, but give me any breathing space,
green light, I'm shooting at it.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Twenty five nine.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
After the first, they were eleven of twenty in the
first ten minutes. Louisville was three of eighteen. Kk Arnold
continued to her offensive assault. She had thirteen, but then
Kaylee Heckel got herself into the mix. Two wonderful finishes,
one from Azy Fud, the other from Sarah Strong.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Kaylee Heckle back in. Heckle to the.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Front court, spins and weaves left, back door to Strong.
Strong lost the handle, gets it back, goes back door,
Heckle lays it up and end for a dime of
the game. Talk to you by Dime Bank Covinity Banking
lives here. First field goal of the second for Heckle
that made at thirty six twenty. And then what can
you say about Sarah Strong? Thirteen points in the first half,

(01:41):
and sometimes she just made it look effortless, drung faceline right,
trying to muscle her way down, turns right, floats it unfair,
my word, that is just unfair.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Cases the basket back to the bank.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
We get to see this for three four years. Ye
forty four to twenty three. At the half, Yukon shot
forty nine percent in the first half. Arnold and Strong
with thirteen each. Sarah also had six rebounds four assists
in the first half. Second half, Ashland Shade was zero
for five, but we know she's a streaky shooter. Three
minutes into the third, a three, and then the next

(02:19):
possession a nice transition too, rebounded by k k Arnold,
and she's off to the races. Weaves her way through traffic,
off the shade, fakes on a three long two from
the right pull side, fundamentally sound. Lots of free throws
after that field goal that made it fifty five twenty seven,

(02:40):
and Louisville mostly to the free throw line. One of
the Yukon hoops, however, though a second chance and one
Sarah Williams.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Again to Kaylee Heckel.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Here's Heckel fires up a three from the left wing
that misses, rebounded by Williams looking for a pass. It's
heckl She drives, gets hitting scores, and the free throw
made it sixty one, thirty eight, sixty one forty through three.
Asy fun and Sarah Strong. A nice combination. We hope

(03:09):
we hear those names on buckets all season long to
one another. Here Sarah Strong setting up her buddy.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
For a deuce.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Strong inside fud banker from the right.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Mode cost Hotlerville sleeping right there. That's one of those
where if you'd forget about the inbounder.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
They come in, nobody's on them. Sarah Strong knew it.
Fifth assists for Sarah. Now.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
It was sixty nine forty eight at that point, and
we thought the game might be over. But Louisville made
a run thirteen to two. As you cun could not
buy a hoop and they couldn't make it three. They
just made one to three in the second half, and
Louisville got it down to ten at seventy three sixty three,
but Sarah Strong finished off the Cardinals. Well, this is
not exactly how you kind of wanted to end this one.

(03:54):
Here's Heckle down low, Strong banks it up and in
and the foul baby that puts this one to bed
free throw made Huskies pull away and win it seventy
nine sixty six.