Highlights - USC 72, UConn WBB 70

Bob Joyce reviews the Huskies two point loss to USC Saturday Night in Hartford

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well. A sellout crowd of fifteen to six eighty four
saw a great comeback by UCT falls shorts as USC
escapes with a seventy two to seventy win over Yukon is.
The Huskies led just once in this one, and that
came in the fourth quarter, but USC able to make
enough plays at the end and enough free throws, and

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the Huskies fall to ten and two on the season,
losing their second top ten game of the season. And
USC forced the issue right away. They started out nine
to nothing. Juju Watkins scored five of those first nine points,
but a Yukon run of ten two got them to
within ten to eleven ten, and Sarah Strong was able

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to get the Huskies in that run with a three
ball the Huskies first of the night. Beckers will inbound
into Shade in the left corner gives the Strong left
wing for three, got it thirteen ten USC. At the
first media time out at eighteen ten, USC scoring exchange
by the two top individuals of this game, Paige Beckers

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for Yukon, Juju Watkins for the Trojans. Arnold gives tell
Alfie at the right elbow for the Huskies. Going left
to right gives the Beckers Page a long two for
the wing is good. Second field goal for Page, She's
got four. That ends the run. It's eighteen twelve mes C.
Two minutes to go in the first. Now Watkins looks
to answer, makes a three top of the key. Boy,
that's almost a running gun. All Richld already ten for

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Juju Watkins twenty four point fifteen sc after when they
were ten of twenty in the first, Yukon was five
of fourteen teams traded hoops in the second. The problem
was well, Yukon was scoring twos. USC was making threes.
Kennedy Smith here for the Trojans. Ronald Hoffen pass caught
by Arie Off and off to Heckle in the corner.

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Open three for Smith. Got it this good ball moving
by Southern col Right there, Yukon was scrambling. USC made.
They were consecutive threes in the game. They built their
biggest lead of the game at this point, thirteen, and
Juju Watkins was the leader of the gang. For Sci.
Watkins goes right, gets cut off off a screen for three,

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makes it. Marshall set the screen vicious one on Shad
and Juju Barry's that she's got fifteen, USC took the lead.
At the half they had forty two, Yukon had twenty nine,
as USC was seven of eleven from three in the
first half, Ukond was just two of nine and it
was the biggest halftime deficit of the season. And it

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looked as if the Trojans were gonna run away as
they took an eighteen point lead at fifty one thirty
three with seven thirty five left, but the Husky started
to chip away, starting with Paige Beckers inbound to Shade
gives the Beckers perimeter left, works inside the pull up,
good elbow left jumper for Page Beckers. Then it was

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seven straight points for the Huskies to get them to
within nine. Kk Arnold, Sarah Strong, and then Ashland Shades.
First three of the ball game, Harry Offen dribbles to
the right to Heckel. Heckle goes left. Arnold days whether Heckle,
the ram lays it up man He's got a block
by Strong. Arnold rebounds, dashes to the front court, but
Essi's back trailer three. Ashland Shade bullside I Ben at

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fifty three forty four. That was Shade's last hoop of
the ballgame led to a timeout. Yukon ends the third
with a twelve to run kk Arnold with a beautiful
back door finish to get the Huskies within six through three.
Here's Shade to Strong top of the key, back door,
Arnold the ketch and layup from the right, so he

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stole the fourth at sixty two fifty four to two
minutes in the fourth, the Huskies climbed within one with
a nine to two run. In that run of big
three from Morgan Shelley Page in the corner for Shade
on the right, off two, Shelley hands off to Beckers,
Page goes right, gives to Celle She's free shoot the

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three shudding. This was part of an eleven to two
run that gave Yukon the lead, their only lead of
the game with four thirty four lefts and it was
Sarah Strong that put them up. Chet off a double
screen left to right, picked up by Smith, Becker's loops
at the Strong at the elbow left against Watkins goes

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right to the Revens stars and u kN has their
first lead, but Juju Watkins got an and one to
put them up two, and then the last tie of
the game came with two twenty four left courtesy of Pagebeckers, Watkins,
guarded by Shade thirteen to shoot, Juju goes left, dumps
it down low. Marshall's free Strong falls, Strong's grabbing her

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knee too gets back up okay, but Marshall laid it
in That put them up for good at sixty nine
to sixty seven, and then it came a free throw show.
After Beckers scored the hoop to tie the game, Marshall
made a layup. Juju Watkins went one of two, so

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was a three point lead. Sarah Strong scored off an
inbound layup to get the lead back to one. Watkins
made two free throws, and then with five seconds to go,
with the game on the line, Sarah Strong was filed
by Juju Watkins with five seconds left. She made the first,
she missed the second. Two Page Becker's got the rebound,

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but falling back, threw it back towards mid court. Sarah
Strong threw up a prayer that at the side of
the backboard and usc emerges a winner. Seventy two seventy
over Yukon. That's Our Game Recap, which is sponsored by
the Landing Senior Living in North Haven,