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! UConn schools the Lady Vols
By Chuck Schoffner
j The Associated Press
' PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Con
' necticut had too much talent, too
| much depth and too many quick
hands. And now the Huskies have
something else as well: a second
national championship.
With an impressive display of
ball-hawking defense and effi
cient, balanced offense — the
foundation of UConn’s play all
season — the Huskies over
whelmed Tennessee 71-52 Sun
day night to win the women’s
NCAA title.
The top-ranked Huskies (36-1)
beat No. .2 Ten
nessee for the
second time in
three meetings
this season and
did it in a way
that left the
Lady Vols (33-4)
dazed and look
ing helpless.
“I thought if we could play 40
minutes of really solid basketball,
we’d be all right,” UConn coach
Geno Auriemma said. ‘‘We did.
Our defense was just spectacular
tonight.”
Tennessee was in the Final Four
for the 12th time and was seeking
its seventh national champi
onship. But the Lady Vols could
offer little more than token oppo
sition to the UConn machine,
which completed an impressive
run through the NCAA tourna
ment.
No one in the tournament came
closer than 15 points to the
Huskies, whose only loss was a
72-71 setback to Tennessee on
Feb. 2.
“Our guards were not strong
enough to handle the pressure de
fense they applied,” Tennessee
coach Pat Summitt said. “Offen
sively, they just schooled us ...
even some of our veteran players.”
Shea Ralph led the Huskies
with 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting,
and also had seven assists, six
steals and one block. She was
named the most valuable player in
the Final Four.
Svetlana Abrosimova had 14
points and Asjha Jones 12 for Con
necticut. The Huskies also got a
big Jift from Kelly Schumacher
who had six points and had a Fi
nal Four-record nine blocks.
“Kelly Schumacher has really
come up big the last part of the
season,” Auriemma said. “She
knew she had to be a physical
presence in the lane and that’s
where we won it, in the lane. ”
Connecticut kept sending fresh
waves of substitutes into the
game, and that eventually wore
out Tennessee.
Tennessee had been averaging
80 points a game. It took the Lady
Vols, who had four of their first
five shots blocked, almost 13 min
utes to even get 10 points in this
one.
National player of the year
Tamika Catchings drew the brunt
of Connecticut’s defense as first
Swin Cash, then Jones and Ralph
took turns guarding her. Catchings
got only one shot in the first 11
minutes — and it was blocked.
She finished with 16 points to
lead the Lady Vols.
It was 25-10 when Catchings
gave Tennessee a brief spark. She
got inside for a layup, then hit a 3
pointer to cut the lead to 25-15.
Ralph answered by converting a
three-point play on a shot she
made while falling to the floor,
and the Huskies led 32-19 at half
time.
When it was over, Auriemma
joined his players as they piled on
top of each other at center court in
celebration. They hoisted him and
carried him briefly across the
floor.
In the first title game matching
the top two ranked teams since
1989, Connecticut asserted itself
early by pushing the ball up the
floor quickly and frustrating Ten
nessee with its traps and double
teams on the defensive end.
The Huskies built a 15-point
lead a little more than 12 minutes
into the game, and Tennessee nev
er found a way to get back in it.
The championship came five
years to the day after Connecticut
won its first title.
■ And for Auriemma, the brash,
smooth-talking coach, the cham
pionship was all the more
(( Offensively, they
just schooled us...
even some of our
veteran players.
Pat Summitt
Tennessee coach
thrilling because it came in his
backyard. Auriemma moved to
this country with his family from
Italy when he was 7 years old and
grew up in the Philadelphia sub
urb of Norristown.
“It’s just really special,” he said.
“It really is.”
Auriemma also guided Con
necticut to its other title in 1995,
when the Huskies beat Tennessee
70-64 in Minneapolis to finish 35
0.
It’s the third straight year and
the eighth time overall that the
team finishing No. 1 in the rank- *
ings has won the championship.
The top-ranked team has never
lost in the title game.
Tennessee played without start
ing guard Kristen Clement, an
emotional leader and one of the
team’s most experienced players.
Clement sprained her right ankle
during practice Sunday morning,
and despite undergoing a full day
of treatment, she wasn’t able to go.
Her absence deprived one of the
players that Summitt had planned
to rotate on Connecticut point
guard Sue Bird to slow the
Huskies’ dynamic offense. Kyra
Elzy, a strong defender, started in
Clement’s place and scored eight
points.
Kara Lawson, the star of Ten
nessee’s semifinal victory over
Rutgers, was held to six points on
3-for-13 shooting.
Varied teams share
similar aspiration
By Jim O’Connell
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Michi
gan State and Florida both started
the season in the Top 10 and never
dropped far below. Now they’re
the only teams left.
Similarities over.
While the Spartans are most ef
fective in a half
court game,
where they can
crash the boards
and be physical,
the Gators prefer
to play at warp
speed, using a
10-man rotation
and full-court pressure.
Michigan State (31-7) was the
only No. 1 seed to reach the Final
Four and has lived up to the role
in its bid for the national champi
onship. The Spartans won every
game in the NCAA tournament by
at least 11 points, including Sat
urday night’s 53-41 victory over
Wisconsin.
Florida, seeded fifth, got a first
round scare from Butler before
wearing down higher-seeded
teams — Illinois, top-ranked
Duke and Oklahoma State—with
its hectic pace. The Gators (29-7)
used the same style to end North
Carolina’s surprising run with a
71-59 win Saturday night.
“We like to run, too,” Michigan
State coach Tom Izzo said. “I
think these guys want to run, too. ”
The Spartans can get up and
down the court, having scored
more than 80 points nine times
this season. In the tournament,
however, they have averaged 68.2
with the five starters averaging be
tween 27 and 35 minutes a game
and only two reserves averaging
more than 10.
The 10 Gators who create all
that havoc on the floor average be
tween 13 and 31 minutes a game.
Michigan State starts three sen
iors, while Florida has one on the
team and plays seven sophomores
and freshmen in the rotation.
“Our youthfulness has won us
a lot of basketball games this
year,” said Kenyan Weaks, Flori
da’s lone member of the Class of
2000. “I don’t know if that’s going
to be a big problem in this game. ”
The Spartans were going to use
an age-old method to prepare for
Florida’s full-court press Monday
night.
“We always go against six or
seven guys in practice and I’m
sure we’ll have a bunch of players
out there today,” Michigan State
forward Andre Hutson said Sun
day.