The BulleTin • Friday, april 1, 2022 B5
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TODAY
SATURDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
64°
Partly sunny, pleasant and
warmer
LOW
34°
58°
34°
Partly cloudy with a couple
of showers
Mostly sunny and pleasant
ALMANAC
TUESDAY
MONDAY
58°
42°
50°
26°
49°
36°
Cloudy
Clouds and sun with
showers around; cool
Windy with occasional rain
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
52°
54° 75° in 1923
27°
29° 14° in 1953
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.45" in 1936
Month to date (normal)
0.18" (0.70")
Year to date (normal)
1.08" (3.10")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.08"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Sat.
Sun
6:47am/7:32pm 6:45am/7:33pm
Moon
7:16am/8:17pm 7:37am/9:25pm
Mercury 6:51am/7:22pm 6:51am/7:29pm
Venus
5:01am/3:32pm 5:00am/3:33pm
Mars
4:57am/2:55pm 4:55am/2:55pm
Jupiter
6:08am/5:41pm 6:05am/5:39pm
Saturn
5:01am/3:07pm 4:57am/3:04pm
Uranus 8:02am/10:12pm 7:58am/10:08pm
First
Full
Last
New
Apr 8
Apr 16
Apr 23
Apr 30
Tonight's sky: New moon (11:25 p.m.)
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
3
5
5
3
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
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I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Clouds and sun today. A
touch of rain tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: More clouds than
sunshine today. A few fl urries tonight.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Mostly cloudy today.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Partly sunny today.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Intervals of
clouds and sun today. A few fl urries tonight.
Mostly sunny tomorrow.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Partly sunny and
chilly today. Mostly cloudy tonight.
SKI REPORT
EAST: Partial sunshine
today. A couple of
showers of rain or
snow in central parts
tonight.
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
72/44/0.00
Akron
66/59/0.19
Albany
60/39/0.81
Albuquerque
62/37/0.01
Anchorage
41/30/0.00
Atlanta
73/62/0.65
Atlantic City
66/46/0.31
Austin
74/41/0.00
Baltimore
75/48/0.24
Billings
52/35/Tr
Birmingham
62/54/1.61
Bismarck
48/17/0.00
Boise
53/33/0.00
Boston
65/40/0.04
Bridgeport, CT 58/37/0.03
Buffalo
70/50/0.09
Burlington, VT
57/37/0.02
Caribou, ME
38/29/0.02
Charleston, SC 77/69/0.25
Charlotte
73/65/1.09
Chattanooga
65/61/0.60
Cheyenne
61/25/0.00
Chicago
39/36/0.70
Cincinnati
52/48/0.13
Cleveland
65/61/0.04
Colorado Springs 63/24/0.00
Columbia, MO
38/37/0.17
Columbia, SC
77/69/0.30
Columbus, GA
76/61/1.60
Columbus, OH
61/58/0.03
Concord, NH
49/33/0.23
Corpus Christi
79/55/0.00
Dallas
70/43/Tr
Dayton
55/47/0.09
Denver
62/26/0.00
Des Moines
34/31/0.29
Detroit
63/52/0.20
Duluth
33/25/Tr
El Paso
74/46/0.00
Fairbanks
30/5/0.00
Fargo
34/22/0.00
Flagstaff
53/30/0.00
Grand Rapids
41/37/0.66
Green Bay
35/31/0.67
Greensboro
71/59/0.44
Harrisburg
78/41/0.91
Hartford, CT
63/37/0.05
Helena
50/35/0.00
Honolulu
83/70/0.07
Houston
78/47/0.00
Huntsville
59/50/1.21
Indianapolis
42/40/0.10
Jackson, MS
68/50/Tr
Jacksonville
81/69/0.15
Today
Hi/Lo/W
83/50/pc
42/28/c
48/29/c
66/40/s
42/31/pc
67/44/s
55/38/pc
82/56/s
59/35/pc
53/32/c
65/42/pc
56/26/c
58/38/s
60/36/pc
55/35/pc
41/28/sf
48/29/c
45/27/c
77/50/pc
68/39/s
64/39/s
49/29/c
47/34/pc
49/31/pc
42/29/c
56/31/c
57/43/s
72/43/s
71/43/s
45/29/pc
54/30/c
82/66/pc
76/53/s
45/29/pc
58/32/c
53/38/s
44/28/pc
45/32/s
80/50/s
24/8/s
51/30/pc
61/31/s
41/26/c
43/32/c
63/35/s
54/35/pc
55/33/pc
55/32/c
82/72/s
79/57/s
62/39/s
47/32/pc
68/43/pc
79/53/c
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
41/32/pc
70/56/sh
73/63/c
91/59/s
94/74/c
57/33/c
78/67/pc
46/31/c
67/49/sh
55/36/sh
67/58/s
81/59/s
89/71/pc
50/29/pc
88/75/pc
48/37/pc
47/29/sh
40/32/r
78/60/pc
71/57/r
70/57/pc
81/61/pc
79/60/s
73/63/pc
61/46/pc
48/31/sh
50/29/pc
96/81/pc
Saturday
Hi/Lo/W
78/54/s
51/37/c
52/33/s
74/47/s
42/30/pc
71/48/pc
52/45/s
84/52/pc
58/43/pc
59/35/sh
70/46/pc
54/32/pc
60/33/s
53/38/s
53/39/s
46/35/pc
47/32/pc
39/26/c
73/51/pc
66/45/pc
66/42/pc
62/35/pc
44/34/r
55/39/c
50/38/s
67/42/s
61/38/r
71/47/pc
75/47/pc
56/37/c
51/28/pc
86/65/pc
77/52/s
54/37/c
70/38/pc
55/36/pc
50/35/c
43/28/pc
83/51/s
27/9/pc
47/25/s
62/31/s
45/33/r
44/30/sn
62/43/pc
58/41/s
54/34/s
51/32/pc
83/70/pc
82/59/t
65/43/pc
51/35/r
75/44/c
77/54/t
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
42/34/0.19
40/33/Tr
53/43/0.17
78/59/0.00
59/52/0.04
50/30/Tr
60/39/0.00
63/55/0.00
49/47/0.28
34/30/0.72
59/44/0.09
85/77/0.00
38/34/0.61
35/31/Tr
56/48/0.93
72/58/1.00
66/42/0.02
71/42/0.05
73/58/0.69
57/32/0.00
43/30/0.04
90/70/Tr
82/59/0.00
40/34/0.55
71/48/0.02
83/60/0.00
71/60/0.04
47/38/0.14
63/38/0.06
73/67/0.76
58/16/0.00
63/39/0.00
73/55/0.16
69/44/0.07
72/46/0.00
43/39/0.23
53/44/0.01
80/47/0.00
62/57/0.00
63/48/0.00
70/45/0.00
57/21/0.00
79/69/0.43
54/41/0.01
43/25/Tr
52/28/0.00
39/36/0.01
86/73/0.03
80/50/0.00
48/35/0.00
75/51/0.30
50/30/0.06
59/31/0.00
84/57/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
41/35/r
60/45/s
42/26/c
80/61/s
50/32/pc
62/35/pc
65/45/s
71/54/pc
54/36/pc
46/31/c
62/44/s
87/74/t
43/32/c
48/35/pc
58/37/s
73/59/pc
57/37/pc
58/36/pc
65/43/s
69/45/c
59/38/s
82/69/t
87/61/s
50/36/pc
59/37/pc
85/61/pc
43/28/sn
54/31/sh
59/35/pc
67/39/s
48/26/sn
69/40/s
64/36/s
40/28/sf
77/47/s
56/42/pc
59/42/s
85/61/s
66/58/pc
64/49/s
71/47/s
62/31/s
77/48/pc
53/42/c
47/31/c
53/38/pc
62/45/s
82/72/t
83/55/s
68/47/s
59/38/pc
65/39/pc
61/35/pc
85/55/s
Saturday
Hi/Lo/W
42/34/sn
63/41/s
48/33/r
84/64/s
58/38/pc
61/40/s
70/45/pc
69/55/pc
59/40/pc
43/30/r
65/45/pc
88/72/t
41/34/c
50/30/pc
61/42/pc
73/60/t
56/42/s
57/41/s
55/47/pc
68/45/s
59/37/s
81/67/t
87/61/s
51/34/r
58/42/s
85/61/s
53/38/pc
48/31/s
53/35/s
66/45/pc
58/33/pc
69/38/s
61/47/pc
48/33/pc
79/48/s
60/39/r
70/40/pc
87/59/pc
66/58/pc
68/48/pc
73/48/pc
69/38/s
74/52/pc
56/41/c
56/32/s
54/32/c
63/38/pc
83/70/t
85/56/s
70/44/s
59/46/pc
68/43/s
61/32/pc
83/54/s
93/69/0.00
85/56/0.00
48/32/0.29
34/17/0.20
81/60/0.05
84/73/0.00
100/75/0.00
59/57/0.21
39/25/0.06
55/30/0.40
46/39/0.14
86/76/0.00
62/57/0.22
82/48/0.00
70/66/0.14
47/35/0.23
59/46/0.00
57/54/0.03
84/80/0.04
39/16/0.01
71/67/0.25
75/68/0.04
76/52/0.00
65/58/1.06
64/34/0.05
50/45/0.02
50/45/1.01
45/32/0.12
99/67/s
84/56/pc
43/28/c
40/31/sn
78/59/t
84/73/s
100/70/pc
54/38/pc
42/21/pc
38/25/sn
40/32/c
79/74/r
60/45/sh
84/49/s
68/63/r
42/32/sf
57/34/s
56/43/c
90/78/t
37/19/pc
67/60/sh
64/57/c
80/62/pc
54/40/r
39/27/sf
51/43/r
45/34/sh
39/31/c
102/71/s
84/58/c
44/31/pc
39/27/c
79/60/r
84/72/s
102/72/pc
59/44/c
47/25/pc
46/29/pc
45/32/pc
81/74/r
54/38/r
80/47/s
68/63/c
46/33/s
56/32/c
61/43/pc
88/77/t
42/27/pc
68/59/sh
62/57/sh
78/64/c
53/46/c
46/33/pc
53/43/r
41/32/c
43/26/c
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 94°
at Zapata, TX
National low: 5°
at Angel Fire, NM
Precipitation: 2.09"
at Bainbridge, GA
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
5
56-56
Hoodoo Ski Area
1
47-47
Mt. Ashland
0
31-42
Mt. Bachelor
0
28-80
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
89-126
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
0
34-62
Timberline Lodge
0
120-120
Willamette Pass
0
48-48
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
1
57-88
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
58-98
Palisades Tahoe, CA
0
0-90
Park City Mountain, UT
0
41-69
Sun Valley, ID
0
40-62
Mostly sunny
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today Saturday
Yesterday
Today Saturday
Yesterday
Today Saturday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
54/31/0.03 49/42/c 52/40/pc
La Grande
48/34/0.00 58/39/pc 53/31/pc
Portland
57/43/Tr
60/44/pc 60/40/c
Baker City
49/26/0.00 58/32/pc 55/23/pc
La Pine
52/26/0.00 62/32/pc 58/32/s
Prineville
48/25/0.00 66/36/pc 58/34/s
Brookings
57/45/0.00 56/43/pc 59/44/pc
Medford
62/38/0.00 69/40/pc 68/39/c
Redmond
53/23/0.00 63/32/pc 60/29/s
Burns
52/21/0.00 59/30/pc 57/22/s
Newport
50/37/0.05 51/41/c 52/40/pc
Roseburg
58/38/0.00 64/43/pc 65/39/pc
Eugene
57/35/0.00 61/43/pc 62/39/pc
North Bend
53/38/0.00 54/43/c 55/41/c
Salem
58/38/0.00 60/41/pc 62/37/pc
Klamath Falls
55/18/0.00 63/27/s 61/23/pc
Ontario
59/37/0.00 62/37/pc 63/30/s
Sisters
48/34/0.00 64/35/pc 59/32/s
Lakeview
54/29/0.00 63/27/s 60/26/pc
Pendleton
56/38/0.00 61/42/pc 60/35/pc
The Dalles
63/45/0.00 66/45/pc 64/38/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
Sunny, pleasant and
warmer
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
65/45
Rufus
Hermiston
62/44
65/45
66/47
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
65/45
57/39 60/44
56/34
Wasco
56/36 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Pleasant
Tillamook
54/34
63/44
61/42
Sandy
66/45
McMinnville
52/41
today with times
Joseph
Heppner
La Grande
57/43
Maupin
Government
58/40
of clouds and sun,
58/39
54/35
Camp
65/43 Condon 61/41
Union
Lincoln City
except sunnier in the
59/39
50/36
57/38
Salem
51/43
Spray
south.
Granite
Warm Springs
60/41
Madras
64/39
Albany
53/32
Newport
Baker City
65/38
66/38
Mitchell
51/41
60/41
58/32
WEST: Cloudy this
Camp Sherman
63/39
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
morning, then clouds Yachats
63/37
63/32
60/40
Day
Prineville
51/42
58/32
and sun this after-
Ontario
Sisters
66/36
Paulina
59/34
62/37
noon; partly sunny and Florence
Eugene 64/35
Brothers 61/33
Bend
Vale
pleasant in the south. 53/42
61/43
61/32
Sunriver 64/34
62/39
Nyssa
62/33
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
62/38
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
62/32
60/31
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
62/33
62/40
62/44
Fort Rock
55/43
Riley 59/30
YESTERDAY
Crescent
65/31
58/30
High: 63°
62/31
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at The Dalles
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
53/44
64/43
63/29
56/34
Low: 18°
Marsh
Lake
60/33
Port Orford
59/24
65/29
at Klamath Falls
Grants
Burns
Junction
Paisley
54/44
Pass
61/37
Chiloquin
65/30
70/40
Rome
Medford
61/26
Gold Beach
69/40
62/36
54/44
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
62/36
66/39
63/27
58/32
56/43
63/27
Seaside
49/42
Cannon Beach
48/42
75°
40°
64°
36°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Astoria
49/42
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
SUNDAY
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
41/34/1.84
63/55/0.00
71/63/0.00
90/66/0.00
97/80/0.09
60/31/0.00
70/51/0.00
45/31/0.00
64/51/0.05
54/48/1.04
66/50/0.00
81/60/0.00
84/61/0.00
46/34/0.23
86/79/0.00
45/36/0.04
46/28/0.02
52/46/0.28
75/58/0.04
85/73/0.00
62/50/0.02
70/43/0.00
78/56/0.00
74/64/0.00
59/54/0.09
45/34/0.01
55/41/0.02
95/81/0.00
45/28/pc
70/53/sh
75/62/pc
92/62/pc
83/69/c
64/35/s
78/63/c
45/25/c
67/50/sh
45/34/sh
71/62/s
80/60/s
93/67/pc
46/26/sh
88/72/pc
47/31/sh
47/29/sh
41/31/sh
78/62/t
64/60/r
66/53/s
81/61/c
79/60/t
73/64/s
62/47/pc
48/30/sh
52/28/s
94/79/s
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT | FINAL 4 PREVIEW
Overlooked Louisville seeks 1st title, as SC awaits in semis
BY DAVE CAMPBELL
associated press
MINNEAPOLIS — This is
Louisville’s fourth trip to the
national semifinals in 15 sea-
sons under coach Jeff Walz,
a feat that has ensured every
four-year player in the pro-
gram under his direction has
had the opportunity to experi-
ence the Final Four.
Yet the Cardinals are the
team in this year’s quartet of
powerhouses that has gener-
ally been the most overlooked,
a reminder of the oligarchy
still lingering in a sport seeing
more parity every season.
No college coach, of course,
would ever pass up an opening
to play the underdog role. Walz
recounted hearing on a talk
show this week that the Con-
necticut-Stanford winner was
bound to face South Carolina
in the NCAA championship
Sunday night, causing him to
jokingly wonder if the host
mistakenly figured the semifi-
nals only featured three teams.
“We actually have four, and
we’re the fourth,” Walz said.
Final Four
Continued from B3
Auriemma’s Huskies came
away with the 87-60 victory
and went on to win their first
national championship. They
have won a record 10 more
since then. Stanford returned
to the Final Four 10 more
times before winning the
team’s third national champi-
onship last year.
No one on either team has
played against the other in col-
lege. The two programs played
at least once every year from
2007-2014 and then again
in 2017. They haven’t played
since.
“Always had great games
with them. Some have been
close and some have not
been close,” Auriemma said.
“I think like us they haven’t
changed much over the years.
They play the same style of
play. When you watch them
you know what you’re going to
get. … It’s the same Stanford
Louisville, one of three No.
1 seeds in the 68-team field to
make it to Minneapolis, plays
No. 1 overall seed South Caro-
lina in the first game at Target
Center on Friday night.
“At least let’s roll the balls
out and let’s see what happens,”
Walz said. “They might end
up being true, but I’d give us a
fighting shot at it.”
The Cardinals (29-4) will
present plenty of challenges for
the Gamecocks (33-2), starting
with guard Hailey Van Lith, as
intense a player as there is in
this tournament, and forward
Emily Engstler, a disruptive
force on defense who can put
the ball in the basket, too.
“If they want to sleep, let
them sleep. We’ll come in and
do us, and we’re going to do
us to the best of our ability,”
said Van Lith, who has hit the
20-point mark in all four tour-
nament games.
South Carolina has also
been to four Final Fours in 14
years under coach Dawn Sta-
ley, but the Gamecocks won
the 2017 title. That’s one rea-
team I remember 27 years ago
playing them out here. It’s just
different people.”
Stanford’s Haley Jones re-
members growing up and
watching the Cardinal play
UConn. She said she is glad to
be part of the matchup.
“I think the UConn-Stan-
ford king of bi-coastal rivalry
is a longstanding tradition,”
she said. “I think each pro-
gram you have Hall of Fame
coaches, the two winningest
coaches of all-time. All these
All-Americans, Olympians,
WNBA players come from
both these programs. So to be
a part of it is huge.”
Stanford is two victories
away from repeating as NCAA
champion.
The NCAA hasn’t had a re-
peat champion since UConn
won four straight from 2013-
16.
The Huskies haven’t
reached the title game since
2016, losing in heartbreaking
fashion a few times since then.
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Louisville’s Hailey Van Lith practices Thursday ahead of the Women’s
Final Four in Minneapolis.
son for the prominence gap,
however slight, between the
two programs.
“I hear people say, ‘What are
you going to do to get over the
hump?’ What hump is there
to get over, besides winning
a national championship?”
Walz said Thursday. “I know it
would be wonderful, but we’re
not going to define the past 15
years on one game.”
Homecoming
UConn sophomore star
Paige Bueckers grew up 10
miles from Minneapolis and
will have many friends and
family at the game on Friday
night. She isn’t worried about
it being a distraction.
“I’m obviously super grate-
ful to be home, but it doesn’t
matter the location, where it
is, we’re all excited to be at the
Final Four and keep playing,”
she said. “I’m hoping to see a
lot of Minnesota basketball
fans because it’s an awesome
experience and opportunity
for the state.”
Recovering Husky
Dorka Juhasz had surgery
on her left wrist Wednesday,
two days after she had frac-
tured it in the Huskies’ dou-
ble-OT win over N.C. State in
the regional final.
“She’s in that state where
everything is fine, everything
is happy and making nothing
but happy talk,” Auriemma
Walz is one of 11 coaches
all-time to reach four or more
Final Fours.
“I’m pretty damn proud
of what we’ve done here, and
we’re going to continue it,”
Walz said.
Painful memory
The Gamecocks were the
No. 1 team in the AP Top 25
poll from start to finish, with
said. “But once it wears off this
afternoon, it’s going to be a
different Dorka.”
Auriemma said they are
hoping to have Juhasz in Min-
neapolis for the game Friday.
He also said she’ll return for
another season next year in-
stead of potentially turning
pro.
“I always expected she was
coming back. One big reason
she came to UConn is to expe-
rience something like this,” he
said. “It was taken away from
her. I think she’s coming to
hopefully be in the same situ-
ation, but actually playing in-
stead of watching.”
She said it
“I call it hot dogs for the
girls and steak for the boys. It
will be a great time when you
don’t need Title IX, but unfor-
tunately in our world, there’s
discrimination still against
people, women and we need
to keep battling,” VanDerveer
said.
AP Player of the Year Aliyah
Boston leading the way, but
they’re carrying ample moti-
vation of their own after the
way they lost last year to even-
tual champion Stanford in the
semifinals.
Trailing by one point in
the waning seconds, Boston
turned a midcourt steal into a
pass to Brea Beal, whose shot
bounced off the rim. Boston
grabbed the rebound, but her
putback at the buzzer was also
off the mark.
“Good, bad, or indifferent,
it’s a part of who we are, like it
was supposed to happen,” Sta-
ley said. “But we’re not really
motivated by that. We’re moti-
vated by what we’ve been able
to do this year and the habits
that we’ve been able to cre-
ate and perform night in and
night out, and we just hope
that our habits are much stron-
ger than our opponents on any
given day.”
Much like Stanford and
UConn, the best programs
stay that way by emphasiz-
ing the quality of the process
rather than obsessing over the
result.
“Whoever it is that’s stand-
ing, the last team that’s stand-
ing on Sunday night, it’s divine
order. I truly believe that. So if
it’s not us, it’s not us. We’ll get
another shot at it when it’s our
turn,” Staley said.
Shipping up to Boston
Boston, the 6-foot-5 for-
ward, poses the same type of
daunting matchup that Walz
and his Cardinals team nine
years ago faced against Bay-
lor and star Brittney Griner in
their upset of the prohibitive
favorite in the Sweet 16. Louis-
ville was runner-up to UConn
in 2013.
“We know we’re going to
have to make sure we’re fo-
cused on her and know where
she is at all times, but she’s also
got pretty good teammates
she’s playing with,” Walz said.
“So we’ll have a plan for to-
morrow night, and then if plan
A doesn’t work, we’ll go to plan
B, and then plan C if needed,
and there is no plan D.”
UConn’s
Paige
Bueckers
shoots
during a
practice
session
Thursday
ahead of
the Wom-
en’s Final
Four in
Minneap-
olis. The
Huskies
face the
Cardinal
in the
second
national
semifinal
Friday
night.
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