{"id":934471,"date":"2026-10-20T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934471\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:16:09","slug":"womens-basketball-falls-in-exhibition-game-against-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934471\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball falls in exhibition game against UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARTFORD, Conn.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Tied at halftime UConn pulled away from Texas women’s basketball in the second half and won 83-61 on Monday at PeoplesBank Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Madison Booker<\/a> connected on 11-of-17 from the field and scored 23 points to lead the Longhorns. Breya Cunningham<\/a> scored in double figures with 11 points and recorded six rebounds, four steals and two blocked shots. Freshman Addison Bjorn<\/a> scored eight points and added six rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cunningham and Booker put the Longhorns on the board with back-to-back buckets to give Texas an early 4-0 lead. UConn used a 7-0 run in the first quarter to go up 15-8, but Texas countered with six straight and four points in the run scored by Cunningham and pulling within one at 15-14. UConn scored the final bucket of the first quarter to go p 19-17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Longhorns came out in the second quarter scoring the first seven points of the period and took a 24-19 lead on a driving layup by Booker. Addison Bjorn<\/a> made back-to-back baskets for Texas including a 3-pointer to put Texas up 37-33. UConn scored the final four points to knot the game at 37-37 going into halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UConn made five more field goals than Texas in the third quarter and built an 11-point lead at 56-45 going into the fourth quarter. Booker scored eight of the Longhorns 16 points in the fourth quarter. UConn outscored Texas 27-16 in the final period.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Longhorns forced 17 turnovers and scored 21 points off those turnovers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Up next Texas will play their annual Orange-White scrimmage on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. CT and host UCLA in Cedar Park on Sunday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. CT.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARTFORD, Conn.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Tied at halftime UConn pulled away from Texas women’s basketball in the second half and won 83-61…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-934471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}