{"id":212063,"date":"2025-12-30T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212063\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:55:10","slug":"no-1-uconn-to-close-2025-at-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212063\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 UConn to Close 2025 at Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"

STORRS, Conn. \u2013 The top-ranked UConn women’s basketball team (13-0, 4-0 BIG EAST) plays its final game of 2025 at Providence (8-6, 1-2) Wednesday at Amica Mutual Pavilion at 3 p.m. The game will air on peacock\/NBC Sports Network and the UConn Sports Network from Learfield (FOX Sports 97.9).<\/p>\n

UConn beat Butler, 94-47, last Sunday in Indianapolis. Sophomore Sarah Strong<\/a> led the Huskies with 15 points, six rebounds, seven assists and three steals. Graduate student Azzi Fudd<\/a> had 13 points and freshman Blanca Qui\u00f1onez scored 12. UConn had 48 points off 29 Bulldog turnovers and 44 bench points vs. Butler.<\/p>\n

For the fifth time this season, Blanca Qui\u00f1onez was selected as the BIG EAST Freshman of the Week. Qui\u00f1onez scored 12 points on 5-7 shooting in a 94-47 win at Butler on Sunday. She added three rebounds and three steals. This season, Qui\u00f1onez is averaging 10.5 points with a .584\/.577\/.833 shooting split.<\/p>\n

The Huskies lead the nation with 24.3 assists per game. UConn has dished out 20+ assists in its last 12 games. Junior KK Arnold<\/a> ranks second nationally with a 4.69 assist-turnover ratio.<\/p>\n

UConn is 50-21 all-time vs. Providence and has won the last 37 meetings between the teams. The teams last met on Feb. 9 in Providence, a 77-40 win for the Huskies. Graduate student Azzi Fudd<\/a> had 17 points and shot 5-for-6 from three in the game. The Friars will travel to Storrs on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n

Providence lost to No. 3 South Carolina, 96-55, last Sunday. This season, Sabou Gueye leads the Friars with 14.1 points per game. Head coach Erin Batth is in her third season at Providence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, Conn. \u2013 The top-ranked UConn women’s basketball team (13-0, 4-0 BIG EAST) plays its final game of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-212063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}