{"id":214001,"date":"2026-01-01T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/214001\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:20:10","slug":"no-1-huskies-beat-providence-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/214001\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Huskies Beat Providence on New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/azzi-fudd\/14968\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14968\" target=\"_blank\">Azzi Fudd<\/a> had 18 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/sarah-strong\/14971\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14971\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Strong<\/a> scored 17 and\u00a0<a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1<\/a>\u00a0UConn extended its winning streak to 30 games with a 90-53 victory over Providence on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>UConn (14-0, 5-0 Big East) hasn&#8217;t dropped a game since an 80-76 loss to Tennessee on Feb. 6, 2024. The Huskies have won 52 straight against Big East opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Blanca Quinonez scored seven straight points to highlight Connecticut&#8217;s 21-0 run that made it 30-7 at the end of the first quarter. She finished with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Friars (8-7, 1-3) made two of their first three shots before missing 11 of their next 12 to end the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Providence managed the same number of made field goals (three) in the second quarter as it did in the first and ended up shooting 26% for the opening half.<\/p>\n<p>Fudd and Strong watched the final quarter from the bench. Finishing with 24 assists as a team, the Huskies have now dished out 20-plus assists in 13 straight games.<\/p>\n<p>Sabou Gueye led the Friars with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Providence committed 30 turnovers, but also turned UConn over 21 times.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut has won the last 38 meetings against Providence and improved to 51-21 all-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 Azzi Fudd had 18 points, Sarah Strong scored 17 and\u00a0No. 1\u00a0UConn extended its winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-214001","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\/214001","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=214001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}