{"id":218451,"date":"2026-03-24T18:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218451\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:41:13","slug":"top-seeded-uconn-sent-off-to-fort-worth-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218451\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-seeded UConn sent off to Fort Worth in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; The UConn women\u2019s basketball team is headed to Texas for its Sweet 16 matchup with the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UConn held team sendoff event Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. on the Storrs campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Huskies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2026\/03\/23\/uconn-womens-basketball-face-syracuse-ncaa-tournament-second-round\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2026\/03\/23\/uconn-womens-basketball-face-syracuse-ncaa-tournament-second-round\/\">demolished 9th-seeded Syracuse<\/a> 98-45 on Monday night at Gampel Pavilion in the NCAA tournament\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was the last game at Gampel for seniors Azzi Fudd and Caroline Ducharme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They, along with the rest of the team, head to Fort Worth, TX to take on 4th-seeded UNC Tarheels in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Sweet 16 appearance marks 32nd straight for the Huskies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The game tips off at 5 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fans can watch it on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Should UConn advance, they may have a rematch with Notre Dame. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2026\/01\/19\/uconn-faces-old-foe-notre-dame-tonight\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2026\/01\/19\/uconn-faces-old-foe-notre-dame-tonight\/\">The Huskies buried the Fighting Irish<\/a> earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sixth-seeded Notre Dame plays 2nd-seeded Vanderbilt right before the UConn game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That game tips off at 2:30 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The winner of UConn\/UNC plays the winner of Notre Dame\/Vanderbilt in the Elite 8 on Sunday at 1 p.m. on ABC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; The UConn women\u2019s basketball team is headed to Texas for its Sweet 16 matchup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21893,34725,38114,20583,38113,116,118,117,38116,3124,85200,85209,85202,85205,85198,85208,85201,85203,85204,20577,85199,38112,85207,85206],"class_list":["post-218451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-news","tag-connecticut-sports","tag-ct-news","tag-ct-sports","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-storrs","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-basketball-sendoff","tag-uconn-news","tag-uconn-north-carolina","tag-uconn-north-carolina-tv","tag-uconn-sendoff","tag-uconn-sports","tag-uconn-syracuse","tag-uconn-unc","tag-uconn-unc-tv","tag-uconn-womens-basketball","tag-uconn-womens-basketball-sendoff","tag-university-of-connecticut","tag-when-does-uconn-leave-for-forth-worth","tag-when-does-uconn-leave-for-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}