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Jet, April 17, 2000
The Lady Vols just couldn't stop the Huskies from claiming its second national championship.
Connecticut overwhelmed Tennessee 71-52 to win the recent NCAA women's basketball championship at the First Union Center in Philadelphia. It was the second time in three meetings this season the top-ranked Huskies (36-1) beat the No. 2 Lady Vols (33-4).
"It's just really special," said UConn coach Geno Auriemma, who also guided the team to its 1995 title, when UConn beat Tennessee 70-64 in Minneapolis to finish 35-0.
UConn asserted itself early in the game, pushing the ball up the floor quickly and frustrating Tennessee with its traps and double teams on the defensive end. Shea Ralph, named the Final Four MVP, led the Huskies with 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting.
Tennessee was in the Final Four for the 12th time and was seeking its seventh national championship. In the semifinals, they had defeated Rutgers' Scarlet Knights, whose coach, C. Vivian Stringer, recently made NCAA history as the first coach--male or female--to take three different schools to the Final Four.
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