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    Saturday, May 04, 2024

    UConn women host Temple on Saturday in Storrs

    Storrs — No. 5 UConn plays the second of three consecutive home games on Saturday when the Huskies host Temple in American Athletic Conference women's basketball game at Gampel Pavilion (1 p.m., SNY).

    The game is UConn's annual Play4KayPink game. The Huskies will honor breast cancer survivors and will be holding an auction on www.uconnhuskies.com/PinkAuction to raise money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

    UConn (20-2, 9-0) is coming off a 118-55 rout of East Carolina on Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford and will finish its homestand on Monday night against No. 12 South Carolina, also in Hartford, in its final non-conference game of the season at 7 p.m.

    In Wednesday's win over East Carolina, senior Katie Lou Samuelson snapped out of a brief shooting slump by scoring a game-high 31 points while fellow senior Napheesa Collier went 10-for-10 from the floor for 21 points, and junior point guard Crystal Dangerfield had 12 assists, just one shy of the team's single-game record.

    Samuelson (18.9 points, 7.0 rebounds) and Collier (18.9, 9.7) continue to lead the Huskies in scoring and rebounding.

    UConn, which is never lost in 110 AAC games (including postseason), already owns an 88-67 win over the Owls (8-14, 4-5) on Jan. 19 in Philadelphia. They are 12-2 all-time against Temple, which arrives at Gampel on a four-game winning streak after defeating Houston 76-65 on Wednesday. Mia Davis leads the Owls with 19.4 points and 9.0 rebounds per game.

    • In other news, UConn announced it has schedule two future games against Maryland of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Huskies will host the Terrapins, currently ranked No. 10 in the nation, during the 2020-21 season and visit Maryland in the 2021-22 season. Maryland made its eighth straight NCAA tournament appearance in 2018.

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