The 47-game winning streak for UConn has come to an end on Monday night.
Once again coming into the women’s college basketball season, the UConn Huskies are the favorite to win the national championship once again. They can certainly still do that, but they found out early this season that they’re far from invincible, as they were taken down on the road by the No. 6 Stanford Cardinal, 88-86, snapping their 47-game winning streak.
Stanford needed an extra five minutes to get this one done, with the game going to overtime, but they got the job done at home in Naples Pavilion against Geno Auriemma and company.
With time running out in regulation and the Cardinal down by three, senior Amber Orrange, who finished the game with 17 points, five rebounds and four assists, knocked down a three-pointer with three seconds on the clock to send the game into overtime.
Once in the overtime period, it was the Cardinal that took over, outscoring the Huskies 11-9. The key for Stanford in the extra period was making their free throws, which they did with relative ease thanks to Bonnie Samuelson and Lili Thompson.
Thompson was the leading scorer overall for Stanford in the huge win, dropping in 24 points and adding in four rebounds with one assist.
For the Huskies, who now need to start a new winning streak, they were led by Breanna Stewart, who finished with a double-double, with 23 points and 10 rebounds.
But the story in the end here is that the 47-game streak of UConn has come to an end and it has come to an end early here in 2014-15.
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