This was all UConn's fault.
It was all on Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, Sarah Strong and the rest of the Huskies, last seen celebrating giddily after smooshing 1-seed South Carolina 82-59 in the women's national championship game. It was UConn's, I don't know, 59th national title or something (actually 12th), but the first for Bueckers -- one of the greatest women's collegians in history, and almost certainly the best player never to have won the Big Trophy.
Well, no more.
She scored 17 points with six rebounds, three assists, a steal and two blocks in Blowout City Part Deux, then shared a long, tearful I-finally-did-it-coach hug with Geno Auriemma. She got to do that because, for once, she hardly needed to be Paige Bueckers; Strong (24 points, 15 boards, five assists, two steals and three blocks) and Fudd (24, five, one and three) were more than enough for the Huskies, who won their two Final Four games by an astonishing 57 points, or 28.5 per game.
Bled the drama white, in other words. Turned the women's big show into a "Remembrance Of Things Past" snoozer. Were just too damn good, and ruined everything.
This was all UConn's fault.
But wasn't it glorious?
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