May 25, 2012
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    By Max J. Dickstein

    NCAA Women's Preview: UConn on brink of a sixth title

    Photo credit: Game Face

    Maya Moore leads UConn with 19.4 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. (Source: Getty Images)

    By Max J. Dickstein

    It’s the first all-Big East women’s NCAA championship game.

    It’s the first time in more than 20 years that two male coaches — Louisville’s Jeff Walz and Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma — will meet in an NCAA women’s final.

    But tonight’s final (8:30 p.m. on ESPN) has another feature that is relatively common in the women’s game: a dominant team 40 minutes from undefeated coronation.Auriemma, who won his sixth coach of the year award on Sunday, helmed two of the four previous unbeaten NCAA champions. Unless third-seeded Louisville has something to say about it, he’ll run away with a sixth title.

    Led by super sophomore Maya Moore, the player of the year, top-seeded Connecticut is the highest-scoring and most offensively efficient team in the country, averaging 84.2 points with a 1.44 assist-to-turnover ratio.

    The Huskies have also shellacked Louisville twice this season by an average of 33.5 points.

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