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🏆 The Most NCAA Titles in Basketball History!
UConn Women's Basketball wins 12th Title, more than any NCAA program in history
Black Rosie
April 08, 2025
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UCONN FINISHES THE STORY
The 2025 Women’s College Basketball season is over, and Connecticut is back on top of the mountain.
UCONN got their first championship by preventing South Carolina from going back-to-back with a resounding 82-59 win on Sunday afternoon. This was Connecticut’s first championship since 2016, and they remain the last team in women’s college basketball to go back-to-back.
Our very own Erica L. Ayala broke it all down for CBS Sports following the game!
The Final Four is the perfect sendoff for superstar guard Paige Bueckers. While she didn’t dominate in the ways that she did leading up to the Final Four, the future number-one pick was still solid as her 17/6/3/1/2 kept things humming along.
Bueckers closes her college career surpassing fellow UCONN icon Maya Moore for the most NCAA Tournament points in school history. Most importantly, she walks away with the championship that has eluded her for all these years. Next stop, the WNBA Draft!
Sarah Strong had the freshman run of a lifetime as she set records and established herself as the next great Connecticut superstar. There were so many unforgettable moments on Sunday, but this sequence astounded me as I watched the game.
We’ve got something special on our hands.
The Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player deserves a special mention as well. It took a long time for Fudd to get to this moment as a series of ACL injuries kept her out of action, but she’s made the most of this moment and put together another dominant game against SC.
Fudd will be returning to school next season and it’s going to be exciting to see how she does in a new role alongside Strong and the next generation of Huskies.
For Dawn Staley and South Carolina, an almost dream season ended in a disappointing fashion. Even with this defeat, the Gamecocks will be back in championship contention. In postgame interviews with local media, coach Staley mentioned that she and the staff will be looking for experienced players in the transfer portal who can contribute immediately to complement their young roster.
Ashlyn Watkins's return from an ACL tear should also help the dynamic duo of Joyce Edwards and MiLaysia Fulwiley as they try to make it back to this stage. Additionally, Staley wasted no time securing the nation’s leading scorer, Ta’Niya Latson, from the transfer portal.
As coach Staley said, “They beat our ass, but they didn’t make us like it.” It’ll be fascinating to see how they respond next season.
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📰 WHAT WE’RE READING!
At Black Rosie Media, we love to give flowers to other writers and creators in women’s basketball.
Here’s what we’re reading
How Paige Bueckers and UConn got their fairytale ending with national title by Alexa Philippou for ESPN
30 years later, Jennifer Rizzotti looks back at UConn’s historic 1995 title run that launched a dynasty by Zachary Draves for Swish Appeal
Women's March Madness 2025: What South Carolina can learn from blowout loss to UConn in national championship by Robby Kalland for CBS Sports
Dawn Staley’s impact is reflected in coaches past and present by Owen Pence for The Contrarian
How Connecticut beat South Carolina in 2025 NCAA title game, met the standard by Howard Megdal for The Next
ELENA DELLE DONNE RETIRES
Elena Delle Donne. Image via the WNBA Twitter account.
On April 5th, Elena Delle Donne announced her retirement from the WNBA.
Delle Donne has been dealing with various injuries in the past few years, and they contributed in part to her not playing in 2024. As she closes this chapter, she will begin a new one as a special advisor with Monumental Basketball.
Over the course of her ten year career, Delle Donne won the MVP award twice, won a gold medal, and a WNBA championship with the Washington Mystics. She was one of the game’s very best players and helped usher in a new era in the WNBA when she was drafted in 2013.
It’s been a heck of a ride and Delle Donne leaves the game in a better position than when she began her career.
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đź’° MONEY MOVES
FAMILY PLANNING AND THE CBA
Cheyenne Parker-Tyus. Image via the Las Vegas Aces Twitter account.
This winter, Cheyenne Parker-Tyus signed a training camp contract with the Las Vegas Aces. Parker-Tyus is expected to provide A’ja Wilson some much needed scoring help in the frontcourt and make life a little easier for the M’VP.
Parker-Tyus’ debut with the Aces will be delayed for a bit. Her absence is related to an issue that might play a big part in the upcoming CBA negotiations.
On April 4th, Parker-Tyus shared that she is currently pregnant in a story with Callie Fin of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In the story, Parker-Tyus discussed when she found out she was pregnant. She praised the Aces front office for going “above and beyond” to support her, connect her to doctors in the Las Vegas area, etc. She mentioned that she was afraid to reveal her pregnancy to her Chinese team and the Aces, and spoke more about the environment women’s athletes find themselves in:
“It’s just unfortunate that there’s such a stigma behind it in women’s sports. It’s like we’re not allowed to start families. There was a time in the previous (collective bargaining agreement) where players didn’t even get their full salary in this situation.
There were things that just weren’t fair for mothers. That’s why it’s a scary conversation for me, because my livelihood is by playing basketball for a living. As far as benefits, my 401(k), all those things stop if a team chooses not to sign a player because of (pregnancy).”
We’ve talked here at the WBB Roundup about how transformational this CBA can potentially be. Players have made gains in the 5+ years since the last CBA contract, but there’s still plenty of room to get better.
During those negotiations, Sue Bird revealed that the league would not have provided increased pay and maternity leave without prioritization accompanying it. In recent years, players such as Dearica Hamby and Skylar Diggins-Smith reported mistreatment by their teams during their respective pregnancies.
For the upcoming negotiations, players will look for stronger maternal policies that provide more significant assistance and support to the players, among other things. If the players can do so, they will be setting a standard that other basketball leagues worldwide will hopefully follow and look to implement as well.
The WNBA has made many gains in the past five and a half years, but it still has plenty of room to improve.
💰 MONEY MOVES… an addendum
A brief follow up
In the last edition of the WBB Roundup, we discussed the NCAA’s decision to reduce the number of regional sites to two Super Regional sites. The move was criticized by coaches across college basketball, including Geno Auriemma.
Following their win against UCLA in the Final Four, Auriemma returned back to this topic. Tyler DeLuca of No Cap Space was on hand and shared a video of Geno’s comments.
And that's that!
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