A questionable last minute timeout by Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey might have cost the team a chance to snap the UConn women's team's Division I record 79-game winning streak.
No. 1 Connecticut had the ball with a one point lead, eight seconds left on the clock and two seconds left on the shot clock. Connecticut had to inbound after No. 2 Baylor star Brittney Griner blocked a shot out of bounds. Instead of wait to get possession back with a one- or three-point deficit, Mulkey opted to call the team's final timeout before UConn inbounded.
UConn missed the shot and Baylor responded with a frantic final possession that ended with an awkward last-gasp shot from very long range that may have not even beat the buzzer. Suffice it to say, it wasn’t enough and the Connecticut women’s team extended their record winning streak to 80 games, defeating again the team they dispatched in the Final Four last season.
The UConn Blog: Win No. 80 Toughest Of Them All
The UConn women have now won 80-games in a row but perhaps no game during that streak was tougher than the one they played tonight, a 65-64 win over Baylor. The UConn Blog watched the Huskies play a bad game but win thanks to the clutch play of their best player, Maya Moore.
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