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No. 1 UConn Travels to Butler for Road Finale
2/26/2021 3:24:00 PM | Women's Basketball
STORRS, Conn. – The top-ranked UConn women's basketball team (19-1, 16-0 BIG EAST) competes in its final road game of the season at Butler (2-16, 2-14) Saturday at 4:30 p.m. The game will air on SNY and The River 105.9.
Freshman Nika Mühl scored a career-high 19 points and added five steals as UConn beat Creighton, 81-49, Thursday. Junior Christyn Williams notched 16 points while freshman Paige Bueckers had 13 points and nine assists. Junior Olivia Nelson-Ododa had her fifth double- double of the season with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
UConn won its 27th overall conference regular season championship – 20th as a member of the BIG EAST – with the win over Creighton. The Huskies will be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming BIG EAST Tournament.
This is UConn's third straight road game at a school the Huskies have never visited before. UConn traveled to Xavier and Creighton for the first time in program history over the last week.
This is just the second all-time meeting between the Huskies and Bulldogs. The programs' first meeting came on Jan. 19, a 103-35 UConn win. Junior Olivia Nelson-Ododa led the Huskies with 18 points while sophomore Aubrey Griffin had a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds.
Butler is coming off a 73-61 win over Xavier on Monday. This season, Okako Adika leads the Bulldogs with 13.4 points per game. Head coach Kurt Godlevske is in his seventh season at Butler.
STREAMING
UConn's SNY games will be available to stream in-market (CT, NY, NJ, PA) to authenticated subscribers via the NBC Sports app: http://stream.nbcsports.com/rsn/sny.
Out-of-market fans will be able to stream UConn's SNY games at no additional cost to authenticated subscribers who have FOX as part of their television package. Users will need to sign in with their TV provider credentials at https://www.foxsports.com/ or in the FOX Sports app. The games can also be accessed at www.fox.com/sports or in the FOX Now app.
RADIO
UConn's game will be available on The River 105.9 or through TuneIn.
