Recording a much-needed signature win a month before the NCAA Tournament, the UConn Huskies (+250) are the new national championship favorite in women’s college basketball after their convincing road win at South Carolina. UConn snapping South Carolina’s 71-game home winning streak headlined a week of major shake-ups in women’s college hoops. Six of the top … Read more
This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. You can sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday morning here. 🏀 Good morning to all, but especially to … THE UCONN HUSKIES Two-time reigning champion UConn‘s season was hanging in the … Read more
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer HARTFORD, Conn. — In the days following UConn’s calamitous and catastrophic loss to Seton Hall on Saturday, some familiar faces wandered into the team’s practice facility. One belonged to Donovan Clingan, the 7-foot-2, 280-pound Goliath who anchored head coach Dan Hurley’s schematic designs on both ends of … Read more
If any team was going to turn Sunday afternoon’s highly anticipated showdown between No. 7 UConn and No. 4 South Carolina into a blowout, the money would have been on the defending national champion Gamecocks, who entered with a 71-game winning streak at home. Instead, the Huskies jumped out to an early lead and cruised … Read more
The SEC was at the center of the college basketball universe Saturday, which began when the NCAA revealed its top 16 seeds. Auburn, Alabama, and Florida were on the No. 1 seed line, and six of the top 10 teams on the seed list came from the SEC. While Selection Sunday is just over four … Read more
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer STORRS, Conn. — The first trickles of sloshed and saddened UConn fans descended from the upper level of Gampel Pavilion with 3:11 remaining in a game that was supposed to reanimate the two-time defending national champions but instead devolved into the passing of a conference torch from one … Read more
STORRS, Conn. — The last thing St. John’s did as a team early Friday night, just before taking the ride over to Gampel Pavilion, was pull up one more video. But not of UConn. Nor any other basketball team. It wasn’t a video of any team, in fact. It was the 400-meter men’s final from … Read more
Chris LowFeb 7, 2025, 12:17 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It was once a rivalry — UConn vs. Tennessee — that defined women’s basketball, and on Thursday night, the No. 19 Lady Vols and Kim Caldwell rekindled some of that past … Read more
Michael VoepelFeb 5, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. UConn is accustomed to keeping up its level of play during conference season regardless of how … Read more
Why USC’s win over UConn is so significant: ‘This is what basketball excellence was’ HARTFORD, Conn. — As USC’s bench emptied onto the XL Center floor, with the No. 7 Trojans having defeated the No. 4 UConn Huskies 72-70, JuJu Watkins’ hands shot to the sky. Basking in her 25-point performance that lifted USC past … Read more