Unlike their encounter last season in Storrs, when the Louisville Cardinals fell behind the Huskies 19 zed, Jeff Walz’s team was up to the task last night in front of a huge, raucous crowd at the Yum!. The battle was knotted 21 all after the 1st, during which U of L ace Asia Durr had clanked her four FG attempts, netting none.

Crystal Dangerfield’s trey hoisted the rarely denied Huskies into a single digit advantage early in the 2d.

At which juncture, it must be assumed Ms. Durr decided “enough is enough.”

Fourteen seconds later, smothered by two taller defenders beyond the arc at the left FT line extended, Durr somehow launched a bomb that bullseyed. 26-24.

A half minute later to the nanosecond, she drained another three. 29-24.

A minute later, it was again string music Louisville, Kentucky. 32-24.

The interlude was redolent of Tonight’s the Night for the Cardinals.

And so it came to pass. Increasing its margin in the 2d, then the 3d and in the 4th, the University of Louisville and Jeff Walz are no longer ofer UConn.

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