LOS ANGELES -- Azzi Fudd scored 17 points and No. 1 UConn routed 16th-ranked Southern California 79-51 on Saturday, snapping the Trojans' 20-game home winning streak with their best player on the bench watching.

That run ended in a blowout, of course. With the national semifinal loss against – yep – UConn, who beat the Bruins 85-51, including holding them to a nine-point second quarter to match the Trojans’ nine-point first quarter Saturday.

The defending champion and No. 1-ranked UConn Huskies women's basketball team faces one of its toughest tests of the 2025-26 regular season on December 13, when

USC held a brief 9-8 advantage midway through the first quarter, but UConn went on an impressive 15-0 run to take over the game—and they never looked back. The lead ballooned to as much as 39 points, as USC was unable to even score in double figures in the first and second quarters.

UConn completed the non-league portion of its schedule late Friday with a 71-63 victory over Texas that pushed the Huskies to 10-1 and kept them at No. 5 in Saturday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings, where Michigan remains No. 1 for the fourth straight day.

Though it’s always a marquee matchup when UConn women’s basketball faces USC, the regular-season series likely ends with Saturday’s game.

The USC women’s basketball team dropped a hard 79-51 loss to No. 1 Connecticut on Saturday afternoon, but one local star got a shoutout from a coaching legend. Ahead of Saturday’s game, UConn coach Geno Auriemma gave a shoutout to USC freshman Jazzy Davidson,

LOS ANGELES -- On all facets of this game, the No.16 USC Trojans Women's basketball squad was simply outplayed by the best team in the country, the Connecticut Huskies, and as a result, the Women of Troy suffered their worst loss of the season thus far, 79-51.