UConn star Azzi Fudd returns as Huskies win Big East tourney opener

Star UConn sophomore Azzi Fudd made her return from a knee damage Saturday, offering a much-needed enhance for the battered Huskies as they started the Big East match in opposition to Georgetown.

Fudd has missed 22 video games this season, together with the earlier 14 coming into Saturday, resulting from proper knee accidents. Her absence got here on high of UConn dropping stars Paige Bueckers and Ice Brady to season-ending accidents, limiting Huskies coach Geno Auriemma’s roster to simply 10 gamers, together with Fudd. 

The return of Fudd and ahead Dorka Juhász from accidents Saturday means Auriemma has all 10 gamers energetic for simply the second time this season and the primary time since November, in response to CT Insider.

Fudd performed 17 minutes in Saturday’s 69-39 victory over Georgetown, scoring 10 factors and handing out 4 assists.

The Huskies skilled what by Auriemma’s requirements is a down 12 months thanks largely to their damage struggles. Even Auriemma missed video games in December and January resulting from well being points. Still, UConn went 26-5 within the common season and entered the Big East match because the No. 1 seed.

UConn was ranked ninth general by the most recent AP ballot and can seemingly enter the 2023 NCAA girls’s basketball match and not using a top-5 general seed, the primary time that has occurred to the Huskies since not less than 2007.

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