The Lady Huskies will not have the opportunity to cut down the twine for the third straight year and UConn will not have a chance at claiming titles in both the Men's and Women's basketball tournaments.
UConn was downed by Notre Dame, 72-63.
Stanford, likewise, was upset by Texas A&M, 63-62.
The Women's Championship game will pit the #3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish against the #2 Texas A&M Aggies on Tuesday, April 5th.
Notre Dame 72, UConn 63
Shot for shot, play for play, Skylar Diggins matched Maya Moore when it mattered most and Notre Dame will now play for a national championship behind their fearless young leader.
The sensational sophomore guard scored 28 points and hot-shooting Notre Dame upset UConn 72-63 on Sunday night, ending the brilliant career of Moore and the Huskies' quest for a third straight national championship.
"I thought Skylar was just amazing, simply amazing today," Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said.
And she was.
Ten years after their last title, the Irish will be playing for another one Tuesday night against Texas A&M, which beat Stanford 63-62 in the first semifinal. The Aggies scored with 3 seconds left in a back-and-forth game to set up the improbable championship without a top seed for only the second time ever and the first since 1994.
Connecticut and Stanford had each been to the Final Four the last four seasons and were expected to meet for the title on Tuesday night in a rematch of last year's title game.
While UConn won that meeting, the Cardinal ended UConn's record 90-game winning streak on Dec. 30. Everyone thought the rematch would come here in Indianapolis on basketball's biggest stage.
Texas A&M 63, Stanford 62
Texas A&M's defense was good enough to upset two No. 1 seeds. The Aggies will find out Tuesday night if it is good enough to win their first national championship.
Sydney Colson drove the length of the floor and found a cutting Tyra White for a layup with 3.3 seconds left to give the Aggies a thrilling 63-62 victory Sunday over Stanford, which goes home from its fourth straight Final Four without a championship. The teams traded leads five times in the final minute, capping A&M's remarkable rally from a 10-point deficit in the final six minutes.
And they're not finished yet."It's time to make history," Colson said.
The Aggies (32-5) already have done that by punching a ticket to their first title game. Beat home-state favorite Notre Dame, a 72-63 upset winner over Connecticut, on Tuesday night and the Aggies (32-5) will have far more to celebrate in a year the program produced its first All-American, Danielle Adams, and broke through on the national stage by beating Baylor last week after three losses to the top-seeded Bears this season.
"Give credit," coach Gary Blair said after winning his first semifinal game in two tries. "Defense will win for you."
And Sunday's comeback will not be soon forgotten.












