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Baylor remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll for a seventh straight week as a showdown against third-ranked Connecticut loomed Monday night.

Through most of this season, it was never clear who the Huskies could count on to lead the way. But Tuesday, with a very animated Geno Auriemma spearheading the effort, UConn jelled to win the Big East tourney title.

Baylor remained No. 1 in the ESPN/USA Today top 25 women's basketball coaches' poll, and UConn went to No. 2.

For 40 minutes on Sunday, UConn was the team it had been accused of being. And even Maya Moore couldn't change that.

UConn has the two best players in the country in Tina Charles and Maya Moore. But the Huskies are the best team in the country because the rest of the supporting cast plays so well together.

Tina Charles -- not teammate Maya Moore -- should be the national player of the year. And as her double-double led UConn past Notre Dame on Saturday, it was easy to see Charles is one of the best players the Huskies have ever had.

Connecticut picked up right where it left off last season: unanimous No. 1 in the women's basketball poll.

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Figuring out Geno Auriemma is as tough as trying to beat his Huskies. But the enigmatic coach has once again gotten UConn to rise to the occasion at the most important time of the year and on the brink of an eighth NCAA title.

Breanna Stewart scored 29 points to help UConn beat Notre Dame 83-65 on Sunday night to advance to the NCAA championship game.

A quick look at what happened in the first half between UConn and Notre Dame.

After losing to Notre Dame three times this season -- and in the past two Final Fours -- UConn finally found a way to beat the Irish and Skylar Diggins to return to the NCAA championship game.

Notre Dame usually had its way with Connecticut this season, but that was before freshman Breanna Stewart found her game.

Like many great players before her, Skylar Diggins joins a long list of women's basketball's best who didn't win an NCAA title -- but did some great things just the same.

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