{"id":29,"date":"2014-04-08T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T02:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-04-08T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T02:34:52","slug":"uconn-dominates-notre-dame-for-second-straight-womens-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/2014\/04\/08\/uconn-dominates-notre-dame-for-second-straight-womens-title\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn dominates Notre Dame for second straight Women&#8217;s title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30\" alt=\"Geno Auriemma\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn.jpg 654w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn-594x418.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of Connecticut dismantled Notre Dame on Tuesday night claiming their second straight NCAA Women&#8217;s Basketball Championship. The UConn women&#8217;s win came one night after the men defeated Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s game between the Huskies and Fighting Irish marked the first time in the NCAA Women&#8217;s \u00a0Tournament that two undefeated teams faced one another.<\/p>\n<p>The UConn women held a 45-38 lead at halftime but pulled away in the second half and posted a 79-58 win. For Notre Dame it&#8217;s another tough loss to the Huskies who handed them their last loss a year ago in the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the ninth NCAA Women&#8217;s Championship for UConn all of which have come under Geno Auriemma. The first of which came in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut dismantled Notre Dame on Tuesday night claiming their second straight NCAA Women&#8217;s Basketball Championship. The UConn women&#8217;s win came one night after the men defeated Kentucky. Tuesday&#8217;s game between the Huskies and Fighting Irish marked the first time in the NCAA Women&#8217;s \u00a0Tournament that two undefeated teams faced one another. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,2],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-29","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaaw-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-ncaaw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}