How to watch UConn women’s basketball vs. Iowa State (12/17/24) online without cable | FREE LIVE STREAM for regular season games

The Iowa State Cyclones will face the No. 4 UConn Huskies in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 (12/17/24).

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Here’s what you need to know:

What: Women’s College Basketball

WHO: Iowa State vs. UConn

When: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 (12/17/24)

Where: Mohegan Sun Arena

Time: 8:30 p.m. ET

TV: FS1

Live stream: DirecTV Stream (free trial), fuboTV (free trial)

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Here’s a story about women’s college basketball from the Associated Press:

UConn has a challenging week ahead with games against two of the best players in the country.

The fourth-seeded Huskies face Audi Crooks and Iowa State in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase on Tuesday and No. 7 USC and phenomenal sophomore JuJu Watkins on Saturday.

“Every team presents a different problem. “Iowa State, everyone knows what their biggest strength is and they’re very good at playing to that strength,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said of Crooks. “How we prepare for them will probably have to be different than the way we prepare for the USC game. Two different players, two different teams, getting a lot of attention.”

Iowa State has had a difficult start to the season. The Cyclones started the preseason poll ranked eighth before being eliminated on Monday. They lost to Northern Iowa, South Carolina and rival Iowa.

Crooks, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, is averaging 21.6 points and 8.1 rebounds this season.

“She is young, this is her second year. It didn’t take long for her to adjust to college basketball,” Auriemma said. When you have what she has, it’s something that very few people in the country have, so she’s a difference maker.”

The Huskies want to make things difficult for the Crooks.

“It’s not one person guarding them, it’s all five people on the court,” Huskies star guard Paige Bueckers said. “Whoever comes off the bench is going to have a great game plan, I know we’re going to have a great scout. It’s not one person’s responsibility, it’s up to everyone to help out and make it harder for her and the guards to break in.”

Saturday’s game against USC is a rematch of last season’s Elite Eight game, which the Huskies won 80-73. The Trojans still have Watkins, who is third in the country in scoring at 24.7 points per game. Coach Lindsay Gottlieb has added pieces around her with transfers Kiki Iriafen (Stanford) and Talia von Oelhoffen (Oregon State).

The seventh-ranked Trojans’ only loss this season came at home to Notre Dame before Thanksgiving. The Irish handed the Huskies their only loss of the season so far last Thursday.

Ranked Bears

Cal entered the poll for the first time since 2019 and was ranked No. 24. The Bears are 12-1, with their only loss coming against No. 15 Michigan State. Cal beat rival Stanford by 20 points last Friday to finish thus a series of 12 defeats in the series. The win was the third-largest in series history and the most since a win in the 1981-82 season.

The Bears had a 17-13 record last season, their first winning season under coach Charmin Smith, who took over the program in 2019. They made it to the WNIT and lost in the second round.

“We talked about how the goal last year was the postseason, and I wish I had said the NCAA Tournament,” Smith said. “The team was determined to make the postseason. Now the goal is the NCAA tournament. Everyone is fixated on that.”

NET Reviews

In the NCAA’s weekly NET rankings – one of the tools the selection committee uses for the NCAA tournament series – South Carolina is still the first choice, with Texas and Kansas State in the top three. UCLA, No. 1 in the AP poll, is fifth. Vanderbilt, which is just outside the top 25, is ninth.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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