Basketball: Women's

There’s no doubt that Uconn is one of the top teams in the country and the No. 1 seed Huskies are giving the No. 4 seed Lady Lions all they can handle in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Kingston Regional.

The Huskies are up 43-29 at recess and have built that lead due in part to excellent shooting in the first half. Thanks to 50 percent shooting from the field, the Huskies have been able to build the lead back up to 14, after being up only five with just under eight minutes to play.

The Lions have distributed the wealth around and have seen productive numbers from six players. Junior forward Mia Nickson leads the team with nine points and sophomore guard Maggie Lucas has seven tallies to lead the way for the Lions.

Two Huskies have scored in double figures already as guards Bria Hartley and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis have 11 and 10 points respectively.

A saving grace for the Lions so far is definitely the foul situation as the Lions enjoy a plus-four margin in fouls, only committing six, while the Huskies have committed 10. That has enabled the Lions an advantage at the free throw line, where they have knocked down 7-of-9 from the charity stripe. Four Huskies have two fouls, including three starters and Mosqueda-Lewis, who leads the team in scoring at 15 PPG.

The Lions are losing the rebounding battle 22-16 and are going to need to shoot better than 10-of-31 if they want to come back and advance to the Elite 8. They are going to also need to see production out of junior center Nikki Greene, who has yet to score in the game because she only played six minutes, thanks to her two fouls she picked up in the first frame.