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Women's Basketball

UConn Clinches Sixth-Straight Outright Regular-Season Title

WICHITA, KAN. (AP) - In the second game of a road trip in Middle America and playing without the head coach, UConn associate head coach Chris Dailey really had one goal in mind for the Huskies —avoid lethargy.

That was not a problem as No. 2 UConn coasted past Wichita State 84-47 on Tuesday night behind Napheesa Collier's 32 points and 12 rebounds.

UConn (26-2, 14-0 American) clinched an outright American Athletic Conference championship and moved to 100-0 in regular-season American games since joining the conference. Katie Samuelson scored 18 points for the Huskies, making five 3-pointers. Crystal Dangerfield had 14 points and eight assists for UConn.

Freshman Carla Bremaud scored 15 points for Wichita State (11-16, 4-10), just three shy of her season high. Bremaud was 6 of 10 from the floor while the rest of the Shockers were 13 of 44.

Collier was 13 of 15 from the floor. She moved into eighth on the school's career scoring list, moving past Kara Wolters and Diana Taurasi. The senior forward has 2,169 points now. She's 10 points out of moving into fifth all-time at UConn.

The Huskies ended the first quarter on a 23-0 run to lead 27-5. The Shockers, with five freshmen among their top eight players, went more than nine minutes without scoring in a stretch that extended into the second period.

Other than a school kids day, Wichita State had yet to reach 2,000 fans at a home game. The Shockers had only played in front of more than 2,000 fans on the road once.

But UConn helped draw 6,156 in on a Tuesday night.