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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3824558, member: 5798"] Women's Basketball 1/26/2021 7:54:13 PM [B][URL='https://www.bigeast.com/documents/2021/1/26//BEwbb1_26_21.pdf?id=11939']WBB Notes - 1.26[/URL] The Week Ahead[/B] Six games are on the calendar this week, with three of them set to air to national television audiences. Highlighting the lineup is [B]Sunday’s showdown between No. 3/4 UConn and No. 17/20 DePaul. [/B]The ranked squads will tipoff at 1 p.m. ET on FOX, marking the first women’s basketball game to air on the network. [B]National Recognitions For Huskies: [/B]Tuesday was a two-for day for third-ranked UConn as [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][B]Paige Bueckers was named National Freshman of the Week by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)[/B][/COLOR] while junior [B]Olivia Nelson-Ododa was named to the Naismith Women’s Defensive Player of the Year watch list.[/B] For more on both honors: [URL='http://sportswriters.net/usbwa/news/2021/women210126.html']USBWA[/URL] | [URL='http://naismithtrophy.com/naismith-womens-defensive-player-of-the-year-2021-watch-list/']Naismith[/URL] [B]Up In The Polls: [/B]UConn and DePaul both gained ground in the [I]USA Today[/I] Coaches’ Poll on Tuesday, with each rising one spot – the Huskies going to No. 4 and the Blue Demons to No. 20. DePaul also improved in Monday’s AP Poll, jumping one for the third straight week to a season-best No. 17. UConn remained No. 3 in the AP Poll for a second straight week. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bigeast.com/news/2021/1/26/womens-basketball-bigeastwbb-minute-big-time-tv-matchups-on-the-schedule-this-week.aspx[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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