South Carolina, UConn won’t play in women’s basketball in 2025-26, per report
We will not have a revenge match of the national championship in women’s university basketball this year to come.
At least not in the regular season, anyway.
According to a report by CT Insider, the Uconn Huskies and the Southern Caroline Gamecocks will not be played in the 2025-2026 season, which ends the longest rivalry without a continuous conference in Uconn.
The Huskies of Geno Auriemma and the Gamecocks of Dawn Staley faced each regular season – and a handful of times in the playoffs – since the 2014-15 campaign. Uconn has a 9-5 file against South Carolina in this section. The Gamecocks had won four games in a row in the series before the Huskies beat them in Columbia in February, then during the national championship match in Tampa, Florida.
In 13 of these 14 meetings, at least one from Uconn or South Carolina was classified n ° 1 in the AP survey. The clashes have often attracted crowds and a large national television public.
Uconn and South Carolina played twice before the start of the series, the Huskies winning consecutive matches in 2007 and 2008.
Although they do not play against each other, the Huskies and the Gamecocks assemble the timetables strewn with high -level matches. Uconn will open the season in Germany at Ramstein air base against Louisville, and they will also face Tennessee, Iowa and Utah. The South Carolina will face Duke, Texas and UCLA in the Women’s Championship of the era of inaugural players in Las Vegas. Gamecocks and Huskies will go to Los Angeles to play against the USC, and the USF will also host the two programs in Tampa.
In the ACC-SEC challenge, South Carolina will go to Louisville to face the cardinals of Jeff Walz.
Staley and Auriemma both refer incredibly talented lists with aspirations to win the national championship. Southern Carolina added the top scorer in the country Ta’niya Latson and the Double-Double All-Sec machine, Madina Okot, via the transfer portal to associate with the sniper Tessa Johnson, the striker Joyce Edwards and the veterans of Raven Johnson and Chloe Kitts. Meanwhile, the Huskies brought back stars to Azzi Fudd and Sarah Strong, and strengthened their depth via the transfer portal by adding Kayleigh Heckel of the USC and Serah Williams of Wisconsin.
Although Uconn and South Carolina do not meet in the regular season, there is a good chance that fans will see the two teams in the Final Four in Phoenix.
