Azzi Fudd scored 17 points and No. 1 UConn routed 16th-ranked USC on Saturday night, 79-51.

UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma offered strong praise of one freshman before UConn plays USC on December 13.

That run ended in a blowout, of course. With the national semifinal loss against – yep – UConn, who beat the Bruins 85-51, including holding them to a nine-point second quarter to match the Trojans’ nine-point first quarter Saturday.

For the last two seasons, the UConn women’s basketball team’s game against USC has been one of the most highly-anticipated matchups on the calendar. When the teams began their home-and-home series in Hartford in Dec.

UConn completed the non-league portion of its schedule late Friday with a 71-63 victory over Texas that pushed the Huskies to 10-1 and kept them at No. 5 in Saturday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings, where Michigan remains No. 1 for the fourth straight day.

LOS ANGELES -- On all facets of this game, the No.16 USC Trojans Women's basketball squad was simply outplayed by the best team in the country, the Connecticut Huskies, and as a result, the Women of Troy suffered their worst loss of the season thus far, 79-51.

Ahead of Saturday’s game, UConn coach Geno Auriemma gave a shoutout to USC freshman Jazzy Davidson, who played her high school years playing in Oregon.