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Azzi Fudd racks up 26 points successful triumph implicit Northeastern (1:43)
UConn's Azzi Fudd scores 26 points and leads the Huskies to a 98-39 triumph implicit Northeastern. (1:43)
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Alexa PhilippouESPN
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Shortly aft dropping 40 points to pb the Golden State Warriors to a 106-101 win implicit the Cleveland Cavaliers connected Friday, four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry paid tribute to a chap sharpshooter and person successful the assemblage ranks: UConn Huskies women's hoops prima Azzi Fudd.
Curry -- an ardent enactment of women's sports -- wore Fudd's bluish UConn jersey to his postgame quality league pursuing the win. Friday was besides Fudd's 20th birthday, and 1 time aft she scored 26 points successful the Huskies' season-opening win implicit Northeastern.
Steph is rocking a UConn Azzi Fudd jersey, inactive supporting women's sports arsenic always. Went to Stanford women's hoops Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/iyQP4YrNib
— Janie McCauley (@JanieMcCAP) November 12, 2022"Wanted to outcry her out," Curry said Friday of Fudd, a sophomore defender with the Huskies. "Basketball is hoops and continuing to bash our portion to radiance a airy and observe those women who are doing astonishing things connected the court."
Earlier successful the week, Curry sat courtside astatine Stanford's Maples Pavilion to ticker household person Cameron Brink play arsenic the Cardinal trounced CSU Northridge 104-40.
The Curry-Fudd transportation goes backmost years. She was invited to Curry's SC30 Select Camp astatine 15. She stood out, adjacent among older boys, for her shooting prowess.
"She tin beryllium going afloat velocity and halt connected a dime and have, like, a feathery release," Curry told ESPN earlier her committedness to UConn. "I deliberation she has much of a textbook jumper than anyone I've seen. Maybe Klay Thompson and Azzi Fudd. ... You spell Ray Allen, Klay Thompson and Azzi Fudd, textbook. You would thatch idiosyncratic however to sprout with their form."
With assemblage athletes present capable to nett disconnected their name, representation and likeness, Fudd signed a deal successful December with Curry's enactment -- marking its archetypal jock signing -- that involves a mentorship constituent from Curry himself.
Earlier this week, Curry gave Fudd different shoutout online aft she sank 9 3-pointers successful UConn's accumulation game, tweeting "Splash! 9 of em ���� "
Fudd's adjacent crippled is Monday arsenic No. 6 UConn takes connected No. 3 Texas successful Storrs, Connecticut.
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