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The UConn women's basketball team is quite good. By my unofficial count, they haven't lost a game since Calvin Coolidge was president. But they still miss basketball shots on occasion.Or at least they used to.Katie Lou Samuelson rewrote the record books Monday night, hitting all ten of her three-point attempts en route to 40 points in UConn's 100-44 victory over the University of South Florida in the championship game of the AAC tournament. Those ten makes without a miss set a new record in women's college basketball and tied former George Mason shooting guard Andre Smith for the most in NCAA history.
The sharp-shooting Samuelson is UConn's leading scorer this season, though she had struggled from beyond the arc recently, shooting 29.7 percent on threes over her last eight games. Those struggles evaporated almost immediately on Monday, as she scored 29 points in a dominating first half for the Huskies. She became the third player in team history to crack the 40-point mark, joining Nykesha Sales (46 points in 1997) and Maya Moore (40 in 2009, 41 in 2010).Oh, and Samuelson didn't even play in the fourth quarter. She was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, because duh.