UConn Rolls Into Final

Big East Player of the Year Maya Moore scored 17 points Monday to lead top-ranked Connecticut (32-0) past Villanova 72-42 in the conference semifinals.

Tina Charles added 16 points and Renee Montgomery had 12, helping Geno Auriemma to an easy win over Harry Perretta in a battle of the conferences co-coaches of the year.

Tia Grant led Villanova (19-13) with 13. Laura Kurz, who had 21 points in the Wildcats' quarterfinal win against Notre Dame, was held scoreless, missing all seven of her shots.

NO. 5 LOUISVILLE 69,

NO. 14 PITTSBURGH 63

Angel McCoughtry scored 31 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to help No. 5 Louisville hold off 14th-ranked Pittsburgh in the semifinals of the Big East Tournament.

Louisville (29-3) will face Connecticut in the tournament championship.

It's only the third meeting between the top two seeds in the Big East Tournament in the past 11 years. The No. 2 seeds won both the previous meetings.

NO. 17 S. DAKOTA ST. 68,

IUPUI 53

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Jill Young scored 17 points and Jennifer Warkenthien added 16 to lead No. 17 South Dakota State (30-2) past IUPUI (16-15) in a semifinal game of the Summit League Tournament.

Gonzaga Men Earn Berth

LAS VEGAS - Josh Heytvelt scored 17 points, Micah Downs added 12 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 12 Gonzaga romped into its 11th consecutive NCAA tournament with an 83-58 victory against Saint Mary's and struggling star Patty Mills on Monday night in the West Coast Conference final.

Matt Bouldin scored 14 points for the relentless Zags (26-5), who followed up their perfect regular-season conference slate with two blowout wins in the tournament, giving them 19 victories in their past 20 games.

Saint Mary's (25-6) never threatened the Zags in a loss that endangers the Gaels' hopes for the first back-to-back NCAA Tournament bids in school history.

ALL-ACC: North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough became the first player in league history to be unanimously selected four times to the all-conference team.

Tar Heels teammate Ty Lawson joined him on the first team, along with Florida State guard Toney Douglas, Duke swingman Gerald Henderson and Miami guard Jack McClinton in voting by 76 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Douglas was a near unanimous selection - he received 226 voting points of a possible 228. He is scoring 20.8 points per game, second in the ACC, is the league's leading scorer in conference games, and he helped Florida State claim the No. 4 seed and an opening-round bye in the league tournament.