The No. 2 seed Huskies are back in the Final Four for the 24th time as Paige Bueckers scores 31 and and Sarah Strong puts up 22 points and 17 rebounds to lead the way. USC put up an impressive showing despite missing star JuJu Watkins to a season-ending injury, but the Trojans didn't have the firepower to keep up.

The Huskies (35-3), led by Paige Bueckers’ 31-point effort on Monday, defeated No. 1 seed USC 78-64 in the Spokane 4 Regional final to reach their record 24th Final Four. UConn will face UCLA (34-2), which prevailed 72-65 in the Spokane 1 Regional final against LSU (31-6). UConn and UCLA will face off at 9 p.m. EDT on April 4 at Amalie Arena.

Bueckers has scored a total of 50 points across those two games, including 28 when UConn defeated USC in the Elite Eight last year to advance to the Final Four. Bueckers has also recorded a total of 13 rebounds and eight assists and has shot 44.4 percent from the field and 35.7 percent from 3-point range against the Trojans.

USC women's basketball looks to avenge its loss in the NCAA tournament last year to UConn with a win over the Huskies in the Elite Eight on Monday at 6 p.m. PDT (TV: ESPN).

In the UConn women’s basketball team’s Elite Eight win over USC, the Huskies’ graduating seniors rose to the occasion on the biggest stage.

JuJu Watkins' absence and Ayoka Lee's presence made this No. 1-No. 5 matchup one of the biggest toss-ups of the third round.

UConn's Kaitlyn Chen drives toward the rack and drops in a slick and-1 in the second quarter.

Women's Final Four field is officially set after the Elite Eight came to a close on Monday. Texas and UConn punched their tickets with fairly comfortable wins to join No.

Paige Bueckers and the UConn women’s basketball team have done it again. The Huskies are heading back to the final four for the second year in a row. They beat the USC Trojans by 14 points.