Bueckers finished 16-of-27 from the field and 6-of-8 from 3, setting a UConn NCAA Tournament record for points.

Paige Bueckers scored a career-high 40 points, rescuing UConn from its first-half doldrums and single-handedly turning a tight game against Oklahoma into an 82-59 rout that sent the Huskies to the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA Tournament.

"I felt not so great in the first half, felt a lot better in the second half," Bueckers, who recorded 11 first-half points, said postgame. "We knew shots would fall. We thought we did well defensively besides a couple mental mistakes that we made as a team,