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UCF Women's Basketball Heads To The AAC Championship

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The University of Central Florida women’s basketball team faces top-seed Connecticut Monday for the American Athletic Conference championship. This is the Knights’ first-ever championship game.

The Knights celebrated a historic win Sunday as they beat Cincinnati 66 to 58 to advance to the championship game

It was the Knights’ 26th straight victory.

Meanwhile the Connecticut Huskies will face their sixth straight title game.

The Knights will take on the Huskies at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Arena.

After a brief stint as Morning Edition Producer at The Public’s Radio in Rhode Island, Talia Blake returned to Central Florida Public Media. She is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with degrees in both Broadcast Journalism and Psychology. While at UCF, she was an intern for Central Florida’s public affairs show, Intersection. She joined on as Morning Edition Host in 2019. In 2022, Ms. Blake was appointed to the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalist’s board of directors.