Kentucky Women Look to Match Men in Final Four While the women's basketball world focuses on the impending Baylor-Tennessee game, or on Stanford and Connecticut cruising along, there is another team who is quietly, but steadily advancing: No. 2 seeded Kentucky. The Wildcats (28-6) will play the top-seeded Huskies in the final eight on Tuesday in Kingston, R.I. It's Kentucky's second trip over the past three seasons to the final eight, and reaching the 28-win mark ties the school record. UConn (32-4) and Kentucky have not played in women's hoops since 1999, something Huskies Coach Geno Auriemma sees as adding to the game's intrigue. "I like the fact that they don't know as much about us as some of those teams did last year," Auriemma told the Middletown (Conn.) Press. I don't know as much about them as I would like to know. I like the fact that they don't know as much about us probably more than I like that we know little about them. When we get caught up on what we need to know, then I'll like it a lot, because I would like to think we are not always the team to play against, even though you have a week to get ready. One player that Auriemma will know a little about is Kentucky sophomore power forward Samarie Walker, as she transferred from UConn to Kentucky during her freshman year. She struggled with the decision, but made the change and found happiness at Kentucky. She sat out a year, and began playing for the Wildcats last December. "UConn just didn't work out, and it kind of put a damper on me and made me feel like I didn't have a passion (for basketball), but I still do," Walker told the Lexington Herald Leader. Kentucky downed Gonzaga, 79-62, in the round of 16. Senior guard Keyla Snowden powered Kentucky, scoring 15 of her 17 points on 3-pointers, while Walker had 16 points and 12 rebounds. "Keyla has been playing with a sense of purpose that you like to see a senior playing with," Kentucky Coach Matthew Mitchell told the Associated Press. She's a really talented shooter, but she has been competing at both ends of the floor like a person on a mission who wants to get to the Final Four. Senior point guard Amber Smith was also a force, sacrificing her body against the Zags. She dove to grab a ball heading out of bounds in the first half, landing in a group of photographers sitting on the baseline. In the second half, Smith sacrificed her body again, going into the tabled press area while chasing a ball. The first dive produced some bruises. The second dive opened up a cut over her left eye. "It gave us a boost," Smith, who had three points and three assists, told Louisville Courier-Journal. "The excellence of the Kentucky men's program has really helped us tremendously, just with the brand name "Kentucky" being associated with excellence in college basketball. John (Calipari) is tremendously supportive and is always trying to encourage us. It's a lot of fun this time of year with both of us still alive.