The UConn women’s basketball team suffered a heartbreaking exit from the 2026 NCAA tournament on Friday night, falling to the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Final Four at PHX Arena in Phoenix, Arizona.

UConn entered the half leading the Gamecocks, 26-24, before South Carolina came out firing on all cylinders in the second half to pull away for a 62-48 win.

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After the game, All-American guard and the projected No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft, Azzi Fudd, spoke to the media and was brought to tears while reflecting on her time with the Huskies.

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It was an emotional moment for Fudd, who fought through several injuries throughout her career to help lead UConn to a national championship last season.

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“A lot of emotions. I mean, obviously, this isn’t how I wanted my career at UConn to end, but these five years, I have so much to be grateful for,” Fudd told reporters while fighting through tears. “I couldn’t have asked for better teammates, better coaches, a better experience. I’ll look back on college, and what I’m talking about is how this game, like I said, not how we wanted to end, but it defined us and what this team is, what this season was for us.

“So, I feel guilty, like I let the team down today, but a lot of gratitude, a lot of love, and just a lot that I’ll never be able to verbalize and thank the coaching staff, the teammates, the support staff, everyone from this program that supported me, touched me. I’ll never be able to really verbalize how much they meant to me.”

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It was a disappointing end to Fudd’s incredible time at UConn, but she has every reason to hold her head high.

Fudd ends her college career as a national champion, a first-team All-American, 2025 NCAA Tournament MOP, and a two-time first-team All-Big East honoree. Fudd is projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft to the Dallas Wings, where she would join her longtime friend and former UConn running mate, Paige Bueckers.

Dec 7, 2024; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Connecticut Huskies guard Azzi Fudd (35) and Connecticut Huskies guard Paige Bueckers (5) celebrate after the game against the Louisville Cardinals at Barclays Center.

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After the massive success of the Dhurandhar franchise, Ranveer Singh will next be seen in Pralay, a post-apocalyptic zombie thriller, directed by Hansal Mehta's son, Jai Mehta. There were reports that the movie is an adaptation of the novel Blindness by José Saramago. However, recently, in an interview, Hansal clarified that their film is not based on Blindness.

While talking to The Hollywood Reporter India, Hansal said, “It's not an adaptation. Jai and Vishal Kapoor have written the original story."

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The filmmaker added that he thinks a book like Blindness cannot be easily adapted. He said, "I had seen the 2008 film adaptation (starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo), and it wasn’t great. Writers like Saramago or Salman Rushdie… I feel they are best experienced on paper. Their books lose all their magic when interpreted for cinema.”

The reports of Pralay being based on Blindness started doing the rounds when Kalyani Priyadarshan, who reportedly plays the female lead in the film, shared a picture of reading the book and tagged Jai in her Instagram story. However, now Hansal has clarified that the film is an original story.

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Ranveer Singh Approached Jai Mehta

Hansal revealed that his son Jai was working on the idea for a long time, and it was Ranveer who approached Jai to work with him. “When Ranveer saw his (Jai) work, he reached out to him, and then Jai pitched it to him. Once Ranveer said he liked the idea, we invested in developing it, helping Jai create the world he wants to present in the film.”

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Ranveer Singh Upcoming Movies

While Ranveer has Pralay lined up, he will reportedly be teaming up with Aditya Dhar once again for a movie based on Chandragupta Maurya. However, there's no official confirmation about the film.

Meanwhile, the actor was also supposed to star in Don 3, but he has opted out of it.

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