Maya Moore, the picture of strength for a young UConn team all season long, let the finality of it all get to her.

Despite scoring 36 points including 16 straight UConn points in one furious stretch of nearly 6 1/2 minutes, Moore could not singlehandedly shoot the Huskies into Tuesday's national championship game.

With 1.1 seconds to go and victory no longer attainable, UConn coach Geno Auriemma took Moore out of the game for the final time.

"It was an overwhelming feeling. I am disappointed and wanted to win the game obviously.

"Some of the inexperience and immaturity our team has tried to grow through came out. Sometimes you have to go through those growing pains. It hurts for it to happen in the Final Four."

Moore, who passed Cindy Blodgett, Cheryl Miller and Chamique Holdsclaw to finish as the fourth all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division I women's basketball history with 3,036 points, was forced to go it alone for stretches against Notre Dame.

The two most experience starters (Tiffany Hayes and Kelly Faris) were a combined 4 for 13 in the game and when Stefanie Dolson was limited to 25 minutes because of foul trouble, it basically became Maya Moore and Bria Hartley against Notre Dame.

It tears me apart inside. She is such a strong person so to see her breakdown it stinks because she knows how much she wanted it, how much we wanted it for her.

"It was Maya, that is what she does," Dolson said of Moore's late offensive flurry. "That is why she is the player she is but she needed help in the end and we weren't there. It (stinks) because we made the shots and we just needed some stops."