The Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team represents the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut in NCAA women's basketball competition. Under head coach Geno Auriemma, the Huskies have won 7 NCAA Division I national championships, advanced to 13 Final Fours, and won over 30 Big East Conference Championships. UConn has also been one of the leaders in women's basketball attendance and has produced several Olympians and WNBA All-Stars. The team has been especially successful on its home courts at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut and the XL Center in Hartford. They tied an NCAA women's basketball record with 69 consecutive home wins between 2000 and 2004 and broke it on January 5, 2011, with their 70th win in a home victory streak that began March 18, 2007.
Since losing to Stanford in the Final Four in 2008, the UConn Huskies didn't lose a game until December 2010. This loss was also against Stanford. They went 39-0 during the 2008-09 season, winning their 6th national championship, and followed it up in 2009-2010 with another 39-0 season and their 7th national title. Their winning streak went to 90 games, lasting until a 71-59 loss to Stanford on December 30, 2010. Therefore, the UConn Huskies have the longest winning streak in NCAA college basketball (men’s or women’s) history.
Read more about Connecticut Huskies Women's Basketball: 1991 Dream Season, Rebecca Lobo and The 1995 National Championship, Escalation of Rivalry With Tennessee (1996–1999), TASSK & Taurasi Era, Interbellum (2005–2007), Maya Moore Era (2008–2011), Team of The Decade, Geno Auriemma Head Coaching Record, WNBA Success
Famous quotes containing the words women and/or basketball:
“Forgive you?—Oh, of course, dear,
A dozen times a week!
We women were created
Forgiveness but to speak.”
—Ella Higginson (1862–1940)
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)