{"id":111184,"date":"2016-04-06T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=111184"},"modified":"2016-04-13T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:39:44","slug":"four-in-a-row-huskies-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/04\/four-in-a-row-huskies-make-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Four in a Row: Huskies Make History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"UConn Huskies Celebrate Record Eleventh Title\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iGxxYKd9rZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The UConn women\u2019s basketball team made history last\u00a0night, with their 82-51 win over Syracuse in the\u00a0NCAA National Championship game.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are extraordinary: one program, eleven national titles, six undefeated seasons; four years, four national championships; three seniors\u00a0\u2013 Breanna\u00a0Stewart,\u00a0Morgan Tuck, and Moriah Jefferson\u00a0\u2013 with four\u00a0championships apiece.<\/p>\n<p>And there are other numbers that reflect just what the program is made of: Stewart\u2019s four-in-a-row honors as NCAA Final Four\u00a0most outstanding\u00a0player; the team&#8217;s current unbroken stretch of 75 wins (though that number hasn\u2019t yet surpassed the Huskies\u2019 previous winning streak of 90 games from 2008 through 2011).<\/p>\n<p>And, importantly, a couple of dozen\u00a0former players among the fans watching the game\u00a0at Indianapolis, including <span class=\"entry-content\">UConn greats Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, and Maya Moore. <\/span>In addition, one alumna \u2013 Shea Ralph \u2013 was on the sidelines as assistant coach, and another \u2013 Rebecca Lobo \u2013 onsite as a\u00a0commentator for ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>From a team that once\u00a0played in Field House with just a handful of friends and families to\u00a0cheer them on, over the past 30 years, head coach Geno Auriemma and associate head coach Chris Dailey have built the program into the preeminent women\u2019s college basketball program in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The records set last night are going to be hard for any team to beat \u2013 except perhaps the Huskies themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This season was the sixth undefeated season for Auriemma, with the team averaging a winning margin of 39.9 points per game.The last time the women lost was on Nov. 17, 2014, in an 88-86 overtime loss at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>And a certain basketball court in Washington, D.C., as <a href=\"http:\/\/fox61.com\/2015\/09\/15\/obama-to-honor-uconn-women-for-2015-basketball-title\/\">President Obama joked to the team<\/a> on their third consecutive champions\u2019 visit to the White House last year, may just be looking at getting a new name.<\/p>\n<p>Among the records set last night:<\/p>\n<p>Coach Auriemma passed legendary John Wooden for the most NCAA basketball titles of all time. The late John Wooden, men\u2019s basketball coach at UCLA, won 10 national titles, the most in college ball history. Auriemma has never lost a championship game. The wins: 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"entry-content\">&#8220;What those 11 championships mean to me is how many great players I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to coach,&#8221; Auriemma told the media. &#8220;How many great people have come through the program. It doesn&#8217;t matter whose name is above, or whose name I&#8217;m under. As long as I have those players in my memory, I&#8217;m good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With last night&#8217;s win, Stewart became the first player to win the Final Four Most Outstanding Player Award four times. No other player has even won three.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"entry-content\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a sense of relief, it was a sense of success. This is exactly what we wanted,&#8221; Stewart said to the media afterward. &#8220;Going into every one of our national championship runs, we were confident and that&#8217;s what we were tonight, confident.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A championship rally for the team will be held today in Gampel Pavilion at approximately 5:15 p.m. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":111190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2225,2233,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1920],"class_list":["post-111184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-news","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:55:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111184"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111488,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111184\/revisions\/111488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/111190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111184"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=111184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=111184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}