UCONN A PERFECT 10

If there’s a standard by which the elite are measured, it is the University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team.

The Huskies closed out the 2014-15 season on Tuesday night in Tampa with a 63-53 victory over Notre Dame to win their third consecutive NCAA championship and their 10^th under coach Geno Auriemma. They’re 10-for-10 in title games.

UConn finished 38-1, and beat Notre Dame in the final for the second consecutive season. The Irish (36-3) have been in the championship game four times in five years, but their only title came in 2001. An early loss to Stanford was the only blemish for the Huskies, who finished the season with 37 consecutive wins. Connecticut is 78-1 in the past two seasons.

The 10 titles for Auriemma tie the legendary John Wooden, who collected 10 at UCLA in men’s basketball.

“I’ll be the first to say I’m not John Wooden and I got a bunch of friends who’d tell you I’m right, I’m not,” Auriemma said. “As I said the other day I just think what we’ve done here in the last 20 years is pretty remarkable in its own right. I’ll let the people who write the history decide where I fit in.”

The 61-year-old Auriemma has time to win more and he has no problem getting the players to do it. UConn has won three consecutive titles for the second time, matching its 2002-04 blitz of the women’s college basketball world.
 
 
Post By: Larry Weisman, a longtime sportswriter for USA TODAY, blogs for Twistity.com. Follow him on Twitter @MrLarryWeisman .