UConn Women: Perfect Again
SAN ANTONIO — For the past two years, a stretch of unmatched dominance reflected by its NCAA-record 77 consecutive victories, the UConn women’s basketball team had been perfection personified.
But the Huskies, who stormed their way to their seventh appearance in the NCAA championship by an average winning margin of 41.6 points, were far from perfect in last night’s title game at the Alamodome. Still, UConn overcame all its imperfections — a season-low 32.8 shooting percentage, including 17.2 percent in the first half that resulted in a tournament-record and school-history low 12 points — to score a 53-47 victory over Stanford, the last team to beat the Huskies, two years ago in the semifinals of the Final Four.
The Huskies, who had been tested in their 70-50 victory over Baylor in the semifinals when the Lady Bears pulled within 3 in the second half, saved their grittiest and most impressive effort for last, overcoming a 20-12 halftime deficit with a 32-9 run. It cemented the Huskies’ place in the NCAA record books as the first women’s team to win back-to-back undefeated national championships, and the first of either gender to do so since John Wooden’s UCLA teams of 1972 and 1973.
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