UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Rare is the team that grows this much during a season. Rare is the team that comes together at the right time, exactly the way the most starry-eyed optimist would have envisioned.
Rare, too, is the team that loses its best player for most of the season and doesn’t need to ask the impossible of her when she returns.
This UConn women’s basketball team is a rare one. It’s not yet time to compare the Huskies to their 11 championship predecessors; that’s not the point. But this team, the way it has evolved into a formidable collection of talent that is even better than the sum of its parts, is a unique chapter in the program’s history. The 70-40 victory over Villanova in the Big East Tournament final Monday night at Mohegan Sun Arena isn’t the end but another beginning.
