UConn’s women’s basketball glory years can sometimes feel as if they had no beginning, but if you look in the record book you’ll find it. The Huskies’ first regular season conference title came in 1989, by 2 1/2 games over Villanova; the upstarts then lost to La Salle in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Almost four decades later, an older version of UConn coach Geno Auriemma is still going strong. After the undefeated Huskies beat Georgetown 84–52 Thursday to wrap up the Big East regular season crown, Auriemma described the feeling of his 32nd conference title to reporters.
