Unbeaten UConn women's basketball is close to a title repeat - ESPN

With a rainbow of confetti on the shoulders of his dark blue jacket, UConn Huskies women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma was in March mode. As his players danced and celebrated around him, he explained the perils of perpetual success.

«There's pressure everywhere you turn,» Auriemma said after the Huskies' 90-51 victory over Villanova in the Big East tournament final Monday in Uncasville, Connecticut. «It's never as easy as it's sometimes looked.»

The UConn women have collected conference championships the way the trophy cases of their league counterparts have collected dust. This Big East title was UConn's 31st conference tournament crown and 12th in a row, and it came on the Huskies' 50th consecutive victory.

National championships haven't quite come like clockwork, but UConn also has a record 12 of them. Now the Huskies are six victories away from their 13th NCAA title and seventh perfect season.

National championships are the standard in Storrs. The Huskies don't cut down nets for conference tournaments or even regional victories that clinch a spot in the Final Four. Monday at Mohegan Sun Arena, the players turned their championship hats upside down to collect the confetti. But it was relatively low key.

«Our work isn't done yet,» senior guard Azzi Fudd said.

UConn won the NCAA title with a 37-3 record last season. And despite losing 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year Paige Bueckers, these 34-0 Huskies led by Sarah Strong and Fudd might be even better.

But not if you ask the coach who has won every UConn championship.

«I don't know how you can take one of the top players in the WNBA off your team and say you're better,» Auriemma said. «Because there are a lot of times when I watch us play and I say, 'That wouldn't have