UConn Wins Fourth Consecutive Women's NCAA Crown

Breanna Stewart and UConn stand alone. Geno Auriemma, too, after another flawless season by the dominating Huskies.

UConn won an unprecedented fourth consecutive national championship Tuesday night, capping another perfect season by routing Syracuse 82-51. Until now, only the UCLA men's team had won four in a row in Division I, rolling to seven consecutive championships under John Wooden from 1967 to '73. With Tuesday's victory, Auriemma passed the "Wizard of Westwood" with his 11th national title.

Peerless again. Perfect again.

"What those 11 championships mean to me is how many great players I've had the opportunity to coach," Auriemma said. "How many great people have come through the program. It doesn't matter whose name is above or whose name I'm under. As long as I have those players in my memory, I'm good."

Stewart said when she came to campus four years ago that she wanted to win four titles. She delivered on that promise by scoring 24 points and grabbing 10 rebounds in the final game of her brilliant college career.

"It's unbelievable," Stewart said. "That was our goal coming in here once we were freshmen, and to carry it out and win like this as seniors is unbelievable."

Stewart and fellow seniors Morgan Tuck and Moriah Jefferson posed on the ladder after cutting down the net for the final time. Mission accomplished.

"It wasn't a sense of relief; it was a sense of success. This is exactly what we wanted," Stewart said. "Going into every one of our national championship runs, we were confident, and that's what we were tonight, confident. We made history, and to be able to say that we did that with those two guys, we're going to remember that forever."

The Huskies (38-0) have been nearly unbeatable since Stewart arrived. They lost four games her freshman year and only one since. The win over Syracuse was the 75th straight for UConn, all by double figures. Stewart and her fellow seniors went 24-0 in NCAA tourney games, too.