alexrgct
RIP, Alex
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This would be more fun than arguing over which UConn team was the best. Rather, why not extol the virtues of a team that simply has a special place in your heart? I can see any of these teams being it for a variety of reasons:
- 1991- The great Kerry Bascom's senior year. Likable team all around. First UConn team to make the Final Four.
- 1995- Well, duh, it was the squad that broke through and won UConn's first of 10 NCs. So much more history has been re-written since, but it started at the championship level here.
- 2003- This team had no business winning a national championship after the graduation of the TASS Force, but the ragtag crew of Diana, three freshmen (Strother, Crockett, and Turner, with Nicole Wolff mostly out of commission), Jessica Moore, Ashley Battle, and Maria Conlon, put it all together. Diana was THE engine that ran the team, but the role players were essential to winning the 37 games it did.
- 2006- Nearly beat Duke in the regional finals, could have escaped with the NC had this team done so.
- 2009- Put it all together in dominant fashion after a relative drought following Diana's graduation.
- 2013- along with 2004, the other UConn team to have a relative struggle throughout the season and then get it together in the tournament. This team dominated the tourney, including an 18-point victory over long-time thorn in the side Notre Dame.
- 2014- I mean, Geno cried at the conclusion of the season. That has to be sentimental, right? The 40-0 campaign was a thing of beauty, too.