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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4527735, member: 199"] Good posts and all true, and not that different from what has happened in the absence of TN in recent years. ND had a string of serious success against Uconn - the overall record is 39-13 in Uconn's favour, but almost half of ND's wins were from 2011-2013 in a 1-6 streak and two more in 2018 and 2019 NCAAs and three of those 9 games were OT losses. Baylor is a much closer 5-4 series because Kim tends to duck people when her team isn't really competitive (something you can't do in conference (or when the media whines loudly when Muffet tried to after they left the BE) but in the middle there was a 2-4 streak against Baylor. The South Carolina series is now 9-4, but Uconn is on a 1-4 streak. In all but the first two games of the series, SC has been ranked with 6 of those ranking being #1 and one a #2 (the others: one #6, two #7, and one #11.) Being a powerhouse through decades is something special. What is unique for Uconn during the last decade plus is that they have never dropped into the 'also ran' category 14 straight FF is unprecedented - 5 was the record set by Uconn in the Bird Taurasi era and match by Stanford and ND. Dawn is on a string of 2 with a great team. After Lobo and after Taurasi there were two three year gaps in making a FF - that hasn't happened after Maya/Tina, nor after Stewart/Jefferson/Tuck, but we sometimes we forget just how hard a FF actually is, and that an actual NC is really, really hard. Two teams have ever repeated TN and Uconn - no one else has. [/QUOTE]

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