UConn legends watch as Huskies win championship: 'This doesn't happen everywhere'
Multiple players from each of UConn's first 11 national champions and also their first Final Four team were there to congratulate the Huskies and their former coach Geno Auriemma as well as his first recruit from 1985, Kris (Lamb) Caruso.
"This doesn't happen everywhere," Auriemma said. "This doesn't happen often if at all. To have that many former national champions from your school come watch and see you play is special, but we have a special bond with all of our players and that bond is never going to be broken."
It's easy to understand why that is.
"Coach Auriemma for four decades now has helped women grow into the best versions of themselves," 1995 national champion, Player of the Year at UConn and ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo said. "He's helped women have their lives changed in all the right ways. We all feel indebted to him from the moment we move on.
Bueckers joined Stewart as the only UConn players to be named to the all-Final Four team four times. The fifth-year guard joined Moore as the only players in NCAA Tournament history to be named a regional MOP four times. She had 17 points Sunday and finishes her career No. 1 in points per game in UConn history at 19.83 per game. Moore held the mark for 14 years at 19.71.