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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3057979, member: 6927"] [URL='https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/2019-02-27/womens-basketball-do-conference-tournament-championships-spark']Women's basketball: Do conference tournament championships spark NCAA title runs? | NCAA.com[/URL] Excerpts: [LIST] [*]With 64 percent of the past 25 champions also boasting conference tournament crowns, fans should feel confident picking one to win the national title but not beholden to doing so. Thirty-six percent is more than a third and only twice have teams combined to put together back-to-back years of a non-conference champion winning it all. [*]UConn seems to be a safe pick no matter what year. The Huskies have 11 national titles during this span and three came when they didn’t win their conference tournament. They won four national championships in a row from 2013-16, back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010, three straight from 2002-04, one in 2000 and another in 1995. [*]It’s rare a school doesn’t make its conference final and wins it all. Just three times in the past 25 years — Tennessee in 1997, UConn in 2004 and Tennessee again in 2007 — has it happened. Pick teams that have overcome adversity, but shy away from those who are bounced early in their conference tournaments. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]