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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3538475, member: 2117"] 109 and 111 streaks are quite similar, although slight edge to Penn State since it spanned over 3 titles. I don't think any of UCONN's title teams dominated to the same degree that the 2008 Penn State team did. As someone else noted, not only did they never lose, but they didn't lose a single set until the national semifinals. That's similar to winning all 4 quarters every single game all season long besides once. Statistically that team was insane with their hitting percentage and overall efficiency. The caliber of opponent was also very good in the NCAAs that year. The team they dropped sets to, Nebraska, had 2 future Olympians and the game was on the road in Omaha in front of the biggest crowd in NCAA history. Then after winning that match, Penn State casually swept an incredibly loaded Stanford team with Foluke/Klineman/Barboza. Texas was the other semifinal team who featured several future national team members including Destinee Hooker who is probably the most dominant indoor player the USA has had in 20+ years. I will say the overall stretch of UCONN from 2009-2018 is more impressive to me than Penn State from 2007-2014 despite both programs winning 6 titles. UCONN had 4 undefeated seasons, and 2 other undefeated seasons until the Final Four. In 8 of the 10 years UCONN either won the title or had an undefeated season entering the NCAAs. 8 of 10 years, UCONN was the #1 overall seed going into every post season besides 2012 (#3) and 2013 (#3). Penn State put together 6 titles during their stretch but only in 2008/2009 were they #1 overall entering the tournament, compared to 8 years for UCONN. 08/09 were the only truly dominant Penn State years where they won back to back undefeated titles. Looking at the other years, 2007 was an INSANELY loaded season and a young Penn State team proved to be top dog but they were not the clear cut favorite to win it all going into the NCAAs. 2010 they struggled early before coming on strong and winning a 4th straight. 2011 they weren't very good, and 2012 they lost in the semis largely due to an injury but they weren't a top title favorite that year. 2013/2014 they won it all, but again, they were not odds on favorites entering the post season. Haven't been as good since then, only getting back to the semis once in 2017. [/QUOTE]

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