Streaks, Stats, and Stuff to Consider

[YKCornelius]

As a stats guy, I’ve spent a bunch of free time this off-season going through the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Basketball Record Book and last year’s UConn WBB Media Guide. Both contain a lot of interesting info, including streaks and stats that have been impacted by the Huskies' run to their 12th NCAA championship.

With less than a month to go until the scrimmage with Boston College, it seems like a good time to take stock of how last season set the table for this year. Here’s some interesting stuff for UConn Nation to ponder heading into this season:

1. UConn enters the 2025-26 season on a 15-game winning streak, one of three D-1 teams who did not lose their final game last season. As many Boneyarders know, the program holds four of the top five D-I winning streaks of all time: 111, 90, 70 and 47 games. If the Huskies can somehow run the table this year, they will own the top four, dropping Louisiana Tech (54 straight wins) down into the fifth spot.

2. Regarding winning streaks, UConn has had seven streaks of 30+ games, the most of any program in D-1 history. Baylor is in second place with five such 30+ streaks.

3. All 15 games of Huskies’ current winning streak are double-digit victories. UConn owns the top three double-digit winning streaks in D-I history: 77, 75 and 47 games. All three of these streaks span undefeated seasons. In fact, UConn is the only D-I program to go through an entire season winning each game by double digits, and they have accomplished this three times!

4. On the topic of undefeated seasons, it is well-known amongst WCBB fans that the Huskies have had six undefeated seasons, whereas no other D-I program has had more than one. However, fans new to the program might not be aware that UConn also owns the most “one-loss” seasons (six) of any D-I team. South Carolina and Old Dominion are in second place with two one-loss seasons. (For those who are counting, the Huskies also have three two-loss seasons, behind Stanford and Baylor who each have four.)

5. Last year’s 37-3 record was UConn’s 25th season of four or fewer losses. Tennessee is in second place with 17 such seasons. In those 25 seasons, the Huskies are 875-46 for a .950 winning percentage.

6. When the Huskies defeated South Carolina at Colonial Life Arena this past February, they ended the Gamecocks home court winning streak at 71 games, which was the fourth longest of all-time. UConn owns the top two home court winning streaks at 99 and 98 games, and is tied for the fifth longest as well (69 games). For trivia buffs: the UConn has had a starring role in the seven longest D-I home-court winning streaks, owning three of them while being the opponent who ended the other four: Stanford (82 games), South Carolina (71), Tennessee (69) and Baylor (69).

7. Last season the Huskies led the nation in field goal percentage at 50.9%, the only team in D-1 to shoot above 50 percent from the field. It was also the 12th time UConn has led the nation - the most of any D-1 program since the the three-point shot was introduced in 1986-87 (Iowa is in second place with the best FG percentage four times). It also marked their 17th season above 50% - also tops in D-1 (Maryland is in second place with seven seasons).

8. With her 25 points in the championship game, Azzi Fudd became the 52nd Huskie to score 1,000 points in her career. At 1,014 points, she needs 40 to overtake Ashley Battle for 50th place. Ashlynn Shade (727 pts) and Sarah Strong (657) are both within striking distance of joining the 1K point club this season. Serah Williams, currently sitting at 1,494 points, has an outside chance at joining the 2K club for her career - providing she can stay healthy and UConn goes far in the NCAA tournament.

Pretty cool stuff - can't wait for the season to start!

 

[DEFCONN1]

Very good stuff Yukon. Thanks for your time and effort !

 

[RockyMTblue2]

If a Tennessee fan or pouty Dawn were here they would say that beyond impressive stat pile was a product of the Big East. Remember when that was the seemingly unending cry of the Orange and I don't mean Syracuse? Streaks like that don't just happen. They speak to the excellence UConn put on the floor every night.

 

[jcoton56]

As a stats guy, I’ve spent a bunch of free time this off-season going through the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Basketball Record Book and last year’s UConn WBB Media Guide. Both contain a lot of interesting info, including streaks and stats that have been impacted by the Huskies' run to their 12th NCAA championship.

With less than a month to go until the scrimmage with Boston College, it seems like a good time to take stock of how last season set the table for this year. Here’s some interesting stuff for UConn Nation to ponder heading into this season:

1. UConn enters the 2025-26 season on a 15-game winning streak, one of three D-1 teams who did not lose their final game last season. As many Boneyarders know, the program holds four of the top five D-I winning streaks of all time: 111, 90, 70 and 47 games. If the Huskies can somehow run the table this year, they will own the top four, dropping Louisiana Tech (54 straight wins) down into the fifth spot.

2. Regarding winning streaks, UConn has had seven streaks of 30+ games, the most of any program in D-1 history. Baylor is in second place with five such 30+ streaks.

3. All 15 games of Huskies’ current winning streak are double-digit victories. UConn owns the top three double-digit winning streaks in D-I history: 77, 75 and 47 games. All three of these streaks span undefeated seasons. In fact, UConn is the only D-I program to go through an entire season winning each game by double digits, and they have accomplished this three times!

4. On the topic of undefeated seasons, it is well-known amongst WCBB fans that the Huskies have had six undefeated seasons, whereas no other D-I program has had more than one. However, fans new to the program might not be aware that UConn also owns the most “one-loss” seasons (six) of any D-I team. South Carolina and Old Dominion are in second place with two one-loss seasons. (For those who are counting, the Huskies also have three two-loss seasons, behind Stanford and Baylor who each have four.)

5. Last year’s 37-3 record was UConn’s 25th season of four or fewer losses. Tennessee is in second place with 17 such seasons. In those 25 seasons, the Huskies are 875-46 for a .950 winning percentage.

6. When the Huskies defeated South Carolina at Colonial Life Arena this past February, they ended the Gamecocks home court winning streak at 71 games, which was the fourth longest of all-time. UConn owns the top two home court winning streaks at 99 and 98 games, and is tied for the fifth longest as well (69 games). For trivia buffs: the UConn has had a starring role in the seven longest D-I home-court winning streaks, owning three of them while being the opponent who ended the other four: Stanford (82 games), South Carolina (71), Tennessee (69) and Baylor (69).

7. Last season the Huskies led the nation in field goal percentage at 50.9%, the only team in D-1 to shoot above 50 percent from the field. It was also the 12th time UConn has led the nation - the most of any D-1 program since the the three-point shot was introduced in 1986-87 (Iowa is in second place with the best FG percentage four times). It also marked their 17th season above 50% - also tops in D-1 (Maryland is in second place with seven seasons).

8. With her 25 points in the championship game, Azzi Fudd became the 52nd Huskie to score 1,000 points in her career. At 1,014 points, she needs 40 to overtake Ashley Battle for 50th place. Ashlynn Shade (727 pts) and Sarah Strong (657) are both within striking distance of joining the 1K point club this season. Serah Williams, currently sitting at 1,494 points, has an outside chance at joining the 2K club for her career - providing she can stay healthy and UConn goes far in the NCAA tournament.

Pretty cool stuff - can't wait for the season to start!

You’ve certainly whet my appetite for some Huskies hoops!

 

[Huskee11]

Interesting stuff, you are definitely a stats guy!

I think Serah has more than an outside chance to get to 2,000 points though. If she needs 506, she would need to average about 12.7 over 40 games.

That is very doable. Her minutes may be limited due to roster size and blowout wins, that is the major thing that would work against her. Assuming she stays healthy of course.

 

[ucmiami2]

For the majority of those streaks and stats, the big east was either the strongest or second strongest conference in the country. Rutgers, ND, Louisville and a few others help establish that. When the BE dissolved and we joined the American that went away, but we continued to rank very high in the SOS numbers based on a very tough OOC. Only two of the undefeated seasons we had were during that period and one more before that period when the competition in WCBB as a whole was really spotty so 'conference strength' really didn't much matter.

And the reality isn't that different today - seldom do conferences actually have two elite teams and almost never three - they may have more mid-tier teams which are often the teams that 'trip up' winning streaks but what stands out in Uconns record under Geno in how infrequently Uconn has lost to non-elite teams. Their winning streak against unranked teams, and their streak of not having a two game losing streak both point to that consistency as much as the undefeated streaks and home win streaks. (I believe they also have some enviable road win streaks but am too lazy to do the research.)

Back to conference strength - I wonder how many times the various conferences have had 2 teams at the FF and in the championship game - I know the Big East did that often - ND and Uconn, Rutgers and Uconn, Louisville and Uconn, and Syracuse and Uconn. For most of Tara's career she was the lone Pac representative, same for Kim and the Big12, Brenda had her one memorable battle with Duke and NC from the ACC. Pat at TN and LSU had a strong stretch, and LSU under Kim and Dawn are a new dynamic so the SEC has been similar to the BE. And it is noticiable that BE defectors have been frequent FF participants lead by ND but with cameos by both Louisville and Syracuse.
And not included above is that final four streak, and record appearances to go with the record NCs.

 

[Bone Dog]

If Sarah continues at her current scoring clip — 657 last season she’ll eclipse Paige (and perhaps even Stewie) on the all time scoring list. It’s a little unfair to Paige, of course, since she had ~30 fewer games than Maya, Stewie and Phee. Give Paige another 30 or so games and she might have topped the list.

 

[Bigboote]

First, thanks Cornelius for putting this together. I'm a numbers guy, and seeing those numbers really gives me a lot more perspective.

Second, I haven't looked forward to the start of a season this much for a long time. Probably since the season Azzi arrived. The combination of returning and new players gives so many different possibilities, it should be fun to watch.

 

[YKCornelius]

On a side note, if any 'yarders have an inside track to anyone in the UConn Sports Information Department, it would be appreciated if you could use your contacts to have someone quickly review/revise the "1,000/2,000/3,000 Career Point Scorers" page of the Media Guide before the 2025-26 version hits the streets in the next month or so.

The past five versions of the Media Guide have incorrectly double-counted Megan Walker in the list, currently showing her in 43rd place as well as 45th.