Thoughts on UConn's 14 consecutive Final Fours

Viet Vet · Mar 30, 2022

Dogstar said:
Idk if it's been mentioned but the 11- 0 streak in championships is not too shabby, so many UConn wbb streaks tht will be incredibly hard to break.

THAT is a much bigger deal.

browns · Mar 30, 2022

Viet Vet said:
THAT is a much bigger deal.

But that's different b/c it's not every year this happened..to play for the title u have to get to the final four..so Uconn has had a chance every year for 14 srtaight years to play for the title

JonathanXIV · Mar 30, 2022

Cuango said:
14 consecutive final fours is truly a great, possibly unbreakable record. However, imo the most impressive record is UConn not losing consecutive games since 1993! Actually, on second thought, those two records may be tied.

Unbreakable? To break UConn simply needs to make the Final Four next year. Now, if you're talking about another school breaking it, well....

JonathanXIV · Mar 30, 2022

cohenzone said:
When you realize, win or lose, that we are darn lucky fans who get to see our team so often through the last possible weekend of the season, it’s amazing. Throw in the UConn men several times and UConn fans have been pretty spoiled. Sometimes being spoiled isn’t so bad.

Spoiled? Does anyone remember UConn basketball before the 90's? Ouch.

cohenzone · Mar 30, 2022

JonathanXIV said:
Spoiled? Does anyone remember UConn basketball before the 90's? Ouch.

Um, you must let go of the distant past. Should I still fret about what Burr Carlson did to Fred Shabel’s program. I remember the late 60’s quite well. We are definitely spoiled by almost 30 years of excellence let alone so many FF in a row.

jpp13 · Mar 30, 2022

For the best context. UConn has been to the Final Four for Dawn's entire tenure at SC.

JonathanXIV · Mar 30, 2022

cohenzone said:
Um, you must let go of the distant past. Should I still fret about what Burr Carlson did to Fred Shabel’s program. I remember the late 60’s quite well. We are definitely spoiled by almost 30 years of excellence let alone so many FF in a row.

I remember bringing a girl to a UConn game in the Fieldhouse. She laughed at how bad we were. And she went to George Washington, hardly a basketball powerhouse. The idea od UConn being the basketball capital of the world wasn’t even a dream at that point.

cohenzone · Mar 30, 2022

JonathanXIV said:
I remember bringing a girl to a UConn game in the Fieldhouse. She laughed at how bad we were. And she went to George Washington, hardly a basketball powerhouse. The idea od UConn being the basketball capital of the world wasn’t even a dream at that point.

I was at UConn during the Toby Kimball-Wes Bialosuknia era. Team was very good. No women's hoops. heck, women had curfews. As I said, being spoiled is not so bad. Geno‘s bad years are almost everyone else’s good year.

CTGirl15 · Mar 30, 2022

The 14 straight is so hard to wrap my mind around; that was Maya Moore's freshman year. It feels like the team has gone through 5 different lifetimes since then, but they have still made it to the final weekend each season.

MilfordHusky · Mar 30, 2022

CTGirl15 said:
The 14 straight is so hard to wrap my mind around; that was Maya Moore's freshman year. It feels like the team has gone through 5 different lifetimes since then, but they have still made it to the final weekend each season.

One of Maya's many accomplishments was to get us back to the Final Four.

Maya played in all 154 game of her career and went 150-4: a national semi-final loss to Stanford as a freshman and another to Notre Dame as a senior; a loss to Rutgers in which Maya made 2 consecutive threes very late and needed one more touch to tie the game; and a regular season loss at Stanford in which the whole team and Geno were sick and Chiney should have been called for multiple holding calls on Maya.

Dogstar · Mar 30, 2022

browns said:
But that's different b/c it's not every year this happened..to play for the title u have to get to the final four..so Uconn has had a chance every year for 14 srtaight years to play for the title

It says whn we make it..we take it

VA Huskie · Mar 31, 2022

cohenzone said:
When you realize, win or lose, that we are darn lucky fans who get to see our team so often through the last possible weekend of the season, it’s amazing. Throw in the UConn men several times and UConn fans have been pretty spoiled. Sometimes being spoiled isn’t so bad.

Amen, amen I say to you. We are extremely fortunate. I say that to my wife frequently. As a sports fan you can’t ask for more!

Glenn · Mar 31, 2022

During the past 14 years, our Elite 8 game has generally not proven to be competitive until recently. I was surprised that we typically won those games handily, given the common refrain about how hard they are.

	team	seed	margin
2008	Rutgers	2	10
2009	Arizona St.	6	19
2010	Florida	3	40
2011	Duke	2	35
2012	Kentucky	2	15
2013	Kentucky	2	30
2014	Texas A&M	3	15
2015	Dayton	7	21
2016	Texas	2	21
2017	Oregon	10	38
2018	South Carolina	2	29
2019	Louisville	1	7
2020	none
2021	Baylor	2	2
2022	NC State	1	4

uconnfan68 · Mar 31, 2022

Glenn said:
During the past 14 years, our Elite 8 game has generally not proven to be competitive until recently. I was surprised that we typically won those games handily, given the common refrain about how hard they are.

team seed margin
2008
Rutgers
2
10
2009
Arizona St.
6
19
2010
Florida
3
40
2011
Duke
2
35
2012
Kentucky
2
15
2013
Kentucky
2
30
2014
Texas A&M
3
15
2015
Dayton
7
21
2016
Texas
2
21
2017
Oregon
10
38
2018
South Carolina
2
29
2019
Louisville
1
7
2020
none
2021
Baylor
2
2
2022
NC State
1
4

I miss those routs. Too much agita.

UConnCat · Mar 31, 2022

MilfordHusky said:
and a regular season loss at Stanford in which the whole team and Geno were sick and Chiney should have been called for multiple holding calls on Maya.

Chiney played like she thought it was a rugby match which makes Tara’s comments before the elite 8 game against Texas deeply ironic. Geno said afterwards that the team needed helmets for that game.

Beemer · Mar 31, 2022

14 straight Final Fours is a standard of consistent excellence that may never be equaled by any team in any NCAA sport.

Wrap your head around that, if you can.

hoopsfan22 · Mar 31, 2022

Beemer said:
14 straight Final Fours is a standard of consistent excellence that may never be equaled by any team in any NCAA sport.

Wrap your head around that, if you can.

As posted earlier in the thread, UNC women's soccer and Syracuse men's lacrosse went to 22 consecutive final fours.

Beemer · Mar 31, 2022

hoopsfan22 said:
As posted earlier in the thread, UNC women's soccer and Syracuse men's lacrosse went to 22 consecutive final fours.

I was not aware of that since I started at the end of the thread. Thanks!

DefenseBB · Mar 31, 2022

The real interesting aspect is our team is really very much bifurcated between Seniors and underclassman-4 Seniors (ONO, CW, EW and Dorka) and our underclassman core of Paige, Azzi, Aaliyah, Nika and Caroline. The future bolds well even with so many of the other teams keeping 5th year players.

pacific 44 · Mar 31, 2022

A record that will be tough to beat if i am correct, is that the Uconn guys are 4-0 in ncaa finals and the gals are 11-0 which when combined is 15-0 in the finals. When will that record be broken? After this year,16-0 sounds good.

Geew1992 · Mar 31, 2022

This is absolutely amazing. And all people focus on is not winning a championship since 2016.

sun · Mar 31, 2022

Mississippi's OT buzzer beater in the 2017 FF that broke UConn's 111 game win streak was a heart breaker.
This could be the year that makes up for it.
Beating 3 #1's would certainly match up with having the streak ended at 111 games.

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