With the AAC tournament looming over us this week, it is time to post this annual chestnut. Including the 2009 season, UConn has made either the Big East or AAC conference tournament Saturday semifinals (unless the schedule is change due to weather, like it was last year) every year except one during that time period. The one exception was the first AAC tournament in 2014, when the format was changed away from the traditional double elimination format, so that there was basically no conference semifinal (everyone hated the format for that tourney, so it was quickly changed back). UConn has reached the Saturday semi final games 9 tournaments in a row, not including the oddly formatted 2014 tourney. UConn has won the conference championship twice and made three other appearances in the championship game during that time. I find it to be quite an achievement. We’ll see if Coach Penders and UConn can keep that streak alive for another year.
