Believe it or not, but once upon a time, Connecticut would go whole seasons at a time without winning the NCAA women's basketball title.
In 2006, for instance, the Huskies did not even make the Final Four. They hadn't made the national semifinals the year before, and they wouldn't the year after. It was a different time. Donald Trump was known mainly for saying, "You're fired." There was still a housing bubble. We didn't have "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" or the iPhone.
What we did have was an up-and-coming fourth-year coach at Maryland whose team almost never lost, and never in overtime.