MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Your 2023-24 Lady Raiders, 2007-08 UTEP, 2010-11 Houston and 2018-19 Rice: What do those four teams have in common?
Your 2023-24 Lady Raiders and the 2023-24 squads for UConn, Fairfield, South Carolina, Gonzaga, FGCU, Jackson State and South Dakota State: What do these eight teams have in common?
The answer for both: conference play perfection. All eleven of those teams ran through their conference's gauntlet in a given season and came out the other side without a loss. In the 2023-24 Lady Raiders' case, that was a 16-0 mark that was clinched with another dominant win on Saturday, dispatching Louisiana Tech 79-58 before it was even noon in Murfreesboro.