The women’s basketball season is only a few weeks old, and the top teams already have been challenged more than in any season during the previous 10 years.
That is, unless you are talking about No. 1 Connecticut, which has won its first four games in record fashion — by an average of 43.5 points.
Throw out the Huskies, and many of the other Top 25 teams have been tested. Twenty-six of their games have come down to the wire, decided by five points or fewer or in overtime, according to the statistics agency Stats.
That is the most over the same time frame in the past decade.