Another of the Connecticut women’s basketball program’s lengthy winning streaks has ended.
Not since the previous iteration of the Big East Conference had the eighth-ranked Huskies lost to an intraleague opponent until Villanova escaped with a 72-69 win on the road on Wednesday.
UConn (15-5, 9-1) hadn’t lost a regular season conference game or a conference tournament game since the 2012-13 season, a stretch of 169 games including the postseason. Its last conference loss was to Notre Dame in March 2013.
The Huskies carried that run over the next seven seasons in the American Athletic Conference and continued it upon joining the current Big East for the 2020-21 season.