The UConn Women's Basketball team entered the 2002-03 season coming off a perfect 39-0 record and National Title from the year prior. The team, however, lost 4 of it's 5 starters to the WNBA draft.

The Huskies rolled to an 11-0 record, setting up their first big test of the season, a match-up vs Tennessee in Hartford. After a thrilling 63-62 OT win, UConn was now only 3 games away from breaking the all-time consecutive win streak record, 54 games, for women's basketball. Which Louisiana Tech set from 1980-82.

​After a win at Seton Hall to tie the record, Connecticut beat Georgetown to break the record.

​They would extend their winning streak to 70 games before finally losing in the Big East Tournament Finals to Villanova.

​UConn entered the NCAA tournament as a 1 seed and rolled through their first 4 opponents, setting up a match-up with the Texas Longhorns in the Final Four. UConn overcame a 9 point second half deficit to reach the championship game.

​The 2003 NCAA Finals was a rematch of the OT game in Hartford earlier in the season vs the Lady Vols. Despite building a 13 point lead late in the second half, Tennessee battled back late, but the deficit was too much to overcome and the UConn Huskies won back-to-back titles for the first time in their program's history. A feat they have accomplished 6 times.

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