STORRS -- They're back! The University of Connecticut National Championship women's basketball team landed at Bradley just after 4:15 p.m. They drove in a decked out bus honoring their accomplishments back to campus to celebrate their fourth consecutive win, but will forgo their campus victory lap due to unseasonable temperatures. No team has ever won four back to back championships.
The victory rally was scheduled for 5:15 p.m. but they were running a little late and didn't start until after 6 p.m.
No. 1 UConn won the NCAA women's basketball championship on Tuesday with an 82-51 thumping against No. 4 seed Syracuse at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. UConn is 38-0 overall.
"Coach called it impossible," said Breanna Stewart, UConn's star forward. "When you look at it when I was a freshman I'm sure it looked impossible, no one has ever done it, or done anything like four national championships but we knew that that's what we wanted to do coming in here and we had a goal in mind and we executed it."
"There was not just a national championship, but coming to the realization that three of the greatest players ever to play in Connecticut ended their careers in a way that's magical," said Geno Auriemma, the team's head coach. "It's the stuff of movies and dreams."