STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Both Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma and Baylor’s Kim Mulkey head into the showdown between the nation’s top two women’s teams insisting that a loss would not be that big a deal.
No. 2 Baylor has a chance to snap the top-ranked Huskies’ 79-game winning streak on Tuesday, avenge last season’s loss in the national semifinals and end the Huskies’ 45-week run as the nation’s top team.
Auriemma says his team is much more focused on getting better and being in position to compete for an eighth national title.
Mulkey says her team also is looking to build from the game, and find out what it needs to do to improve.
UConn hasn’t lost a game in 141 weeks, since falling to Stanford in the 2008 Final Four.