It’s pretty obvious that Men’s college basketball receives far more media attention than Women’s college basketball.  Duke’s win over Wisconsin for the Men’s championship was all anybody could talk about for the proceeding day.  The UCONN Women’s team beat Notre Dame by ten the following day to secure their third straight championship and the majority of reactions were along the lines of “so what?”  In 2014 when both the the UCONN men’s and women’s basketball teams won their respective tournaments, all attention went towards the men’s teams.  Basketball fans went crazy for the underdog men’s team who took the tournament by storm.  As for the women’s team, well, some didn’t even know there was a women’s tournament.  Men’s basketball is just more appealing to most viewers because of the fast pace action, acrobatic dunks, flashy moves, and high flying blocks.  However, I don’t think people truly understand how fantastic the UCONN women’s team has been in the recent past.

Geno Auriemma, head coach of the women’s team, has now earned his tenth national championship as a head coach, five of them having come in the last seven years.  His tenth title ties him with legendary former UCLA men’s head coach John Wooden.  Wooden is considered to be one of the, if not the, greatest college basketball coach of all time.  His ten titles and creation of a dynasty at UCLA separates him from most great coaches.  However, Auriemma has created a dynasty of his own.

Connecticut’s ten titles gives the program the honor of most national championship wins by a D1 school.  They also have the longest win streak of all time.  This team considered Kentucky’s attempted feat of a 40-0 season a walk in the park.  They went an undefeated 39-0 in the 2008/2009 season and went on to win their next fifty-one straight games until they finally lost to Stanford in 2010, halting their streak at ninety wins.

Women’s basketball will never be as popular as its male counterpart.  However, it is impossible to make an argument that this team under Auriemma can’t be considered a dynasty.  Just to give y’all a statistical example of their dominance; UCONN could have lost to Notre Dame by 192 points and still have set the D-1 record for largest single season scoring margin in history.  So yeah, they’re pretty good.