How undefeated teams do in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament
How undefeated teams do in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament
Reducing networks at the end of Final Four is sufficiently special – months of hard work ending with the national championship. But some teams will achieve even more completion of the undefeated seasons.
Since the first women’s basketball tournament in 1982, this sport has seen its fair share in perfect periods. Twenty teams even entered the undefeated tournament, half of which ended with the victory of the National Championship.
First some statistics about these 20 teams that entered the NCAA tournament undefeated:
- Ten won the National Championship
- Of these 20 teams, nine were Uconn; Six of these nine teams Uconn won the title
- 1998 was the first time two teams entered the tournament undefeated. It happened again in 2014
- In the 2014 tournament, Uconn and Notre Dame eventually played at the National Championship
- These 20 teams have a record in the 83-10 tournament, of which 75-7, because the holder in 1994 expanded to 64 teams
- Here are three programs: Uconn, South Carolina … and Vermont
Here the complete table of this regular season is undefeated.
| TEAM | RECORD (before the tournament) |
Tournament record |
Complete |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 Texas | 29-0 | 5-0 | National champion |
| 1990 Louisiana Tech | 29-0 | 3-1 | Final Four |
| 1992 vermont | 29-0 | 0-1 | First round |
| 1993 vermont | 28-0 | 0-1 | First round |
| 1995 Uconn | 29-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 1997 Uconn | 30-0 | 3-1 | Elite eight |
| 1998 Tennessee | 33-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 1998 Liberty | 28-0 | 0-1 | First round |
| 2002 Uconn | 33-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 2009 UConn | 33-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 2010 Uconn | 33-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 2012 Baylor | 34-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 2014 Uconn | 34-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 2014 Notre Dame | 32-0 | 5-1 | National Runner-up |
| 2015 Princeton | 30-0 | 1-1 | Second round |
| 2016 Uconn | 32-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
| 2017 Uconn | 32-0 | 4-1 | Final Four |
| 2018 Uconn | 32-0 | 4-1 | Final Four |
| 2023 South Carolina | 32-0 | 4-1 | Final Four |
| 2024 South Carolina | 32-0 | 6-0 | National champion |
Interestingly, in two cases, when there were several undefeated teams, they ended up in madness in March.
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In 1998, the unbeatable teams at the NCAA – Men or Women – were played for the first time when the Sec Champ Tennessee met with the great southern Liberty champion in the first round in the game No. 1 vs. No. 16. Although Liberty led soon, Lady Vols soon took over and won in 102-58 routine.
In the same year, however, the holder was disturbed by 16-1, because Harvard amazed Stanford 71-67 for the first 16-Over-1 victory in the history of the NCAA tournament.
In the second year of the head-head game between perfect units, Uconn and Notre Dame started the NCAA 2014 tournament on the opposite sides of the holder. Huskies and Irish made a dream meeting because Uconn defeated Notre Dame 79-58 in undefeated vs. undefeated national championship.
However, three of these 20 teams left March mad without winning the tournament game. Two Vermont items joined this team. Both Vermont campaigns came before expansion because Katamounts were deployed No. 9 and No. 8, lost in the first round with George Washington and Rutgers. This Vermont Run was the first time the program was completed by a successive undefeated seasons.
There has also been a five-year run of an undefeated contribution since then 2014 UConn-Inotre Dame Double, followed by Princeton (2015) and Uconn (2016-18). Of these six teams in five years, they received all seed no. 1 except Princeton. The Ivy League Tigers champion climbed to the TOP 15 AP Top 25 charts and received seed no. 8, which is the highest seed in the history of the conference. Princeton in the first round defeated Green Bay No. 9-Jen second second victory in the NCAA tournament after this disturbance of Harvard of 1998-and then in the second round fell to 1 Maryland. President Barack Obama watched the Tigers in their Madness Run in March, because his niece Leslie Robinson was a newcomer to the team. The first lady Michelle Obama also graduated from Princeton.
The last item on this special list is South Carolina. Gamecocks began March 2023 insane, but fell on Iowa and Caitlin Clark in Final Four Shocker. Gamecocks, however, completed this work in 2024, undefeated and even overthrew Iowa and Caitlin Clark for the national title.
