Whoa, Baylor snapped U-Conn.'s 126-game regular season winning streak

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Whoa, Baylor snapped U-Conn.'s 126-game regular season winning streak

By Matt Bonesteel
January 4 at 8:13 AM

The Connecticut women’s basketball team has not won a national title since 2016, which is weird enough. But to see the Huskies lose in the regular season is downright nutty, and that’s exactly what happened Thursday night when eighth-ranked Baylor scored a 68-57 home win over top-ranked U-Conn., snapping its streak of 126 straight regular season victories.

The Huskies’ last loss between November and March took place on Nov. 17, 2014, when they lost in overtime to Stanford. They hadn’t lost a regular season game in regulation since a loss to the defending national champion Lady Bears on Feb. 18, 2013. They hadn’t lost a regular season game by double digits since Barack Obama’s first term as president, a 13-point defeat to Notre Dame on Feb. 27, 2012.

So yeah, taking down Geno Aueriemma’s team is a pretty big deal, even if Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey tried to claim it was just another game on the schedule.
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Matt Bonesteel spent the first 17 years of his Washington Post career writing and editing. In 2014, Bonesteel pivoted from the newspaper to online and now he blogs for the Early Lead and other Web-based products owned by The Post. Follow https://twitter.com/MattBonesteel

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