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Monday, December 20, 2010

Another streak on the line as well

With all the hoopla surrounding UConn tying the UCLA men's basketball NCAA Division I record 88-game winning streak on Sunday and going for No. 89 in a row on Tuesday against Florida State, another streak has gone relatively unnoticed.

If UConn wins tomorrow night, it will be its 69th straight home win tying the NCAA Division I women's basketball record set by Tennessee from 1991-96 and matched by UConn from 2001-04.

This streak has been a little hard to write about because the NCAA's definition of a home game was a little fuzzy. I have been bugging PR people from UConn and the Big East in recent weeks to get a clarification of what constitutes a home game. At first I was told that Big East and NCAA tournament games at either Gampel Pavilion or the XL Center would not count as UConn home games which I thought was silly. After further review, the NCAA is counting all games the Huskies play at the XL Center and Gampel as home games. Therefore, the last home loss came to Rutgers in the 2007 Big East tournament final. Since then the Huskies have won 68 straight home games.

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