They received an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament and won their ninth National Championship by defeating Notre Dame.

It was just the second time in NCAA history the same school had won both the men's and women's tournaments; UConn first accomplished that feat in 2004.

[4] In the gold medal game against the host, Russia, Hartley was the leading scorer with 17 points on 6-for-7 shooting from the field.

Hamilton led late in the game, but Chong scored 24 points in the fourth quarter to lead her team to an 88–79 victory.

Briana Pulido is a sophomore from Florida who was on the track and field team, but will drop that sport to concentrate on basketball.

The game result, though was over-shadowed by an injury to Mosqueda-Lewis, who fell hard to the floor, landing on her right arm, and filled the arena with her cries.

In addition the Mosqueda-Lewis, who was injured in the prior game and out indefinitely, Tuck underwent knee surgery which was expected to keep her out for four to six weeks.

UConn held a five-point lead at intermission, which Maryland quickly countered in the beginning of the second half, tying the game at 43 points each.

Thomas scored 20 points for Maryland, but Stewart had 26, which helped UConn win 72–55, in front of 15,327 fans in the arena.

She went over to teammate Mosqueda-Lewis, sitting on the bench with an injury, but a player who led the nation in three points shooting the prior year.

Late in the game, the UConn staff realized that Stefanie Dolson was close to a triple-double, so she returned to the floor, and earned an assist to complete the accomplishment.

All eight teams then played on December 1 at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, located near the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Kiah Stokes led the term in scoring for the first time in her career, putting up a career-high 19 points, along with eight rebounds and four blocked shots.

Injuries to Mosqueda-Lewis and Tuck reduced that lineup even further, and as the team prepared for the University of California-Davis, Stokes turned an ankle and was unavailable for practice and the game.

She wore a protective sleeve, and the coaching staff had no idea how she would fare, even to the point of preparing a game plan in case she was ineffective, but her return was solid.

[35][36] UConn then traveled to Madison Square Garden to participate in the Maggie Dixon classic, and annual event honoring the Army coach.

Stewart had 29 points, matching a career high, along with ten rebounds to help the Huskies to a win over number 20 ranked California.

[37][38] The last game of the calendar year, December 29, against Cincinnati, featured a ceremony to honor the national championship team of 2003 and 2003.

USF's Briahanna Jackson scored 28 points to lead all scorers, but UConn as a team outscored the Knights to win 77–49.

The streak began March 7, 2010, which meant no player on the current Bears team had ever lost a game at home.

4 in the country, and came in with only a single loss on the season, winners of their last 16 games, the longest winning streak in school history.

His team held UConn to the lowest points total of the season, as well as the fewest made field goals.

[54] UConn had a bye for the first session of the tournament and played their first game on Saturday, March 7 against Cincinnati, the number 8 seed and winner of the 8/9 match-up with Central Florida.

In the second half, Stanford had an early three-point shot to cut the lead to three, but they would not score again for over five minutes, by which time the margin reach 17 points at 44–27.

Notre Dame's best post player, Natalie Achonwa, was not playing due to an ACL injury, so UConn pushed the ball inside.

They would end up with a 52–22 points in the paint advantage, the "most dominating post performance women's basketball has witnessed in a title game".

However, Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch warned in a pre-game write-up "...UConn has always been a team of runs ("spurtability," as Clark Kellogg would say) especially early in the second half".

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[70] For many years, the NCAA earliest-allowable date for formal practice was the same day for all basketball teams, both men and women.

After competing against each other in trivia games where they had to identify cartoon characters drawn by three-year-olds, they played a five-on-five scrimmage, generally with three males and two females on each team.