2024–25 UConn Huskies women's basketball team
| 2024–25 UConn Huskies women's basketball | |
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Big East regular season & tournament champions Baha Mar Women's Championship champions | |
NCAA tournament champions | |
| Conference | Big East Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 1 |
| AP | No. 1 |
| Record | 37–3 (18–0 Big East) |
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| Associate head coach | Chris Dailey (40th season) |
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| Home arena | Harry A. Gampel Pavilion XL Center |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 1 UConn † | 18 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 37 | – | 3 | .925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 23 Creighton | 16 | – | 2 | .889 | 26 | – | 7 | .788 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seton Hall | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 23 | – | 10 | .697 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marquette | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 21 | – | 11 | .656 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 11 | – | 7 | .611 | 21 | – | 15 | .583 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DePaul | 8 | – | 10 | .444 | 13 | – | 19 | .406 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Providence | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 13 | – | 19 | .406 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. John's | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | 16 | – | 15 | .516 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Butler | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | 16 | – | 18 | .471 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgetown | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 12 | – | 19 | .387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 1 | – | 17 | .056 | 7 | – | 24 | .226 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2025 Big East tournament winner Rankings from AP poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2024–25 UConn Huskies women's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut (UConn) during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, winning the national championship. The Huskies were led by Hall of Fame head coach Geno Auriemma in his 40th season at UConn, and split their home games between Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on their campus in Storrs, Connecticut, and the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. UConn is a member of the Big East Conference, which it rejoined in the 2020–21 season; it had been a member of the original Big East Conference from 1979 through 2013, and one of the original women's basketball teams in that conference in 1982.
After losing two graduates to the WNBA, UConn entered the season ranked #2 in the AP and Coaches polls, returning two-time All American Paige Bueckers and several other players previously redshirted for injury, with some still unavailable at the season's start. The Huskies added a solid recruiting class, including #1 ranked recruit Sarah Strong, and also picked up Princeton graduate Kaitlyn Chen from the transfer portal.
An early season win against Fairleigh Dickinson was Auriemma's 2017th career victory, making him the winningest head coach in NCAA history. The Huskies won early non-conference games against North Carolina, Ole Miss, and Louisville, while losing against ranked Notre Dame, USC, and Tennessee. In a much anticipated February game of ranked opponents, UConn shocked home team and defending national champion South Carolina, 87–58. The Huskies continued to dominate Big East conference play, going undefeated for the second consecutive season and winning the Big East tournament. In the 2025 NCAA Division I tournament, UConn was seeded second in their regional and won their way to the national title match, defeating opponents by an average of 34 points per game. In the tournament finals, a rematch against South Carolina, the Huskies defeated the Gamecocks, 82–59, to win their 12th national championship. UConn finished the season with a record of 37–3.