CLEVELAND — Make it a perfect 10.
South Carolina beat Iowa on Sunday to join the “perfect” club in Division I women’s college basketball.
With their 38-0 season completed in Cleveland, the Gamecocks became the 10th team and fifth women’s program to go unbeaten since the NCAA began governing women’s sports in 1981-82. UConn has produced six perfect teams, and Baylor, Tennessee and Texas have each had one unbeaten season.
Trying to rank the undefeated teams in women’s NCAA basketball history is tough because, after all, perfect is perfect. You can’t do better than that.
Still, let’s look at how the Gamecocks stack up against their perfect counterparts in the NCAA era.
10. 2013-14 UConn Huskies (40-0)
One of these fantastic teams has to be last. And with six UConn teams on the list, it’s like splitting hairs to distinguish between several of them. This Breanna Stewart-led UConn team won the most games of any of the perfect UConn squads. But the Huskies weren’t the only perfect team that season until the very last day. Notre Dame also were unbeaten until…
