Upsets have been a key storyline so far this season, and we’re bound to see a lot more. But Sunday, we saw something not seen in 19 years.
UConn, Tennessee and Stanford, the most iconic programs in women’s college basketball, have a combined 22 NCAA titles and 55 trips to the Final Four. Sunday, for the first time since Dec. 29, 2004, all three teams lost on the same day. The Huskies and Cardinal dropped in the ESPN Power Rankings, while the Lady Vols might be concerned about dropping out of the Associated Press Top 25.
UConn is now 4-3 and already fell from the AP top 10 last week. The Huskies are still in our Power Rankings top 10 — barely — because we’re giving a lot of weight to the fact that the three teams they’ve lost to are all currently in our top five.
Texas is the latest to beat UConn; the Longhorns won 80-68 in Austin on Sunday. Like UCLA on Nov. 24, the Longhorns got their first-ever victory over UConn. (NC State, the other team to beat the Huskies this season, got its first win over them since 1998.)
Texas, playing its most challenging…
