Amazing stat of the week

The University of Connecticut women’s basketball squad capped an undefeated season with a 76-54 win over Louisville in the NCAA women’s tournament championship game on Tuesday.

The Huskies finished the season 39-0, and that’s not even the amazing part.

UConn won all 39 games by double digits.

The Huskies are the 12th team in the history of Division I basketball — men or women — to finish undefeated, according to ncaa.com, but the first to finish the season with double-digit wins in every game.

UConn is the first undefeated Division I team since the Indiana Hoosiers men’s squad gave Bob Knight his first title in 1976, and with a 32-0 mark, Indiana was the last of seven DI men’s teams to go undefeated.

Hall of Famer Bill Russell led San Francisco to a 29-0 record in 1956, North Carolina was 32-0 in 1957 and John Wooden led four teams (1964, 1967, 1972, 1972) to 30-0 marks.

The Huskies are the fifth women’s team and third from UConn to finish the season without a loss, and the first since the 2002 UConn squad to go undefeated. That team included a redshirt freshman named Jessica Moore.

— Jeremiah Bartz