UConn basketball team win 100 straight

The University of Connecticut's women's basketball team have racked up their 100th consecutive victory with a 66-55 win over South Carolina.

Add 100 consecutive wins to the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team's long list of milestones after they scored a 66-55 victory over South Carolina on Monday night.

Getting No.100 was a little tougher than many of the previous 99, which UConn won by an average 38.7 points.

Gabby Williams scored a career-high 26 points and Napheesa Collier added 18 to help the top-ranked Huskies beat No. 6 South Carolina in front of a sellout crowd of 10,167 that included past greats Sue Bird, Maya Moore, Tina Charles and Breanna Stewart, who helped the Huskies to the first 75 wins of this streak.

Remarkably, UConn is still short of the overall college basketball record for consecutive wins.

The Wayland Baptist women's basketball team won 131 straight from 1953-58.

After the game ended, fake hundred dollar bills dropped from the roof of the arena with Auriemma's face on them. The student section spelled out 100.


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