2 games, 2 national champions: Our coverage of the women’s perfect title

The UConn women finished off what seemed inevitable, beating Notre Dame to capture the school’s ninth national championship Tuesday night. The Huskies finished the season a perfect 40-0 and will be favored to win the championship again next season.

Here is a full roundup of our coverage from the championship night:

• The game: Here is how Roger Cleaveland saw things from courtside in Nashville.
• The new conference proved to be no factor in the Huskies’ great season.
• PARADE: The state will honor the two UConn national champions Sunday.
• POSTGAME ON CAMPUS: Here is how things went for the second straight championship celebration in Storrs
• VIDEO: The scene on the Storrs campus immediately after the game
• PHOTOS: The Huskies celebrate in Nashville
• FLASHBACKS: See how it all started with video from the 1995 perfect championship run

THE MEN: Click here for a roundup of the men’s championship night

Video gallery

Analysis and the postgame scene in Nashville

The postgame scene from the Storrs campus

Sights and sounds from Nashville

Players reflect

Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis

Stefanie Dolson

Bria Hartley

Breanna Stewart

Stewie’s double success

UConn sophomore Breanna Stewart became only the second player in the history of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament to earn Final Four Most Outstanding Player in her first two seasons and only the fifth player to win it twice. Here is a list of the double winners:

• Cheryl Miller, USC: 1983, 1984
• Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee: 1997, 1998
• Diana Taurasi, UConn: 2003, 2004
• Candace Parker, Tennessee: 2007, 2008
• Breanna Stewart, UConn: 2013, 2014

Unstoppable

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Geno Auriemma breezed past Pat Summitt by winning his record ninth championship. With sensational sophomore Breanna Stewart back at UConn for two more seasons, winning a 10th or 11th title is a real possibility.

That would move Auriemma and Connecticut past UCLA men’s coach John Wooden for the most in all of college basketball.

Auriemma downplayed comparisons to Wooden when the Huskies broke UCLA’s 88-game winning streak a few years ago. They will only resurface again with Auriemma one title behind the Wizard of Westwood.

Like Wooden, Auriemma has made a habit of replacing one superstar with another. First it was Rebecca Lobo, then Diana Taurasi, who won three straight championships from 2002-04. Maya Moore won back-to-back titles, and now there’s Stewart.

The 6-foot-4 wing player, who became only the third sophomore to win Associated Press player of the year honors last weekend, won two titles in her first two years, earning most outstanding player honors at the Final Four both times. She has a chance to be the winningest women’s college player ever.

“Obviously I am going to try and drag it out as long as I can and enjoy this moment,” Stewart said. “But when it is time to get back to business, I’m going to go after No. 3.”