Chasing Perfection: A UConn WBB Podcast

On the 100th episode of Chasing Perfection, we begin our preview of the 2023-24 season. We discuss what we learned from the four games in Europe, look at the schedule and which big games intrigue us most, and give our early predictions for the upcoming...

UConn women’s basketball looked like it had a budding star on its hands as Jana El Alfy dominated competition at the U19 World Cup. Then in her final game, she went down with an injury, later diagnosed as a ruptured Achilles that will keep her out for ...

UConn women’s basketball’s 2023-24 non-conference schedule is coming together. The Huskies will travel to the Caribbean for the Cayman Islands Classic and added a game with Ball State so the Mühl sisters could face off. We discuss those matchups as wel...

UConn’s season is somehow over. The Huskies fell in the Sweet Sixteen to Ohio State, their earliest exit since 2005. On the final episode of the regular season, we break down what went wrong in the defeat, look at why UConn couldn’t beat the press, how...

UConn women’s basketball took care of business in its first two NCAA Tournament games with wins over Vermont and Baylor to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. The Huskies continued their high level of play from the Big East Tournament but earned victories in...

The NCAA Tournament has finally arrived. After a long, often difficult regular season, UConn can turn its full attention to winning just six games — and with it, another national championship. On this week’s episode, we preview the Huskies’ first and s...

UConn entered the postseason looking vulnerable and came out of the Big East Tournament looking dangerous as ever. The Huskies blasted the competition in their three games to lift the trophy and look like the team they did before the February slide. On...

UConn didn’t exactly close out the regular season on a high note. The Huskies scraped by DePaul and then only beat a Xavier team that didn’t win a Big East game by nine points, prompting Geno Auriemma to go off on his team postgame. On this week’s epis...

UConn women’s basketball is hitting a rough patch at the worst possible time. The Huskies have just two games left in the regular season, yet more questions persist about the team than ever before after they fell to St. John’s on Tuesday. On this week’...

UConn women’s basketball lost consecutive games for the first time since 1993 this past week, falling to South Carolina and Marquette. On this episode, we discuss whether or not that changes our view of the Huskies and how that affects their outlook th...

UConn women’s basketball played a closer-than-expected game against South Carolina and largely held its own. However, the Huskies lost, so does anything else really matter? We discuss that and more on this week’s episode. This is a public episode. If y...

UConn women’s basketball’s lack of depth and brutal recent schedule almost caught up to it this past weekend. Almost. The Huskies narrowly escaped a second straight upset at the XL Center by Villanova thanks to one of their most impressive wins of the ...

Aaliyah Edwards kicked off the most important stretch of UConn’s regular season with a standout performance against Aneesah Morrow and DePaul, but now has two big games looming with Tennessee and Villanova. On this week’s episode, we break down the jun...

UConn women’s basketball played two games this week and its respective performances were on opposite ends of the spectrum: The Huskies were flat against Georgetown but put together one of their best efforts of the season against Seton Hall. We discuss ...

On this week’s episode, we take listener questions while discussing UConn women’s basketball’s past week. We talk about the Huskies’ potential ceiling, give our picks for who might succeed Geno Auriemma one day, look ahead to St. John’s and more. This ...

UConn women’s basketball is starting to figure out life without Azzi Fudd. The Huskies returned from the holiday break with a resounding win over Creighton and followed it up with a mostly comfortable victory against Marquette. On this week’s episode, ...

UConn women’s basketball will go into the holiday break happy after wins over Florida State and Seton Hall. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Huskies’ performance, the return of Dorka Juhász, how the team is starting to figure out how to play with...

UConn’s already strange season turned even more bizarre this past week with a tight win over Princeton that added to the already-heavy injury toll and featured one of the more remarkable finishes that we’ve ever seen. The shorthanded Huskies also fell ...

UConn women’s basketball still can’t catch a break on the injury front. On Tuesday, the team announced Azzi Fudd will miss 3-6 weeks with a knee injury suffered in the loss to Notre Dame. This week, we discuss the implications of Fudd’s absence, who ne...

UConn women’s basketball is 5-0 on the season after taking down Duke and Iowa to win the Phil Knight Legacy in Portland over Thanksgiving weekend. On this week’s episode, we break down the wins, discuss the team’s impressive resilience, look at Azzi Fu...

UConn women’s basketball is through its first week. The Huskies are 2-0 after beating Northeastern in the opener followed by a big win over No. 3 Texas. On this week’s episode, we break down the victories, discuss Azzi Fudd’s rapid ascent to stardom (a...

The season has finally arrived! On this week’s episode, we make our predictions for UConn’s 2022-23 campaign — such as the leading scorer, number of All-Americans and whether or not the Huskies will make it back to the final four. Along with that, we d...

This week, UConn women’s basketball will play a real game — an exhibition — but a real game nonetheless against Kutztown at the XL Center. So what should we expect from the Huskies? Well, they’ll be without freshman Ice Brady for the entire season afte...

The days left in UConn women’s basketball’s offseason are numbered. The Huskies have just a few weeks left until they open the season and the outlook for the team is starting to become clear. On this week’s episode, we discuss Geno Auriemma’s surprisin...

With the fall semester starting last week, the season feels like it’s almost here. The entire team is back on campus, workouts are re-starting and there’s a little less than two months to go until UConn’s first exhibition. On this week’s episode, we ta...