WACO, Texas -- Geno Auriemma knew that top-ranked UConn couldn't keep winning every regular-season game it played, even though the Huskies had won 126 in a row.

That winning streak of more than four years ended with a 68-57 loss Thursday night at No. 8 Baylor, which won against a No. 1 team for the first time.

"What is disappointing for me, not that we lost. How long did you think you were going to win every game in the regular season, 10 years?'' Auriemma said. "So I'm not surprised that we lost, but it was disappointing that we struggled so much on the offensive end.''

The Huskies (11-1) hadn't lost a regular-season game in regulation since a 76-70 home loss to Baylor in a Nos. 1 vs. 2 matchup on Feb. 18, 2013 -- a span of 163 games. Their only regular-season loss since then was 88-86 in overtime at Stanford on Nov. 14, 2014.

"Stanford in 2014. Think about that,'' Auriemma said.

The 11-time national champion Huskies shot only 29 percent (20-of-68) with their lowest point total this season. Their only lead came at 2-0 when Crystal Dangerfield scored in the opening minute of the game.

Kalani Brown had 20 points and 17 rebounds for the Lady Bears (10-1).

UConn is the only No. 1 team Baylor has ever faced in 19 seasons under coach Kim Mulkey, who has two national championships coaching the Lady Bears. They had lost each of the previous three such meetings, including UConn's last visit to Waco nearly five years ago.

"Connecticut gets everybody's best shot. They don't lose much, we don't lose much,'' Mulkey said. "When you can do it year after year after year, taking people's best shots and you have a shot to play each other, it's good for women's basketball.''

Chloe Jackson added 13 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds for Baylor, and NaLyssa Smith had 12 points. Juicy Landrum scored 11 points and Lauren Cox had nine points and seven rebounds.

Napheesa Collier had 16 points and 11 rebounds for UConn, and Katie Lou Samuelson also had a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. But the two seniors were a combined 8-of-34 shooting. Dangerfield had 11 points and Megan Walker 10.

"It just felt like everyone was kind of stagnant out there. We were all just looking at each other,'' said Samuelson, who missed her first six shots and finished 4-of-16. "We weren't hitting those difficult shots, and sometimes we do, but we don't always. When we're not getting shots in our offense, we shoot worse than we normally do. That's on us to be able to figure that out.''

BIG PICTURE

UConn: Auriemma's team was coming off tough wins at Oklahoma and California, and after both games the coach talked about those kinds of games were how the majority of the world lives. This time, they couldn't pull off a late comeback. The last time UConn had consecutive losses was in 1993 -- a span of 937 games going into its conference opener.

Baylor: The Lady Bears have won 28 consecutive home games and extended their nonconference home winning streak to 45 games since a home loss to UConn on Jan. 13, 2014.

IN AND OUT OF THE PAINT

Baylor outscored UConn 52-10 in the paint. "Are you surprised that they scored 52 points in the paint,'' Auriemma said. "I would think they would suck if they didn't score 52 points in the paint. They've got every one of our guys by six inches, so we knew that was going to happen, and we were OK with that. What we weren't OK with was how hard it was for us to get the shots that we wanted. And then when we did get the shots that we wanted, we didn't make any of them.''

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UConn, which hasn't lost an American Athletic Conference game in five full seasons in the league, opens conference play Sunday at Houston.

Baylor, which last season won its ninth Big 12 title, opens conference play Sunday at Texas Tech.</s>Top-ranked UConn women lose to No. 8 Baylor 68-57, ending regular-season winning streak at 126 games

WACO, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked UConn women lose to No. 8 Baylor 68-57, ending regular-season winning streak at 126 games.</s>WACO, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked UConn women lose to No. 8 Baylor 68-57, ending regular-season winning streak at 126 games.</s>By The Associated Press

WACO, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked UConn women lose to No. 8 Baylor 68-57, ending regular-season winning streak at 126 games.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked UConn women lose to No. 8 Baylor 68-57, ending regular-season winning streak at 126 games.

Copyright © 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.</s>WACO, Texas — Kalani Brown had 20 points and 17 rebounds as No. 8 Baylor won over a top-ranked team for the first time, beating UConn 68-57 Thursday night and handing the Huskies their first regular-season loss in more than four years.

The Huskies (11-1) hadn't lost a regular-season game in regulation since a 76-70 home loss to Baylor in a Nos. 1 vs. 2 matchup on Feb. 18, 2013 — a span of 163 games. Their only regular-season loss since then was 88-86 in overtime at Stanford on Nov. 14, 2014. They had won 126 consecutive regular-season games, 58 of them non-conference matchups.

UConn is the only No. 1 team Baylor has ever faced in coach Kim Mulkey's 19 seasons. The Lady Bears had lost each of the previous three such meetings, including UConn's last visit to Waco nearly five years ago.

The Huskies had their only lead at 2-0 when Crystal Dangerfield scored in the opening minute of the game.

Chloe Jackson added 13 points, eight assists and seven rebounds for Baylor (10-1), while NaLyssa Smith had 12 points. Juicy Landrum scored 11 points while Lauren Cox added nine points and seven rebounds.

Napheesa Collier had 16 points and 11 rebounds for UConn, while Katie Lou Samuelson also had a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. But the two seniors were a combined eight-of-34 shooting. Dangerfield had 11 points and Megan Walker 10.

UConn: Geno Auriemma's team was coming off tough wins at Oklahoma and California, and after both games the coach talked about those kinds of games were how the majority of the world lives. This time, they couldn't pull off a late comeback. The Huskies shot only 29 percent (20 of 68) and had their season low in points.

Baylor: The Lady Bears have won 28 consecutive home games, and extended their non-conference home winning streak to 45 games since a home loss to UConn on Jan. 13, 2014</s>The Western Journal has not reviewed this Associated Press story prior to publication. Therefore, it may contain editorial bias or may in some other way not meet our normal editorial standards. It is provided to our readers as a service from The Western Journal.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Top-ranked UConn women lose to No. 8 Baylor 68-57, ending regular-season winning streak at 126 games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.</s>The folks at Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas were treated to a rarity on Thursday night, watching the visiting UConn women’s basketball team suffer their first regular season loss in over four years, falling to No. 8 Baylor, 68-57.

Kalani Brown led the Bears with 20 points and 17 rebounds, delivering the first-ever win for Baylor over a No. 1 team.

The standard of excellence UConn has achieved in women’s basketball means that any loss by Gino Auriemma’s squad is newsworthy. Thursday marked the first regular season loss for UConn since Nov. 17, 2014, snapping a string of 126 consecutive regular season wins.

That loss at Stanford five seasons ago, was in overtime, which was the only way to beat UConn in recent times. Here are all of UConn’s losses since the start of the 2013-2014 season, before Thursday:

That’s three total losses in five-plus seasons, with 199 wins heading into Thursday night. The last time UConn lost in regulation was Feb. 18, 2013, with 163 regulation wins in between. That loss nearly five years ago was also against Baylor.

The loss also snapped a 58-game non-conference win streak for UConn, dating back to 2014.

Baylor held UConn to just 29.4% shooting on Thursday, improving to 10-1 on the season. Baylor has a streak of their own still intact, now with 28 straight home wins.</s>STORRS (WFSB) - The UConn Women's basketball team has suffered their first regular-season loss in over four years.

The Huskies lost Thursday night to Baylor in Texas in a stunning 68-57 upset.

This is the first lost for coach Geno Auriemma and the team since November of 2014 when they lost in overtime to Stanford.

The Huskies struggle most of the game, only holding the lead in the opening minute.

Prior to that they had won 126 straight regular-season games, including 58 non-conference matchups.

Meanwhile Baylor has won 28 straight games at home.

Next up for UConn, a game Sunday in Houston at Texas Tech.</s>The Connecticut women’s basketball team has not won a national title since 2016, which is weird enough. But to see the Huskies lose in the regular season is downright nutty, and that’s exactly what happened Thursday night when eighth-ranked Baylor scored a 68-57 home win over top-ranked U-Conn., snapping its streak of 126 straight regular season victories.

The Huskies’ last loss between November and March took place on Nov. 17, 2014, when they lost in overtime to Stanford. They hadn’t lost a regular season game in regulation since a loss to the defending national champion Lady Bears on Feb. 18, 2013. They hadn’t lost a regular season game by double digits since Barack Obama’s first term as president, a 13-point defeat to Notre Dame on Feb. 27, 2012.

So yeah, taking down Geno Aueriemma’s team is a pretty big deal, even if Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey tried to claim it was just another game on the schedule.

“Listen, we’re all chasing Geno, let’s be real,” Mulkey, who has two national titles to Auriemma’s 11, said after the game. “I didn’t know it was a first. I don’t coach like that. I just want to win the next game.”

Flustered by Baylor’s length — especially 6-foot-7 Kalani Brown (22 points, 17 rebounds) — the Huskies shot just 29.4 percent (20 of 68), which ESPNW’s Mechelle Voepel says is their worst outing in the past 20 seasons. They made just 9 of 36 shots from two-point range. U-Conn. Katie Lou Samuelson, the two-time all-American who came in averaging 20.1 points per game, had only 12 points on 4-of-16 shooting.

Auriemma said the loss simply showed how difficult it is to compile the streaks for which his program is renowned.

“I think some people sometimes get this impression that at U-Conn. we have magic dust and our kids are all perfect players and all great students and they all shoot great and it’s just a matter of how much we’re going to win by,” Auriemma said, per the Hartford Courant. “It’s taken for granted, I think. When you realize how hard it is, you would appreciate even more what we’ve done. It’s not as easy as we make it look at times. You’re allowed to get beat once in a while. What fun would it be if you won all the time? It would be an exhibition. We could save the plane fare. We could call you up, ask you what you wanted the score to be, and we could stay home. If you show up, you have to be ready to accept losing. We don’t lose a lot.”

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The UConn women’s basketball team ended its 126-game regular season winning streak of more than four years Thursday as the 11-time national champion Huskies suffered a 68-57 loss to the Baylor University Bears in Waco, Texas.

The No. 1 Huskies had not lost a regular season game since an 88-86 overtime loss at Stanford in 2014.

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“What is disappointing for me, not that we lost. How long did you think you were going to win every game in the regular season, 10 years?,” said Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma. “So I’m not surprised that we lost, but it was disappointing that we struggled so much on the offensive end.”

For the No. 8 Bears, it was the first time they faced a No. 1 team in 19 seasons under coach Kim Mulkey. The team lost each of the three such meetings, including when UConn visited Waco five years ago.

"Connecticut gets everybody's best shot. They don't lose much, we don't lose much," Mulkey said. "When you can do it year after year after year, taking people's best shots and you have a shot to play each other, it's good for women's basketball."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
In women's college basketball, Baylor defeats top-ranked Connecticut 68–57, handing the Huskies their first regular-season loss since November 2014 and ending their NCAA-record regular-season winning streak at 126 games.