Chasing Perfection: A UConn WBB Podcast
Episodes
UConn cruises to another top-25 win over Iowa (Ep. 156)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball kept rolling on Saturday, taking care of business against No. 11 Iowa with a 90-64 victory in the Champions Classic at Barc...
UConn crushes USC, is Iowa next? (Ep. 155)
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn traveled to coast-to-coast for what seemed primed to be a tough test against USC, only to come out with a blowout victory. The Huskies put toget...
Getting different perspectives on UConn (Ep. 154)
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, CT Insider’s Maggie Vanoni and the Hartford Courant’s Emily Adams join the show and provide a fresh perspective on the Huskies. We get ...
What to make of UConn's close win over Michigan (Ep. 153)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following UConn’s 72-69 win over No. 6 Michigan where it nearly fumbled away a 20-point second half lead, we ask some big questions about the team: ...
Will UConn face its toughest test of the season against Michigan? (Ep. 152)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After dismantling Ohio State on Sunday, UConn women’s basketball turns its attention to the first top-10 matchup of its season with No. 6 Michigan. ...
UConn looks as good as advertised through three games (Ep. 151)
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Through UConn’s first three games, there haven’t been any major surprises. Sarah Strong and Azzi Fudd have led the way, the depth is apparent and ...
Can anyone stop UConn from repeating as national champions? (Ep. 150)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A long offseason is over and UConn women’s basketball’s 2025-26 campaign is finally upon us. With the Huskies set to kick off the season on Tuesda...
Taking stock of UConn's preseason (Ep. 149)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Out with the preseason, in with the regular season. UConn women’s basketball closed the book on training camp with a beatdown of Southern Connecticu...
Early impressions from UConn's exhibition (Ep. 148)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn has one exhibition down and another to go before the regular season begins. For the first time in a long time, there’s plenty of basketball to...
Breaking down UConn's schedule
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s (pre-recorded) episode, we dive into UConn’s full schedule, break down the big games in the non-conference and bemoan the extended ...
First look at the Huskies
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball is back and so is the podcast. On Sunday, the Huskies held an open practice at Sacred Heart, providing the first look at th...
UConn loads up in the portal (again) (Ep. 145)
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn filled its final roster spot by making one last addition: USC transfer guard Kayleigh Heckel. The Huskies are officially locked and loaded in th...
UConn loads up in the portal (Ep. 144)
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn’s 2025-26 roster got a significant upgrade with the addition of Wisconsin transfer Serah Williams. On this episode, we get into why the Huskie...
Paige Bueckers goes No. 1 overall in WNBA Draft (Ep. 143)
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The WNBA Draft has come and gone while the offseason officially kicked off for UConn this week. We discuss Paige Bueckers going No. 1 overall to the D...
UConn wins long-elusive national championship (Ep. 142)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a nine-year drought, UConn is back on top after winning the 2025 national championship.On this first-ever post-title edition of Chasing Perfecti...
UConn destroys UCLA, moves on to national championship (Ep. 141)
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball is back in the national championship after a 34-point beatdown of UCLA in the national semifinal. On this episode, we break...
Paige Bueckers takes over Spokane (Ep. 140)
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn punched its ticket to the Final Four thanks in part to an all-time performance from Paige Bueckers in the regional rounds. She set a program NCA...
UConn steamrolls through the first two rounds (Ep. 139)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball is through to the Sweet Sixteen after winning its first NCAA Tournament games by a combined 103 points. We dig into the vic...
Is this UConn's year? (Ep. 138)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The NCAA Tournament is here. The bracket is out and UConn knows its path to a 12th national championship. The headline matchup is a potential Elite Ei...
UConn's defense, Bueckers' assertiveness stand out from Big East Tournament (Ep. 137)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn is through the Big East Tournament after winning three games in three days to claim its 30th conference tournament title. During the weekend at ...
Wrapping up the regular season (Ep. 136)
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
March is here. UConn women’s basketball wrapped up its regular season on Sunday and will now turn its attention to the postseason. While there hasn’...
Reacting to UConn's dominant win over South Carolina (Ep. 135)
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball went down to South Carolina and didn’t just come out with a win, it did so in dominant fashion. On this episode, we get i...
Can UConn find the "it" factor at South Carolina? (Ep. 134)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In UConn’s three losses this season, something has been missing — it’s just hard to pin down exactly what that is. That topic is especially rele...
How will UConn fare against new-look Tennessee team? (Ep. 133)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball is finally getting a break from Big East play with a trip to take on old rival Tennessee. While the Huskies should have an ...
Counting the days to March (Ep. 132)
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s 10 games left in UConn’s regular season and there hasn’t been much competition recently. With the Huskies rolling through conference pla...
Even without Paige Bueckers, UConn starting to find its groove (Ep. 131)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball survived a major injury scare when Paige Bueckers came out of an awkward collision with only a knee sprain. Since then, the...
What to make of UConn after the loss to USC (Ep. 130)
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coming off a loss to No. 7 USC on Saturday night, UConn remains an enigma. The Huskies were terrible in the first half but turned it around and nearly...
UConn remains a work in progress (Ep. 130)
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn followed up its best performance of the season against Louisville with a step back in a loss at Notre Dame. The Huskies no longer looked like an...
Gauging UConn's true potential (Ep. 129)
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn is coming off its best performance of the season with a 33-point thrashing of No. 22 Louisville, but it also has to deal with the (temporary) lo...
Where UConn stands ahead of a defining stretch (Ep. 128)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball has finished the tune-up portion of its schedule and now gets into a defining stretch that features four ranked opponents o...
Azzi Fudd is back (Ep. 127)
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been an eventful week for the Huskies. Geno Auriemma became the all-time wins leader, Azzi Fudd returned and the team traveled down to The Baha...
History in the making (Ep. 126)
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn is preparing for one of the most anticipated blowouts in the history of college basketball. On Wednesday, Geno Auriemma will become the all-time...
UConn prepares for its first real test (Ep. 125)
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn began its season with two wins over BU and USF, though it’s not like either of those contests were ever going to be close. Now, the Huskies wi...
Season predictions (Ep. 124)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s officially basketball season in Storrs. On Sunday, UConn took the court for the first time with an exhibition and will begin the regular season...
Previewing the exhibition (Ep. 123)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball will play its first contest in front of a crowd this weekend when it takes on Fort Hays State in exhibition action. To prev...
Breaking down the roster (Ep. 122)
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn’s preseason is in full swung. The Huskies held their First Night festivities last week, will head to New York City for Big East Media Day on W...
Starting a new season (Ep. 121)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball’s new season is getting close. The AP Preseason Poll came out on Tuesday, First Night is set for Friday and the first gam...
Iowa recap, offseason preview (Ep. 120)
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With a month to process everything, we look back at UConn’s Final Four loss to Iowa, explain why we’re not all that upset and discuss the controve...
Final Four preview (Ep. 119)
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Final Four weekend and UConn women’s basketball is still alive. On this episode, we recap UConn’s Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight victories t...
Ep. 118: Survive and advance to the Sweet Sixteen
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 117: Breaking down the bracket
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The NCAA Tournament is here. On Selection Sunday, UConn found out its path to the Final Four and a 12th national title. On this week’s episode, we d...
Ep. 116: The Ice Brady breakout
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn won the Big East Tournament in dominant fashion, but it did so in an unexpected way. After Aaliyah Edwards suffered a broken nose in the quarter...
Ep. 115: Finally March
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Paige Bueckers is back (Ep. 114)
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn’s 2024-25 roster got a big boost with Paige Bueckers and Aubrey Griffin announcing their return during senior night. On this episode, we break...
Aaliyah Edwards is hitting a new level (Ep. 113)
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn has bounced back from its last loss with three straight wins on the back of standout performances from Aaliyah Edwards. On this week’s episode...
Notre Dame loss shows just how thin UConn's margins are (Ep. 112)
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball’s 13-game winning streak came to an end at the hands of Notre Dame on Saturday. Nika Mühl spent most of the night in fou...
Paige Bueckers keeps getting better (Ep. 111)
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paige Bueckers is playing her best basketball of the season on both ends of the floor, and UConn just keeps winning. This week, we talk about why Buec...
Ice, Ice Brady (Ep. 110)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball has continued its roll through conference play and is finally getting contributions from Ice Brady. We break down what’s ...
Can UConn survive another injury? (Ep. 109)
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball has already been hammered by injuries and it’s gotten even worse with Aubrey Griffin going down with a non-contact knee i...
UConn heads into the holidays on a high note (Ep. 108)
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball is officially into the holiday break after winning three games in five days across two different countries. The Huskies pla...
UConn shows tangible progress vs. UNC (Ep. 108)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn came away with a lot to be happy with after beating North Carolina on Sunday at Mohegan Sun. The Huskies won, but they also showed more progress...
Has UConn reached a breaking point? (Ep. 107)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball’s in a bad way right now. The Huskies dropped their third game of the season to Texas, fell to their lowest ranking in th...
UConn hits the reset button (Ep. 106)
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball is starting over. After losing Azzi Fudd for the rest of the season to a torn ACL and Caroline Ducharme missing both games ...
How will UConn move forward without Azzi Fudd? (Ep. 105)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Azzi Fudd is out for the rest of the season after tearing her ACL, so UConn will once again have to chart a course forward without a top player. On th...
Is it too early to be worried about UConn? (Ep. 104)
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball ended up on the wrong end of an upset at NC State on Sunday. Not much went well for the Huskies and now that they’ve retu...
What will Paige Bueckers return look like? (Ep. 103)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s officially a game week. On Wednesday, UConn kicks off the season against Dayton at the XL Center, marking the end to a long offseason. On this ...
UConn plays a real basketball game this weekend (Ep. 102)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The offseason is almost over. On Saturday, UConn women’s basketball will take the court for its first real game action in an exhibition contest agai...
The season's almost here (Ep. 101)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball’s season is just around the corner. The Huskies held First Night on Friday, the preseason awards and polls are starting t...
UConn begins official practice (Ep. 100)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Another year, another season-ending injury (Ep. 99)
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fina...
UConn's non-conference schedule coming into focus (Ep. 98)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball’s 2023-24 non-conference schedule is coming together. The Huskies will travel to the Caribbean for the Cayman Islands Cla...
A bitter end (Ep. 97)
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 reg...
UConn thrives and advances to the Sweet Sixteen (Ep. 96)
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sixt...
Breaking down UConn's path to the Final Four (Ep. 95)
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The NCAA Tournament has finally arrived. After a long, often difficult regular season, UConn can turn its full attention to winning just six games —...
Watch out, UConn is back (Ep. 94)
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn entered the postseason looking vulnerable and came out of the Big East Tournament looking dangerous as ever. The Huskies blasted the competition...
March is here (Ep. 93)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Is it time to be worried about UConn? (Ep. 92)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 q...
Streaks die, the stretch run begins (Ep. 92)
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball lost consecutive games for the first time since 1993 this past week, falling to South Carolina and Marquette. On this episo...
Do moral victories exist for UConn?
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball played a closer-than-expected game against South Carolina and largely held its own. However, the Huskies lost, so does anyt...
Fatigue (almost) catches up to UConn (Ep. 90)
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
All-American Aaliyah Edwards (Ep. 89)
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aaliyah Edwards kicked off the most important stretch of UConn’s regular season with a standout performance against Aneesah Morrow and DePaul, but n...
Groundhog Day for UConn (Ep. 88)
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UConn women’s basketball played two games this week and its respective performances were on opposite ends of the spectrum: The Huskies were flat aga...
What's UConn's ceiling? (Ep. 87)
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we take listener questions while discussing UConn women’s basketball’s past week. We talk about the Huskies’ potential...
Pieces starting to fall into place for UConn (Ep. 86)
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cr...
Heading into the holidays on a high note (Ep. 85)
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
UConn's most far-fetched week yet (Ep. 84)
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
The hits keep coming (Ep. 83)
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Another trophy added to the collection (Ep. 82)
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. O...
The Azzi Fudd Era begins (Ep. 81)
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Te...
The season predictions show (Ep. 80)
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, numbe...
The first (exhibition) game week of the season (Ep. 79)
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
The offseason is nearly over (Ep. 78)
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 outl...
Bueckers is back; UConn makes a late addition (Ep. 77)
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Emergency Podcast: Paige Bueckers is out for the year with a torn ACL
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, UConn announced that Paige Bueckers will miss the entire 2022-23 season after tearing her ACL in a pickup game. We convened an emergency...
UConn's non-conference schedule, recruiting news and bandwagons (Ep. 76)
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we found some time between our summer travels to record a new episode. We discuss UConn’s non-conference schedule and explain why it’s ...
Did UConn add enough to its roster this offseason? (Ep. 75)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The busiest part of UConn women’s basketball’s offseason is nearly over. The Huskies will soon wrap up summer workouts and any remaining news shou...
First starting lineup predictions (Ep. 74)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a quiet part of the offseason before UConn begins summer workouts, so on this week’s episode, we answered listener questions from Twitter. We...