Top-seeded UConn women to open NCAAs vs. Prairie View A&M

STORRS, Connecticut -- The path toward potentially achieving perfection and making history for the UConn women has been mapped out.

The defending national champions stand six wins away from securing the fifth unbeaten season in program history, an unprecedented NCAA-record ninth national championship and a team single-season record 40 wins.

The Huskies (34-0) will begin play as the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament Sunday when they face No. 16 seed Prairie View A&M (14-17) in the first round of the Lincoln Regional at Gampel Pavilion (8 p.m.; ESPN).

UConn would then meet eighth-seeded Georgia (20-11) or ninth-seeded St. Joseph's (22-9) in the second round March 25.

"I think in the back of your mind it's inevitable. How do you not think about (making history),'' UConn senior Stefanie Dolson said. "But I think in the moment when the games are going on, you don't think about that.

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