UConn women’s basketball dropped its first game of the season on Thursday night as No. 19 Arkansas topped UConn, 90-87. It was Geno Auriemma’s first loss to a team outside of the top-10 since 2012.
The Huskies trailed by 10 going into the final quarter and made a pair of comeback bids, only to come up three points short.
Here’s what went wrong for the Huskies:
Defense disappears
UConn’s defense didn’t just have its worst defensive performance of the season, it had its worst defensive performance in nearly two decades. The last team to reach 90 points in regulation against the Huskies was Notre Dame in the 2001 Final Four.