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A few things to watch at the women’s championship game

Connecticut's Breanna Stewart (30) comes out of the game late in the second half of a national semifinal game against Oregon State, at the women's Final Four in the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Indianapolis. Connecticut won 80-51. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
Connecticut's Breanna Stewart (30) comes out of the game late in the second half of a national semifinal game against Oregon State, at the women's Final Four in the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Indianapolis. Connecticut won 80-51. (AP Photo/AJ Mast) Connecticut's Breanna Stewart (30) comes out of the game late in the second half of a national semifinal game against Oregon State, at the women's Final Four in the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Indianapolis. Connecticut won 80-51. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Some things to watch for Tuesday night when UConn meets Syracuse for the national championship:

FOUR-PEAT

The Huskies have a really good chance to win a fourth consecutive title, a feat never done before in women’s basketball. UConn won three straight titles from 2002-04 and Tennessee did it from 1996-98. If UConn does pull off the victory, Geno Auriemma will win his 11th championship, moving him past UCLA men’s coach John Wooden for the most in the history of college basketball.

“I’m not going to go and say that we’re going to lose,” Breanna Stewart said. “To end my college career, to end it with the other seniors, there is no other way that I want that to happen.”

Wooden won seven of his 10 titles in a row at UCLA from 1967-73.