A star-studded list of alumni are set to return to Storrs when the UConn women’s basketball The team is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its 2015 and 2016 NCAA championship teams.
Teams that completed the program’s iconic run of four consecutive national titles will be inducted into the Honorary Huskies ahead of UConn’s game against Villanova at Gampel Pavilion on Jan. 15. The 2013 and 2014 championship teams were added to the wall in January 2024. No women’s college basketball team has won back-to-back titles since the Huskies’ four-peat.
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The program confirmed that nine former players will be in the building for the celebration, headlined by the two-time WNBA MVP. Breanna Stewart. Stewart was the most outstanding player on all four championship teams from 2013-16 and graduated from UConn as one of the most decorated players in college basketball history. She won the Naismith Trophy three times and was named unanimous national player of the year during her junior and senior seasons.
Stewart was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2016 WNBA Draft by the Seattle Storm and led the franchise to two championships in 2018 and 2020 before signing with the New York Liberty in 2023 and bringing the team its first title in 2024. She is a two-time Finals MVP, seven-time All-Star and six-time All-WNBA first-team selection.
Stewart’s classmates Moriah Jefferson And Morgane Tuck will also return to UConn for the anniversary. Jefferson and Tuck went No. 2 and No. 3 in the 2016 WNBA Draft, becoming the first teammates ever selected with the first three picks. Jefferson was a two-time All-American and two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award given to the nation’s top point guard, and Tuck earned his first All-American honors as a senior in 2016. Tuck retired from professional basketball in 2020 and is now general manager of the Connecticut Sun. Jefferson struggled with injuries during her WNBA career, but appeared in five games with the Chicago Sky in 2025.
Four other active WNBA players are expected to attend the celebration. Minnesota Lynx Star Napheesa Collier2024 and 2025 MVP finalist, was a freshman on the 2016 championship team alongside classmate Katie Lou Samuelsonwho missed the 2025 WNBA season due to a ACL tear. Collier and Samuelson had more limited roles in 2016, but went on to have legendary careers at UConn, and both still sit in the top 10 on the program’s all-time scoring list. Chicago Sky Guard Nurse Kiawho was part of both championship teams, will also be in the building, as will the three-time WNBA champion Kiah Stokes representing the 2015 team.
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Confirmed returning athletes:
Napheesa Collier (2016)
Moriah Jefferson (2015, ’16)
Tierney Lawlor (2015)
Nurse Kia (2015, ’16)
Briana Pulido (2015, ’16)
Katie Lou Samuelson (2016)
Breanna Stewart (2015, ’16)
Kiah Stokes (2015)
Morgan Tuck (2015, ’16)
