What if?

What if UConn had won?

Real result: Mississippi State beat UConn 66–64 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by December 3, 2017, 247 days later.

The alternate belt: Notre Dame

What if UConn had won?

Real result: Stanford beat UConn 71–59 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 5, 2011, 96 days later, after 1 reign that never happened.

The alternate belt: Notre Dame

What if UConn had won?

Real result: Stanford beat UConn 88–86 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 7, 2015, 141 days later.

The alternate belt: Mississippi State

What if UConn had won?

Real result: South Carolina beat UConn 62–48 · the game

The belt never finds its way back. Today it would belong to UConn, not UCLA.

What if South Carolina had won?

Real result: Iowa beat South Carolina 77–73 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by March 31, 2024, 366 days later.

The alternate belt: UCLA

What if Baylor had won?

Real result: South Carolina beat Baylor 74–59 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 2, 2021, 489 days later, after 9 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: Iowa State → South Dakota State → Kansas State → Iowa State → Texas → West Virginia → Oklahoma → Baylor → UConn

What if UConn had won?

Real result: Villanova beat UConn 52–48 · the game

History snaps back fast: the belt is back on its real path by April 8, 2003, 28 days later.

The alternate belt: Duke

What if UConn had won?

Real result: Notre Dame beat UConn 91–89 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by December 2, 2018, 247 days later.

The alternate belt: Baylor

What if UConn had won?

Real result: South Carolina beat UConn 64–49 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 2, 2023, 364 days later, after 7 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: Notre Dame → North Carolina → Louisville → Notre Dame → Louisville → Virginia Tech → LSU

What if Iowa had won?

Real result: LSU beat Iowa 102–85 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 7, 2024, 371 days later, after 4 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: Kansas State → Iowa → Ohio State → Iowa

What if Notre Dame had won?

Real result: Oregon State beat Notre Dame 70–65 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 6, 2025, 373 days later, after 4 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: TCU → South Carolina → Texas → South Carolina

What if Oregon State had won?

Real result: South Carolina beat Oregon State 70–58 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 5, 2026, 735 days later, after 19 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: Colorado State → BYU → Northern Colorado → Lamar → SE Louisiana → Texas A&M-Corpus Christi → Lamar → Northern Colorado → Denver → UTEP → TCU → Utah

What if UCLA had won?

Real result: UConn beat UCLA 85–51 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 5, 2026, 366 days later, after 10 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: Texas → LSU → Texas → Vanderbilt → Georgia → Oklahoma → LSU → South Carolina → Texas → UCLA

What if South Carolina had won?

Real result: UCLA beat South Carolina 79–51 · the game

The belt never finds its way back. Today it would belong to South Carolina, not UCLA.

What if South Carolina had won?

Real result: UCLA beat South Carolina 77–62 · the game

It takes a while: the belt is back on its real path by April 6, 2025, 133 days later, after 2 reigns that never happened.

The alternate belt: Texas → South Carolina

What if UCLA had won?

Real result: USC beat UCLA 71–60 · the game

History snaps back fast: the belt is back on its real path by March 1, 2025, 16 days later.

The alternate belt: USC

What if USC had won?

Real result: UCLA beat USC 72–67 · the game

History snaps back fast: the belt is back on its real path by April 4, 2025, 26 days later, after 1 reign that never happened.

The alternate belt: UConn