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1977 – present
The program's totals: Through 2025–26, forty-nine varsity seasons: 1,154 wins, 400 losses, a .743 winning percentage. The coaching line, from the university's all-time table: Sharon Petro, 1977–80, 49–20. Mary DiStanislao, 1980–87, 115–79. Muffet McGraw, 1987–2020, 848–252 (936–293 in her full career, counting Lehigh). Niele Ivey, 2020–present, 142–49, in her seventh season in 2026–27.
The national accounting: Two NCAA championships — 2001 and 2018. Seven championship games: the two wins and runner-up finishes in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2019. Nine Final Fours: 1997, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 — five of them consecutive, 2011–2015. Eleven Elite Eights and twenty-two Sweet Sixteens. Thirty-one NCAA tournament appearances — 1992, 1994, then twenty-four consecutive from 1996 through 2019, then five consecutive from 2022 through 2026 — with an all-time tournament record of 78–29. Before the NCAA era's door opened, four NWIT appearances: 1986, 1989, 1991, 1995.
The conference accounting: Thirty conference championships, as the record book's cover line counts them, in two kinds. Regular-season (eighteen): North Star 1985, 1986; Midwestern Collegiate 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995; Big East 2001 (shared), 2012, 2013; ACC 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, and 2025 (shared). Tournament (twelve): Midwestern Collegiate 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994; Big East 2013; ACC 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2024.
The polls accounting: Seventeen weeks at No. 1 in the Associated Press poll — six in 2000–01, four in 2016–17, six in 2018–19 and one in 2024–25. The first ranking, December 31, 1990, at No. 25; the longest unbroken run, 234 consecutive weeks from November 4, 2007, to November 18, 2019. The record book's cover accounting also carries twenty-eight All-Americans in the program's history.
Sources:
- University record book (2025–26 edition) — the program and coaching totals; the NCAA tournament history and its 78–29 aggregate; the conference championship lists; the polls history; the cover accounting (thirty conference championships; twenty-eight All-Americans).