A star-studded roster of alumni are set to return to Storrs when the UConn women’s basketball team celebrates the 10-year anniversary of its 2015 and ’16 NCAA Championship teams.
The teams that completed the program’s iconic run of four consecutive national titles will be inducted into the Huskies of Honor ahead of UConn’s game against Villanova at Gampel Pavilion on Jan. 15. The 2013 and ’14 championship teams were added to the wall in January2024. No team in women’s college basketball has won consecutive titles since the Huskies’ four-peat.
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The program confirmed nine former players will be in the building for the celebration, headlined by two-time WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart. Stewart was the most outstanding player of all four championship teams from 2013-16 and graduated from UConn as one of the most decorated players in the history of college basketball. She won the Naismith Trophy three times and was the unanimous national player of the year in 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, a seven-time All-Star and a six-time All-WNBA first-team selection.
Stewart’s classmates Moriah Jefferson and Morgan 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 best point guard, and Tuck earned her first All-American honors as a senior in 2016. Tuck retired from professional basketball in 2020 and now serves as the general manager of the Connecticut Sun. Jefferson has struggled with injuries during her WNBA career but appeared in five games with the Chicago Sky in 2025.
Four other active WNBA players are set to attend the celebration. Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier, the 2024 and 2025 MVP runner-up, was a freshman on the 2016 championship team alongside classmate Katie Lou Samuelson, who missed the 2025 WNBA season due to an ACL tear. Collier and Samuelson had more limited roles in 2016 but went on to have legendary careers at UConn, and both are still top 10 on the program’s all-time scoring list. Chicago Sky guard Kia Nurse, who was on both title teams, will also be in the building, as will three-time WNBA champion Kiah Stokes representing the 2015 squad.
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Confirmed Returning Athletes:
Napheesa Collier (2016)
Moriah Jefferson (2015, ’16)
Tierney Lawlor (2015)
Kia Nurse (2015, ’16)
Briana Pulido (2015, ‘16)
Katie Lou Samuelson (2016)
Breanna Stewart (2015, ’16)
Kiah Stokes (2015)
Morgan Tuck (2015, ’16)
