Michael Voepel Mar 10, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women's college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. With a rainbow of confetti on the shoulders of his dark blue jacket, UConn Huskies women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma was in March mode. As his players danced and celebrated around him, he explained the perils of perpetual success. "There's pressure everywhere you turn," Auriemma said after the Huskies' 90-51 victory over Villanova in the Big East tournament final Monday in Uncasville, Connecticut. "It's never as easy as it's sometimes looked." The UConn women have collected conference championships the way the trophy cases of their league counterparts have collected dust. This Big East title was UConn's 31st conference tournament crown and 12th in a row, and it came on the Huskies' 50th consecutive victory.…