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How NYU women’s basketball quietly became DIII’s No.1 team. No NIL, little attention, just winning

Story byEden LaaseWed, January 21, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC·12 min readNEW YORK — Something sinister happened to the NYU women’s basketball team on March 11, 2023. At least, that’s the rumor. The Violets played Transylvania in the Elite Eight of the DIII tournament, and legend has it that NYU lost. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAmong current players, only senior Caroline Peper knows for sure. Everyone else has only experienced winning.

How NYU women’s basketball quietly became DIII’s No.1 team. No NIL, little attention, just winning

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Key Highlights

  • This mythical, terrifying beast they call “losing” isn’t something that happens to them.
  • It happens to their opponents. The Violets have won 76 games in a row, a streak that includes back-to-back Division III national titles and spans over 1,047 days.
  • That’s the longest active streak in women’s college basketball and the third longest in the sport’s history — behind only UConn’s streak of 111 in Division I and Washington University’s (St.
  • Louis) 81 wins as a fellow DIII program. The No.
  • 1 Violets are poised for yet another championship run.
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