Breaking down UConn's uniform usage

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Breaking down UConn's uniform usage

Four years ago, UConn women’s basketball entered a new era. The Huskies added a big freshman class that featured Paige Bueckers, Nika Mühl and Aaliyah Edwards and also joined the new Big East.

With it came a new set of uniforms. The Huskies ditched the look they had in the post-Breanna Stewart years for new home, away and alternate gray sets. In the four seasons since that switch, they’ve worn six different uniforms: The aforementioned three along with throwback, black and pink-trimmed looks.

Standard home whites | Record: 50-7 (.877)

UConn has worn its standard home white uniforms more than any other, putting them on for 57 games — 40.1 percent of its contests since 2020-21. They served as the Huskies’ primary look until this past season, when they were unofficially replaced by the white throwbacks.

After using the stock whites six times in six possible opportunities to open the season, they put them on just once more the rest of the campaign — the Big East Tournament semifinals. This year will reveal whether that change is permanent.

Flag blue aways | Record: 42-8 (.840)

UConn’s typical road look has (unsurprisingly) been its second most worn uniform. The Huskies use them for most away games, though there’s a few exceptions. They’ve worn them at home three times (Arkansas to open the 2021-22 season, NC State in 2022-23 and Marquette in 2023-24), all of which were at the XL Center. UConn also wore white despite playing at Maryland in 2022-23 and wore gray at DePaul in 2020-21.

Gray alternates | Record: 5-1 (.833)

Prior to 2020-21, UConn wore gray at all of its XL Center contests. But once all home games during the Covid season were held at Gampel Pavilion, the Huskies went away from that tradition and their use of the grays dropped significantly as a result.

UConn donned the look five times in 2020-21 — debuting them in a national television contest at DePaul — including three of its five NCAA Tournament games. The lone loss the Huskies suffered in gray came in the 2021 Final Four vs. Arizona.

The next season, UConn pulled them out just once — the Big East Tournament semifinal against Marquette — and haven’t used them since. The turn-of-the-century throwback replaced the grays as the Huskies’ alternate look.

White throwbacks

The home uniform from 1998-2002, UConn brought back the look as a throwback alternate for the first time against Tennessee in January 2022. Initially, the Huskies used it sparingly with just five appearances prior to the 2023-24 season.

Then in December 2023, UConn quietly decided to make the throwback sets its primary white uniform. The Huskies wore it 15 times this past season compared to just seven appearances for the standard whites.

Big game blacks

Initially debuted in 2018-19 at Notre Dame as a uniform for big games, UConn stuck with it despite freshening up the rest of its look in 2020. The Huskies put them on for their trips to Tennessee and Arkansas in 2021, used them again at Oregon in 2022 and stayed with them for the PK85 matchup with Iowa as well as another trip to Tennessee in 2022-23.

The uniforms have since left UConn’s rotation. It didn’t use them at all in 2023-24. Considering the Huskies were just 3-2 in them, good riddance.

Play4Kay pink

Once a year, UConn pulls out its pink-trimmed uniforms for its Play4Kay game. Thought seldom-used, the Huskies have a perfect 4-0 record with them, including a thrilling overtime win against South Carolina in 2020-21.

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