{"id":169166,"date":"2026-03-20T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:47:13","slug":"nyu-womens-basketballs-91-game-winning-streak-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169166\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU women&#8217;s basketball&#8217;s 91-game winning streak ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All good things must come to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYU women\u2019s basketball team learned that the hard way Thursday night when Scranton terminated the Violets\u2019 91-game winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After securing back-to-back NCAA Division III national championships and three consecutive undefeated seasons, NYU\u2019s dominant run ended in Salem, Va., with a stunning 60-52 Final Four loss. <\/p>\n<p>NYU knew it was facing arguably its toughest test in three years in Scranton. The Lady Royals embarrassed Pitt in front of its home crowd during an exhibition game in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scranton entered Thursday 30-0, winning by an average of 38.4 points, and fresh off a 25-point win against Concordia-Moorhead in the Elite Eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38838393\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/nyu-main-1.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline Peper is pictured during a March 2025 game for NYU.\" class=\"wp-image-38838393\"  \/>Caroline Peper is pictured during a March 2025 game for NYU. NCAA Photos via Getty Image<\/p>\n<p>NYU, ranked No. 2 in scoring margin (plus-36.3 points per game), scored a measly five points in the first quarter and trailed Scranton 30-18 at halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Violets made a valiant run out of the break to trim the Lady Royals\u2019 lead to three, but Scranton ultimately held off NYU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the Violets\u2019 first loss since March 11, 2023, when Transylvania defeated NYU in the Elite Eight. During their winning streak \u2014 the second longest in NCAA history \u2014 the Violets had beaten opponents by an average of more than 30 points per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYU\u2019s 91-game winning streak was the second-longest in NCAA history, trailing only UConn women\u2019s 111-game run from 2014-2017.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, NYU coach Meg Barber told The Post that she couldn\u2019t have imagined her program\u2019s level of sustained success even in her wildest dreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there\u2019s a lot of loud outside noise, I came here to do this, in a way,\u201d Barber said. \u201cI really believed that this program had the opportunity to be a dominant force in the women\u2019s basketball scene.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Streaks are made to expire. NYU\u2019s hourglass ran dry Thursday night. But the Violets forever cemented their spot in the history books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38839161\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2148310542.jpg\" alt=\"Head coach Meg Barber of the New York Violets yells during the game against the Smith Pioneers during the Division III Women's Basketball Championship held at the Capital Center Performance Arena on March 16, 2024 in Columbus, Ohio. \" class=\"wp-image-38839161\"  \/>Head coach Meg Barber of the New York Violets yells during the game against the Smith Pioneers during the Division III Women\u2019s Basketball Championship held at the Capital Center Performance Arena on March 16, 2024 in Columbus, Ohio.  NCAA Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With Thursday\u2019s win, Scranton advanced to the national championship game to contend for its first title since 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All good things must come to an end.\u00a0 The NYU women\u2019s basketball team learned that the hard way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,63551,68679,9,24,55,54,56,1558,69329,319],"class_list":["post-169166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-nyu-violets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}