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Caroline Peper is pictured during a March 2025 game for NYU. NCAA Photos via Getty Image<\/p>\nAll good things must come to an end.<\/p>\n
The NYU women\u2019s basketball team learned that the hard way Thursday night when Scranton terminated the Violets\u2019 91-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
After securing back-to-back NCAA Division III national championships and three consecutive undefeated seasons, NYU\u2019s dominant run came to a stunning end in the Final Four, with the Lady Royals winning, 60-52.<\/p>\n
NYU knew it was facing arguably its toughest test in three years in Scranton. <\/p>\n
Caroline Peper is pictured during a March 2025 game for NYU. NCAA Photos via Getty Image<\/p>\n
The Lady Royals embarrassed Pitt in front of its home crowd in November in an exhibition game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scranton entered Thursday 30-0 and fresh off a 25-point win against Concordia-Moorhead in the Elite Eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NYU scored a measly five points in the first quarter and trailed Scranton 30-18 at halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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
Thursday was the Violets\u2019 first loss since March 11, 2023, when Transylvania defeated NYU in the Elite Eight. During its 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
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
\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
Streaks are made to expire. NYU\u2019s hourglass ran dry Thursday night. <\/p>\n
But the Violets forever cemented their spot in the history books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All good things must come to an end. The NYU women\u2019s basketball team learned that the hard way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10150,64216,65567,65568,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-143338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-nyu-violets","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}