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| Long before the Tennessee women's basketball team became the first to win three consecutive NCAA titles, the Immaculata women accomplished the same feat in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
The AIAW was formed in 1972 and ran through 1982, when the first NCAA Tournament was held for women's basketball. Although the last AIAW champion was decided 18 years ago, the league played an important part of women's college basketball history. Immaculata, the first women's college basketball team to play a nationally-televised game and the first women's team to travel overseas, won three consecutive national championships from 1972 to '74. Delta State then swept the next three titles before Ann Meyers' UCLA Bruins and Nancy Lieberman-Cline's Old Dominion Lady Monarchs eventually won championships.
| ALSO SEE Past NCAA champions (1982-1999)
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