INDIANAPOLIS—Indescribable. 

That’s a word the normally loquacious Geno Auriemma kept using Tuesday night after his UConn Huskies accomplished what his three senior All-Americans have been aiming for their entire college careers:

Win four national championships.

What more is there to say after they did just that?

After the Huskies dispatched Syracuse 82-51 Tuesday night, Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck entered the record books of college basketball history, becoming the first NCAA Division I players to pull off such a feat.

It’s also the first time an NCAA women’s Division I program has one four titles in a row, surpassing three-peats by Tennessee (1996-98) and UConn (2002-04). In the AIAW era, Immaculata (1972-74) and Delta State (1975-77) won three consecutive championships.

In capping off a perfect 38-0 season, the Huskies tied UCLA with their 11th NCAA championship in leading wire-to-wire against their former Big East rivals from Syracuse (30-8), making its Women’s Final Four and national championship game debut.

Auriemma, who surpassed UCLA coach John Wooden’s 10 national championships, is 11-0 in title games.

“There’s not much I can say,” Auriemma said of what his team has accomplished under its senior leaders. “It’s a feeling that you have that’s indescribable.

“They’ve created an amount of excitement for the game that has not been seen in this sport in a long time, if not forever.”

Many bold strokes are necessary to recount what UConn has done during the Stewart-Jefferson-Tuck era.

In their four seasons, UConn compiled a staggering record of 151-5, the best for any class in women’s collegiate history, and posted two of the program’s six undefeated national championship seasons. The seniors’ last game, played before a strongly pro-UConn crowd of 14,514 at Banker’s Life Field House, extended the Huskies’ winning streak to 75 games.

“If we had come to any other school together, we wouldn’t have done this,” said Stewart, who scored 24 points, pulled down 10 assists and dished out six assists and also made history by becoming the first player named the Women’s Final Four Most Outstanding Player four time.s

“It was the perfect ending. I’m not sure what word you can use to describe it. We had a goal coming in as freshmen, and now as seniors we did that. We did what we wanted to do. And it was a lot of fun.”

As his team posed during for trophy presentations, Auriemma was at an uncharacteristic loss for words.

“It’s hard to describe something that’s never been done before,” Auriemma said during the trophy presentations. “If you’ve ever felt like you love something more than anything in the world, that’s what this feels like.”

UConn got out to a quick 9-0 lead as Syracuse, which rode hot 3-point shooting in the NCAA tournament, struggled to get untracked.

Right before the end of the first quarter, the Orange gained a little momentum on a 3-point basket by Briana Butler, who led the nation with 128 made treys during the season. The Orange had cut UConn’s lead to 25-13, then Jefferson does what the Huskies do so often.

They break your soul.

She buried a trey at the buzzer while falling down.

In the third quarter, Syracuse went on 16-0 run as UConn looked sluggish. Another buzzer beater, this time a driving layup by UConn freshman Napheesa Collier, made the score 64-43. 

Tuck scored 19 points and had seven rebounds and Jefferson added 13 points and five assists.

Cornelia Fondren had 16 points, Brittney Sykes 12 and Alexis Peterson 11 for Syracuse, which was one of three newcomers at the Women’s Final Four.

“Credit to UConn and Geno and their players,” said Sykes, an AAU teammate and close friend of Stewart since their days with the Philadelphia Belles. “They know how to score the basketball, and they’re just an efficient team. That takes a lot of years to get to that level, and Geno has built that program and he’s recruited those types of players.

Auriemma has often said of his outgoing group that it’s making something that’s very hard to do look very easy. The ease with which UConn wins can be very deceptive.

“If it is easy then you are doing it wrong,” UConn sophomore forward Gabby Williams said. “That’s something you need to learn, especially at this program.

“People see the outcome, but they don’t see what goes into it. At times, you do make it look easy on the court but that is because we practice until we can’t get it wrong anymore.”

That’s what has separated UConn from the pack for so long that it’s hard to remember a time when it wasn’t this way.

Auriemma’s outgoing players join a stellar collection of previous Husky legends, many of whom were on hand Tuesday: Rebecca Lobo, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore.

“They’ve left an imprint on this game that’s going to last a really long time,” Auriemma said of his current seniors. “I think it’s a blueprint for kids coming after them that if you want to know how to do it, they showed everybody how to do it.

“They did it the right way. They did it together and they did it with people that they love. And I’m really, really proud of them.”

Auriemma acknowledged that next season would represent the biggest transition he’s had from one season to the next, and to a certain extent, a new era as well.

“It’s okay,” he said. “I’m kind of looking forward to it. There’s a lot of new stories to be written.”