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.

PAST AIAW CHAMPIONS
YEAR	TEAM	RUNNER-UP	SCORE
1972	Immaculata	West Chester	52-48
1973	Immaculata	Queens	59-52
1974	Immaculata	Miss. College	68-53
1975	Delta State	Immaculata	90-81
1976	Delta State	Immaculata	69-64
1977	Delta State	Louisiana State	68-55
1978	UCLA	Maryland	90-74
1979	Old Dominion	Louisiana Tech	75-65
1980	Old Dominion	Tennessee	68-53
1981	Louisiana Tech	Tennessee	79-59
1982	Rutgers	Texas	83-77