Death, taxes and the UConn women’s soccer team beating Seton Hall University.
While those first two absolutes may seem more inevitable, there’s no evidence toward proving the latter wrong. Since the first game between the two programs on Oct. 1, 1995, the Huskies have gone a perfect 17-0 against the Pirates. Seton Hall has scored just seven goals on UConn across that 30-plus year span, with their seventh and most recent coming half a decade ago.
The Huskies (3-2-5, 1-0-1 Big East) will look to extend that prolonged streak of dominance to 18-0 when they host the Pirates (4-1-4, 0-1-2 Big East) on Wednesday at Joseph J. Morrone Stadium.
While the Huskies are an undefeated 3-0-2 on their home turf this season, goals have been hard to come by as of late.
For the first time since losing leading scorer Maeve Staunton, , the Huskies’ offense showed signs of life on Saturday in a 2-1 win over Providence College (2-2-7, 0-1-1 Big East). Scoring for the first time in those four games, sophomore Tiana Righetti got the Huskies on the board within the first three minutes of the match before junior forward Chloe Shimkin scored the game winner in the second half.
Shimkin is tied for second on the Huskies with four points on the season after also adding a pair of assists in the first half of September.
Though the Huskies are off to a solid 1-0-1 start to Big East play after Saturday’s win and a 0-0 draw on Sept. 30 against St. John’s, Shimkin said after Saturday’s contest that they are taking the games as they come.
“We take games one game at a time,” Shimkin said. “We prepare for each and every opponent; they’re going to offer us something different. Just being locked in and prepared for each game is crucial for us.”
Seton Hall ranked last in the 2026 Big East preseason coaches’ poll, all the way down at No. 11. Though the Pirates have outplayed that prediction in the early going, currently sitting in the middle of the conference at No. 6, how they reached that position is more dubious.
The Pirates earned a pair of points through 0-0 draws against preseason No. 10 DePaul (3-3-5, 0-1-2 Big East) and preseason No. 8 Butler (6-2-3, 1-0-2 Big East) before falling to preseason No. 3 Xavier (8-2-1, 2-0-1 Big East) in their last match, 2-0.
While the Huskies have struggled immensely to score on the season as a whole, ranking outside the top 200 in Division I with just 12 goals, the Pirates have netted even less with 10, according to the NCAA website. Seton Hall has not scored in its last five games, four of which have been 0-0 draws.
The Pirates’ leading scorers on the season are senior midfielder and Connecticut native Gianna Angelillo and junior midfielder Kileigh Gorman, who each have three goals on the season. Neither player has scored in over a month.
The Pirates will be the Huskies’ last matchup before reaching the meat of Big East play. UConn, who is currently No. 4 in the conference with four points, will travel to Cincinnati on Saturday to face second-place Xavier.
“[We’re] just taking it game by game and whether we’re home or away, fighting for those three points no matter what,” Righetti said after Saturday’s game against Providence.
Game time on Wednesday is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The contest will stream live on ESPN+.