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Since the women’s ������Ƶ basketball tournament began in 1982, just one team has appeared in every edition of it: the Tennessee Lady Volunteers, one of the teams synonymous with excellence in women’s college basketball.

But several other schools have pieced together impressive streaks, too, some lasting more than two decades.

Here are longest active appearance streaks in the ������Ƶ women’s basketball tournament.

Tennessee (43)

Tennessee hired the late, great Pat Summitt as its head coach in 1974, and four years later they were in AIAW Final Four, the tournament that preceded the ������Ƶ women’s basketball tournament. Summitt’s teams appeared in four AIAW Final Fours and made the Final Four in the first year of the ������Ƶ tournament in 1982 too. Summitt’s teams went to 18 Final Fours and won 16 SEC tournament titles.

UConn (36)

Believe it or not, there was a time where UConn wasn’t in the ������Ƶ tournament. Geno Auriemma was hired in 1985 and missed the Big Dance in each of his first three seasons. But in the fourth year, in 1989, UConn won the Big East and got in.

The Huskies have appeared in the ������Ƶ tournament ever since. They made their first Final Four in 1991 and captured their first national championship in 1995.

Here's the list of the top active streaks: