BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Breanna Stewart said when she was a freshman that her goal at UConn was to win four national championships.

The Huskies’ star senior stands two victories away from backing up that statement as the Huskies are back in the Final Four for a ninth straight season.

That’s no surprise the way they’ve run through the season, winning all 36 of their games by double digits. Two more wins will give UConn an unprecedented feat with a fourth consecutive title.

“We’re really excited to go to the Final Four,” said Stewart, who was selected as the Most Outstanding Player of the Bridgeport Regional.

“I think that any time you go, it’s a lot of fun, there’s a lot going on. ... This is our last trip with this team. Last time to be with this team. And I think we’re just going to enjoy it. Especially as seniors. Last time it’s going to be like this.”

While it seems that making the national semifinals is an annual rite of spring for UConn, the other teams heading to Indianapolis are doing so for the first time. Oregon State, Washington and Syracuse are all making their debuts.

It’s the first time since 1994 that three women’s teams will make their first Final Four appearance in the same season. That was the year before UConn won its first of 10 national championships.

So much for there being no parity in women’s basketball.

“Maybe it’s taken awhile, but there are a lot of good players out there and there’s a lot of really good coaches out there and I’m glad that everybody in the country got to see two teams that maybe you don’t get to see much at all,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “So I’m thrilled for them.”

Oregon State, which will face UConn on Sunday night, isn’t a major surprise after winning the Pac-12 and earning a No. 2 seed in the NCAAs. Still Oregon State hadn’t won more than one game in the NCAAs before this season. Coach Scott Rueck has rebuilt this program.

“I’m just the happiest, proudest coach that you could possibly imagine right now and I could go on forever about this group,” Rueck said after his team knocked off No. 1 seed Baylor.

“So this is a great, great day, and I think that this day signifies just anything is possible. People who know our story and have been following this group, there is no other words to describe it.

“It’s a great sports story. It has nothing to do with women’s basketball. It has to do with sports and the human spirit and that might be kinda deep, but that’s what this is, a group that believed when there was no reason to, to see themselves through a Final Four, it’s mind-blowing. I’m just super happy!”