Georgia Tech’s women’s basketball team ends UConn’s 239-game win streak against unranked opponents

After the UConn women’s basketball team’s first loss to an unranked team since 2012, head coach Geno Auriemma said Thursday that the Huskies are “in a bad way right now as a team.”

The No. 3 Huskies fell 57-44 at Georgia Tech in UConn’s lowest-scoring game since losing 48-42 to Rutgers on Feb. 27, 2006. The Huskies’ last loss to an unranked foe was a 57-56 defeat to St. John’s on Feb. 18, 2012, a stretch of 239 games.

UConn lost guard Paige Bueckers — the Huskies’ leader in points, assists and steals — to a knee injury in Sunday’s 73-54 victory over Notre Dame. She is expected to be out at least six to eight weeks, and UConn’s offense struggled without her. The Huskies are also without guards Azzi Fudd and Nika Muhl and forward Aubrey Griffin, who are also injured.

The score was tied 39-39 after three quarters, reflective of a game being played at a pace that suited the defensive-minded Yellow Jackets. But then Georgia Tech outscored UConn 18-5 in the fourth quarter. In their other loss this season, 73-57 to No. 1 South Carolina on Nov. 22, the Huskies scored just three points in the fourth — and that was with Bueckers, Fudd and Muhl playing.

“We’re disorganized as a group right now, from the coaching on down,” Auriemma said. “There is no sense of [having] a plan of how we’re going to execute, how we’re going to get a bucket, who’s going to get it for us.

“Scoring is a function of people working together. I thought Georgia Tech did a great job of that. Their post players worked really well together, really controlled the game. In that fourth quarter, we didn’t respond. Which has happened before with this team. So you can blame Paige not being here — yeah, that’s part of it — but that’s not the real story.”

Georgia Tech was unranked entering…