It did n't win a championship -- in fact , cruelly , UConn lost to Duke two days later on Christian Laettner 's own buzzer beater -- .
UConn marked the first seminal moment in the UConn ' rise to national prominence .
It did n't win a championship -- in fact , cruelly , UConn lost to Duke two days later on Christian Laettner 's own buzzer beater -- but it marked the first seminal moment in the Huskies ' rise to national prominence .