Indianapolis — OK. Here is what we know about all of our teams. They’ve broken our hearts in culmination games.

Larry Legend lost a Game 7 or two.

Tom Brady has lost Super Bowls.

Mariano Rivera gave up the lead to the Diamondbacks.

It happens.

It’s sports.

Sometimes you lose.

Except that have you noticed the UConn women never have?

Never.

Eleven tries in national championship games.

Eleven wins.

And it’s the national championship game. Not SMU on a Tuesday in January. It’s been Tennessee. Notre Dame. Really good teams. Really good players. Olympians. And it doesn’t matter. That’s what makes the UConn women celestial. Mythical. If the NFL has Lombardi, college football has Bear, the NBA has Red and men’s basketball has the Wizard, women’s basketball has Geno.

And I get that you are allowed not to like it. You’re actually allowed to make up your own mind and not be treated like a sexist if you don’t agree with everybody trying to shout down everybody else.

But really: 11-for-11 in championship games? I mean, doesn’t everybody kind of have to shut up now?

“What we are watching is consistent greatness and what they are doing is exceptionally hard,” ESPN analyst Doris Burke was saying about UConn’s 11-ring circus. “Frankly, I’m tired of the cultural bias that continues to try to find a way to take shots at the extraordinary.

“I am a member of the distaff side so this is hard for me. It’s really tedious and tiresome that people want to take potshots at these kids who are achieving something extraordinary. It pisses me off. Forgive me for that. I mean, are you serious?”

Stand back. Doris is rolling.

“I go back to the very first game I played as a player against Geno,” Burke said, alluding to her career as a guard at Providence in the 1980s. “At that time, Providence was competing for Big East championships and you chalked two wins up against Connecticut. I swear to God I stepped between the lines and within five minutes of the first game, I believe it was (guard) Tammi Sweet. I looked at her and I went ‘I can’t get over the difference in your basketball team.’ She goes, ‘you have no idea.’”

Keep in mind there are few greater basketball minds in the media right now. Burke spends much of her time covering the NBA with men’s college and women’s college basketball mixed in. She is a rising star. She knows the game. She knows people.

“I’ve been playing against, coaching against or covering Geno Auriemma and this path to where they are now,” she said. “I say this all the time. If you want to understand their greatness, you have to watch a normal day in the life of UConn basketball. You have to go to a practice, in October or the middle of January when they’re facing an American Conference opponent that’s not in their league and watch what is expected of those kids on a moment-to-moment basis.”

Sometimes it’s this: Four UConn women trying to run a play against six male practice players. With Auriemma barking at them. And not exactly sympathetic ears from assistants Chris Dailey, Shea Ralph and Marisa Moseley either.

“I hear other coaches say ‘well, he gets the best players.’ I disagree. Does he get some of the best players? No question about it,” Burke said. “But the reality is, what they do every single day is hold those kids accountable. Every minute of every single day. Do you know how hard that is? Do you know the discipline required in what that staff expects of these kids? It’s not comfortable.

“Ask Rebecca Lobo when she was in his office crying and then he publicly humiliates her because she said ‘I want to play on the Olympic team.’ She thinks it’s a private conversation. He goes out to practice and says ‘you told me you wanted to be an Olympian. Is this how it gets done?’ These kids are coached and coached hard. It’s not comfortable.”

But, darn, how comfortable the Huskies look in culmination games, when the shadows lengthen and time grows desperate. Think there’s a correlation here?

“I’m a parent of two kids. If Geno Auriemma is coaching my kids I know this. He’s going to get the maximum level out of whatever physical abilities they have,” Burke said. “But more importantly, he’s going to make them as mentally strong as they can be. Probably stronger mentally than they think they can be.

“You know what that sets you up for? Life success. And as important as those championships are, to me as a parent, I want my kids to be ready for life success. And that’s going to be his legacy. Are the championships spectacular? Yes. But how many women has he made stronger and better citizens? I’ve said this to him: I wish I had the chance to be coached by him.”

Amen, Doris. Don’t we all.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.