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At UConn, anticipation is growing as college women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers, former national player of the year, gears up for a return that promises to eclipse her previous brilliance on the basketball court. The determination is not lost on UConn head coach Geno Auriemma. “Paige is a better basketball player now than she was […]

After a year sidelined with a devastating knee injury, Ice Brady is on the verge of making her long-awaited debut for the UConn women’s basketball team. The freshman standout was two weeks shy of her first collegiate game when a practice mishap resulted in a dislocated patella, a blow that not only ended her season […]

Now it can be said: Sue Bird and Geno Aueriemma considers the Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi the WNBA’s GOAT. Aueriemma, Taurasi’s college coach at UConn basketball, already saw something special in her when she was a true freshman in 2000. He told her to wear No. 3 because she could eventually become the Babe Ruth […]

The Phoenix Mercury may be struggling in 2023, but All-Star Diana Taurasi is continuing to dominate for the squad at the age of 41. She is closing in on an incredible 10,000 career points milestone, and former coach Geno Auriemma is singing her praises. Taurasi starred at UConn back in the day, and played under […]

NCAA legislation that went into effect on July 1 that allows college basketball programs to add two new assistants, and Geno Auriemma and the UConn women’s basketball program is already taking advantage of the new legislation. The UConn women’s basketball program is adding former Temple women’s basketball head coach Tonya Cardoza as an assistant to […]

Although UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers is not fully cleared from her ACL injury that kept her out of the 2022-2023 season, but head coach Geno Auriemma said she is 90% recovered, and is expected to be fully ready by the start of the regular season, according to D’Arcy Maine of ESPN. “If she’s […]

The UConn Huskies of old have returned and it couldn’t have come at a better time. After blistering through most of the Big East tournament this past week, UConn could be peaking at the right time after injuries have put a strain on the team’s depth all season. Sophomore Azzi Fudd made her return after […]

UConn women’s basketball head coach Geno Auriemma has missed three games for the program this year, and is set to miss a fourth when the Huskies travel to Xavier for a date with the Musketeers on Thursday night. Auriemma explained his decision to miss the game on Thursday morning, per Lila Bromberg of the Hartford […]

After the set-up of the Indiana women’s basketball team Feast Week tournament was detailed, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma and sophomore guard had strong words about it following their comeback win vs. Iowa. “It’s probably the last time they’ll get a good team to go to that tournament. It’s almost that condescending kind of thinking, […]

Only a couple weeks into the season, women’s college basketball has already seen some of the top teams around the country be taken down by their underdog counterparts. UConn head coach Geno Auriemma believes college fans should get used to it. “You’re going to see that happen more and more,” Auriemma told ESPN. “Hell, that’s […]

The day has come. The seemingly eternal winning streak of the University of Connecticut in women’s basketball has been put to rest by Villanova on Wednesday night. The Wildcats pulled off the monumental upset, 72-69 to snap the Huskies’ 169-game conference winnings streak. The last time UConn lost in a Big East contest, Macklemore & […]

The UConn women’s basketball team has enjoyed an enormous amount of success under head coach Geno Auriemma. Under Auriemma’s leadership, the Huskies have won 11 national championships and have finished the season with a perfect record four times. That astonishing level of success comes with a fair amount of coverage from sports outlets, specifically ESPN, […]

The UConn women’s basketball team, ranked third in the nation, is off to a good start at 5-1. The Huskies are coming off of a convincing victory over number-22 ranked Notre Dame, but the win was a bittersweet one. UConn star Paige Bueckers suffered a knee injury late in the game. Head coach Geno Auriemma […]

The top-seeded UConn Huskies were the beneficiaries of a controversial non-call in a tight game against the second-seeded Baylor Lady Bears in the Elite Eight of the ongoing NCAA Tournament. After gaining the narrow win to go to the Final Four, UConn head coach Geno Auriemma addressed the situation and used LeBron James as an […]

At this point, it’s safe to say that the scientific community’s relationship with Kyrie Irving is a rocky one. This is largely due to Irving’s staunchness over his belief that the Earth is flat—not round. Sure the Boston Celtics guard once clarified that walking around and telling people that the planet we all are living […]

Geno Auriemma is one of the best basketball coaches in the history of the sport. No, you. There are no caveats about him coaching the women’s game needed. His genius knows no bounds. Anyway, the UConn coach was recently forced to publicly comment after promoting the school’s fight against more than $300 million in cuts to […]

There have been a lot of headlines about Villanova’s Jay Wright possibly making the leap to the NBA after winning a national championship earlier this week. The Suns even made him their top priority. But what about a coach who won a national title not just this year, but a total of 11 times in his […]