STORRS, Conn. — The eerie silence was broken when Nika Mühl sat up and was helped to her feet. Then there was only clapping as Geno Auriemma and athletic trainer Janelle Francisco each took a shoulder and helped her take one step at a time.
Paige Bueckers, a few months into her recovery from knee surgery, moved out and relieved the coach, taking the left arm and helping Mühl, who had fallen and hit her head first on Aaliyah Edwards’ knee and then on the floor, to her seat on the bench, where she’d join Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, Ice Brady and Dorka Juhász.
So this is what it has come to for the UConn women’s basketball team: one injured player helping another off the court. Strange times. Trying times. There was 17:07 left to play and the UConn women’s basketball team was ahead of Princeton by 11 points on “throw-back night.”
