UConn's Geno Auriemma Sounds Off on Officiating The Huskies renewed one of college basketball's most storied rivalries Thursday in Knoxville. Sports Illustrated · Jan 27, 2023
Dom Amore: UConn-Tennessee means history for Geno Auriemma, while his players stay in the moment HARTFORD, Conn. — Geno Auriemma gathered his players this week and tried to explain the history behind what is about to happen. When UConn and Tennessee play in women’s basketball, it is a tradition like no other. Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2023
Despite slow start, No. 5 UConn routs Butler, 79-39 STORRS, Conn. — Another game, another short-handed victory for the UConn women’s basketball team. Tribune News Service · Jan 22, 2023
Recharged UConn coach Geno Auriemma opens up after a month of grief and sickness, talks about finding a new perspective HARTFORD, Conn. — Geno Auriemma was a curious kid growing up. The UConn women’s head coach is now an 11-time national champion and Hall of Famer, but back then he used to work alongside older Italian men, helping the stonemasons and bricklayers and carpenters as they went about their days.… Tribune News Service · Jan 14, 2023
Coach Geno Auriemma rejoins UConn women’s basketball team, to be on sidelines at St. John’s HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn women’s basketball will have head coach Geno Auriemma back on the sidelines when it faces St. John’s on Wednesday night. Tribune News Service · Jan 11, 2023
UConn WBB Forced to Postpone Game Without Enough Healthy Players The Huskies are also missing coach Geno Auriemma due to illness. Sports Illustrated · Jan 7, 2023
South Carolina maintains control of top spot in AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll The Gamecocks have held the No. 1 spot for 27 consecutive weeks, which is the fifth longest run all-time. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 26, 2022
UConn coach Geno Auriemma to miss second game in a row with illness HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn women’s basketball will be without head coach Geno Auriemma against Seton Hall, the program announced Tuesday. Tribune News Service · Dec 21, 2022
‘The most far fetched thing that you could ever imagine’: How Inês Bettencourt stepped into starting point guard role for injury-ridden UConn HARTFORD, Conn. — If you told someone a few months ago that Inês Bettencourt would be the starting point guard for UConn women’s basketball in a top-25 matchup on the road, they probably wouldn’t have believed you. Tribune News Service · Dec 15, 2022
Dom Amore: Decimated by injuries, UConn women will have to get creative, dig deep to hang on to victories 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. Tribune News Service · Dec 10, 2022
No. 7 Notre Dame women beat No. 3 UConn Maddy Westbeld had a season-high 17 points and nine rebounds for the Fighting Irish. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 5, 2022
Women’s Hoops Heat Check: Catching up with college contenders (UConn), pretenders (Tennessee) and stars (Angel Reese) Everything that's been happening in women's college basketball while you've been busy. USA Today Sports Media Group · Nov 23, 2022
South Carolina, Stanford remain atop AP women’s basketball poll The Gamecocks again were the unanimous choice, receiving all 29 first-place votes. Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 21, 2022
UConn women’s basketball 2022-23: Huskies take on a distinct international flavor as Geno Auriemma transforms Storrs into the crossroads of the world HARTFORD, Conn. — The notes app on Azzi Fudd’s iPhone is a Rosetta Stone of sorts. Fascinated with how kids grow up learning multiple languages overseas, the UConn women’s basketball guard started picking up Hungarian from Pecs native Dorka Juhász last season and is now trying her hand at French… Tribune News Service · Nov 6, 2022
Tribune News Service · Nov 4, 2022 UConn women’s basketball 2022-23 team by the numbers HARTFORD, Conn. — The UConn women’s basketball season is just around the corner. Fans and media will get their first glimpse at the 2022-23 Huskies in an exhibition game against Division II Kutztown this Sunday, followed by the season opener against Northeastern on Thursday night.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · Oct 20, 2022 Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist is a Big East prime-time attraction NEW YORK — Maddy Siegrist, reigning Big East player of the year, answers most questions with a kind of wry half-smile, game for most any query, strange or straightforward.
Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022 UConn women’s basketball: Five storylines to watch with less than a month until start of 2022-23 season HARTFORD, Conn. — The wait is almost over. The UConn women’s basketball season officially starts in less than a month.
Tribune News Service · Oct 5, 2022 UConn expecting Azzi Fudd to make big leap in her sophomore season HARTFORD, Conn. — Though she showed glimpses of greatness, Azzi Fudd didn’t feel at all like herself in her freshman season at UConn. The 5-foot-11 guard dealt with a foot injury all year which hampered her movement and limited her effectiveness.
Tribune News Service · Sep 20, 2022 Kiah Stokes’ experience at UConn prepared her to embrace role for Las Vegas Aces in WNBA title run Kiah Stokes and her teammates used to drive from the UConn campus in Storrs to Mohegan Sun Arena to attend WNBA games as often as they could during summer sessions. With the goal of playing at the next level in mind, the former Husky center remembers sitting in the stands…
Tribune News Service · Sep 2, 2022 Dom Amore: ‘Assistant coach’ Paige Bueckers keeping positive, staying committed to her UConn women’s basketball family STORRS, Conn. — Paige Bueckers went up for a layup and came down hard, awkwardly. And she knew, as an athlete almost always knows when it is bad. She went to the training room and remembers her frustration poured out.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · Aug 26, 2022 Is Philadelphia a women’s basketball city? The WNBA wants to know before it expands. PHILADELPHIA — Face it, Philadelphia could have no better cheerleader for a WNBA franchise than Dawn Staley, current iconic player-turned-coach of her sport.
Tribune News Service · Aug 3, 2022 Dom Amore: Paige Bueckers torn ACL a punch to the gut of UConn women’s basketball and to those who’ve grown to love watching her play HARTFORD, Conn. — The iPhone shook and the email popped up at 3:17 p.m. On a nondescript summer day what could the UConn women’s basketball program be announcing? A scheduling change, a new NIL deal, a bit of routine housekeeping?
Sports Illustrated · Aug 3, 2022 Bueckers’s Injury Is a Crushing Blow to UConn and a Sport One season after the Huskies were hampered by injuries, their star is already back on the sidelines.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 24, 2022 Tina Charles Always Adapts When Brittney Griner was detained, it was—among many other, far bigger concerns—a wrench in the plan of the Mercury, which, with the addition of the underrated Charles, expected to be a title contender again this season.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 10, 2022 Geno Auriemma Shares Major Offseason Goal for Paige Bueckers UConn’s former national player of the year dealt with significant injuries last season.