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Legendary UConn ladies’s basketball head coach Geno Auriemma made historical past Wednesday night time with the Huskies’ victory over Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Auriemma grew to become the all-time wins chief in school basketball historical past for each women and men, accumulating his 1,217th victory to cross Tara VanDerveer, the legendary Stanford Cardinal coach.
More than 60 former gamers had been at Gampel Pavilion as a part of a sellout crowd to observe the Huskies take down the Knights, 85-41. Despite UConn being a heavy favourite on this matchup, Auriemma went about teaching just like the 1,216 wins earlier than it, till the ultimate buzzer sounded.
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The sport was additionally a celebration of Auriemma and affiliate head coach Chris Dailey’s fortieth season main the Huskies. It was a part of a celebration that included a goat petting zoo close to the world throughout a fan fest, a reference to Auriemma being the best of all-time.
While the night time was meant to honor Auriemma and Dailey, the win to set the brand new report led to reflection on simply how dominant his program has been at UConn all these years.
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The Huskies are 11-time nationwide champions with 23 Final Four appearances, together with 15 within the final 16 years.
Auriemma’s .882 win proportion for his profession stays an NCAA report as nicely.
“At the start, we actually simply had our imaginative and prescient and one another to say, ‘This is what we’ll do,'” Dailey mentioned Tuesday, through ESPN. “And we had been capable of persuade sufficient individuals to consider that very same dream. And, finally, 40 years later, much more has occurred than what we ever thought would have.”
Paige Bueckers and head coach Geno Auriemma of the Connecticut Huskies in the course of the first half towards the Duke Blue Devils within the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament at Moda Center March 30, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
Auriemma has solely coached at one faculty, constructing his squad in Storrs to the purpose it was nationally acknowledged as a powerhouse for many years. After the workforce’s first nationwide title below Auriemma in 1995, UConn was, and nonetheless stays, a powerhouse each season.
Auriemma, 70, nonetheless desires to educate the Huskies regardless of admitting to feeling at instances it was the proper transfer to stroll away.
“As lengthy as I’m right here, and I stroll on this constructing, and I see the gamers right here, and I see the folks that work in my little world and the way all of us form of encourage one another, there isn’t any different place I’d need to be,” he mentioned.
Head coach Geno Auriemma of the Connecticut Huskies celebrates after his workforce’s 80-73 win towards the USC Trojans within the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament at Moda Center April 1, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (Soobum Im/Getty Images)
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UConn stays unbeaten at 4-0 to start out the 2024-25 marketing campaign.
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