Geno Auriemma
Geno Auriemma
Luigi "Geno" Auriemma is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. He has led UConn to eleven NCAA Division I national championships, a feat matched by no one else in college basketball, and has won seven national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards. Auriemma has been the head coach of the United States women's national basketball team since 2009, during which time his teams won the 2010...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 March 1954
CityMontella, Italy
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everybody feels good last minutes needed ran smart today
Today we were smart enough (to win). We ran out of timeouts and we did a lot of good things the last two minutes that we needed to do. Everybody feels real good about it right now.
describe saw words wordy
You can't describe it. I can't describe it and I'm a pretty wordy guy. But I have no words to describe what I saw (Saturday).
change extremely
You can't change this all in one night. We are extremely flawed, as you can tell.
again ncaa tournament
Well, if the NCAA Tournament is back here again and they put us back here, we'll come back.
changes good minutes night
Brittany did a lot of good things tonight. If we know we can get 10-15 minutes from her every night like that, that changes things.
error example games margin perfect small
Everything has to be so perfect. Our margin for error is so small that games like (Tuesday) are a perfect example of that.
individual run score sheer stuff talent
We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.
darn good gotten hung looked looking lucky maybe month next somebody year
To her credit, Will?s hung in there this year when it could have gotten away from her. Now you?re looking at a possibility of (15) more games, if you?re lucky enough to play that long, so maybe somebody like Will in the next month can salvage something pretty darn good out of something that looked like it was really terrible.
against athletic good great might passes seven teams temper thrown
You have to temper everything, you have to say that some of the passes that we threw, if they were thrown against teams that have great athletic ability, they might have been stolen. But you look at it and you say, ?How many turnovers should you have if you play Albany?? Well, seven is a good number.
game gets good hardest hurdle lose months national position win worse
When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.
concerned goes good hardest might physical seem somebody worry
Every day that you see somebody that you think is really, really good and can't seem to get it going, you're always concerned about that because after a while, it's not physical anymore. It's mental. And that's the hardest thing to overcome. Every day that it goes on, you worry like they might never come out of this.
afterwards chance diana good group looking special
Diana said afterwards there's pretty good vibes. There's a good feel to the group out there and the way they're approaching things right now. All I can tell from looking at them is they really think that this can be something pretty special for them. And as long as they think that, there's a chance it will happen.
game gotta
You gotta be able to play with the game on the line.
barbara bet college found four happy nobody themselves
You go to college to find out about yourself and I'll bet you nobody found out more about themselves in the four years at Connecticut than Barbara Turner. So you've got to be really happy for the kid.