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
bit dip hard pace
I think it would have been hard to keep up that pace that she had that month. There's a little bit of a dip in games, but I think she'll be back.
ahead front
The only thing you can do is go ahead with what's there in front of you. If she can play, then you play her. If she can't play, you don't play her.
amount certain couple days falls happens last responsibility
When you get to be a senior, a certain amount of responsibility falls on your shoulders, like all of it. Everything that happens on our team, you're responsible for it and you can't not take responsibility for it just because you're not playing. ... I think (Turner) understands that now and she was really different the last couple of days in practice.
believe bit duke leads manner national played previous talk teams winning
The previous Duke teams used to always talk about winning a national championship a lot more than they actually played to win a championship. This team is a little bit different. They don't talk as much about it. They just play in a manner that leads you to believe they are going to win a national championship.
decide gets individual outcome player program time
This time of year, it's the individual player that makes the difference. The things you do as a program gets you to this point. Then individuals decide the outcome of the games.
deciding individual outcomes players systems time
This time of year, a team's systems don't matter. It's individual players that end up deciding the outcomes of the games.
deciding gets huge individual outcome players point program stepped style system time
This time of the year, it's individual players who make the difference. Your style of play, your system as a program gets you to this point and then individual players end up deciding the outcome of the game. Ann stepped up and made some huge plays.
act beat hoping last watching year
To their kids' credit, they play hard, even last year when they were losing. Their mind-set is, 'We can win,' where before they were hoping not to get beat by too much. Watching on film, they act like they can win.
level sure
With Brittany, you?re not sure what level she?s at. How much will she play during the tournament? I don?t know. How much can she play? I still don?t know.
counteract east lane level limited practice quite since sure teams toll took
With Brittany, you're not quite sure what level she's at. She hasn't been able to practice much since the Big East tournament. It took a little toll on her. But even if she can play in a limited role, at least we have someone in the lane who can counteract some of the teams we can play. But how much, I don't know.
basketball concerns factor good guard pivotal serious
There are serious concerns about our guard play. Good guard play is such a pivotal factor in good basketball teams.
comfort compared level ok situations throw twice
The one thing that she can do that is really, really amazing, compared to the other guys. She only has to see things once or twice and she?s got it. So you can throw her in a lot of different situations and she?s OK with it, which is kind of a comfort level for a coach.
amazing games kids lost remember shame side situation turned
I don't remember us ever being in a situation where I thought we had it won, then lost it, thought we had it won, then lost it. It was really an amazing game. It's a shame any of those kids had to be on the other side of that. I would think in the 21 years I've been at Connecticut, I don't remember more than one or two games that turned out like this.
against biggest conference learned ncaa ourselves road season seem team tonight tournament win
This was probably the biggest win we've had this season because of all the things that go with it. Conference game, we're still in first place, on the road against a team that's going to be there in the end. It may not seem that big right now, but come NCAA Tournament time, some of the things we learned about ourselves tonight will really come in handy.