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
commitment contract reflection
The new contract is a reflection of the university's commitment to me and my commitment to the university.
ended experience four great incredible remembered stuff unfair
I want them to be remembered for being at Connecticut for four years and having had an incredible experience during those four years that no one else got to experience in their four years. It?s unfair to think of them as, ?Well, this is how it ended.? It ended not great, but there was a lot of great stuff that they were a part of.
anybody darned finishing good league strength teams
The strength of your league is what is going on in the middle. We have always been good at the top. But we will have teams finishing 10th, 11th 12th in our league who are pretty darned good, and I don't know that anybody else has that.
close final game lucky months puts wait win
This is the game that puts you in the Final Four. To come this close and not win and have to come back and wait 12 months and be lucky enough to do it again, it's unbearable.
bit help people trying
I've always had enough people around me that I've come to know a little bit about it. We're trying to do as many things as we can to help the process.
carrie chance gets good group guard players point situation time whatever
Any time like you have a really good point guard like they do, you have a chance to have a really good team. Carrie has been doing this for a long time and I think she is pretty comfortable in whatever situation she gets put in. She has a really good group of players that are pretty versatile.
amazes box crazy drives floor game guys key plays stepped watch
She'll make plays that are just really key without being in the box score. She's one of those guys at the end of the game, you look and you say, 'What did Will do?' Well, if you weren't at the game and you didn't watch it, you don't know what Will did. And that's Will. And that's always been Will from Day 1 that she's stepped on the floor at Connecticut. She drives you crazy with what she could do and then she amazes you with what she actually does.
final happened happy hard last ncaa opportunity win worst
I'm happy for these kids. The worst thing that could have happened is for them not to get to the final with an opportunity to win a championship. After what happened last week, that would have been really really hard for them going into the NCAA Tournament.
basketball certain next philosophy
Your philosophy in basketball will get you to a certain point. After that, you need individuals to take you to the next step.
finish grab
I think Barbara, Ann and Will are going to really grab it and say I want this to finish right. I think they are and that?s going to go a long way.
hard kids last minutes people played points team unselfish wants
(Duffy) should get 40 points if she played the way she did in the last 10 minutes. She's just one of those unselfish kids who wants to get the other people on her team the ball. She showed in the last 10 minutes how hard she is to defend.
excited last possibilities season
I'm more excited about the possibilities going into this season than I was last year,
afraid consequences great seniors suffer unless willing
There's some seniors that would be afraid to take that drive. You can't become great unless you're willing to suffer the consequences if it doesn't go in. You've just got to know it's going in.
difficult hopefully longer point reflect
I think sometimes these things should be done when you're no longer coaching, (when) you're at a point where you can look back and reflect on all that you've done. I think while you're still doing it and while you feel like there's still more to do, it's very difficult to look back. So hopefully it's not the end for me.