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 glad herself hit last players position
I'm glad that the realization has hit that this is it, that this is your last go-around and you've got to get things done. Right now you'd say that Will has really made a commitment to herself to being one of the better players at her position in our league.
east goal last loss monday ourselves outcome position three virginia west win
The goal is not to play Rutgers three times, the goal is to win the Big East championship. It would be disrespectful to West Virginia to think like that. We set out to get ourselves in position to win a championship and put ourselves in the same position we put ourselves in last Monday (a 48-42 loss at Rutgers) and try to make the outcome a little different.
deal generate hard position quick
They're able to do some things defensively that are hard to deal with because they're really quick at every position and they're really strong; they're really well coached. It was hard for us to really kind of generate enough to really put them away.
issue national ourselves position ready season sure win
Right now, my issue is recruiting, and getting ready for the season and making sure that we put ourselves in position to win a national championship.
beyond certainly commitment herself players position possibilities realm seems
Right now, it seems like Will has made a commitment to herself to be one of the better players at her position in our league. And certainly it's not beyond the realm of possibilities for will. If you think about it, she's got all the ingredients.
whatever
Her Achilles' is a little tight. She stretches it; she does whatever she has to do.
chalk lousy run
Chalk it up to lousy preparation. We can't run a play.
holding hope thinking work
I keep thinking that it's going to work out. I keep holding out hope that it's going to work out.
areas ball fact game help point road shot supposed thinking turn win
You don't go in thinking how many can we win by and that's not the point of the game. The point of the game is if we do what we're supposed to do, we're going to win. But as you look at the game, you try to find areas where you know down the road are going to help you. The fact that we didn't turn the ball over (is good). We, for long stretches, got the right shot at the right time. We executed some things pretty well.
backed corner danger east known past plays seen team
I don't know which team we're going to see: the team that we've known in the past that plays really well or the one we haven't seen before that's backed into a corner and in danger of not making the Big East tournament.
gang good players post
You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.
couple
I?d like to do enough to kind of get her winded, so I would think a couple possessions would probably do it.
allowed athletic defense difficult inside move outside pack physical players senior turner
Having a senior athletic enough that she can play inside and outside and can move some of their players away from the basket, not having that allowed them to pack it in. It made it difficult for us to get anything going, but at the same time, Pitt's defense and how physical they were had more to do with it than Turner not playing.
acts believing case goes good player point starting
Renee is making a real case to be the starting point guard. She makes things happen. She makes plays. She's assertive. She acts like she's a real good player and that goes a long way into believing you're a real good player.