Geno Auriemma

Geno Auriemma, who has guided Connecticut to seven NCAA women's basketball titles, doesn't think much of Mark Cuban's acknowledgment that he's already given consideration to using a second-round draft pick on Baylor star Brittney Griner. The UConn...

Mike Rice had to be fired. He repeatedly demeaned young men. He abused his position of authority. He not only violated the ideals of coaching, he ran roughshod through the boundaries of common human decency. Yet here's the thing. If ESPN "Outside the...

Brittney Griner, the All-American center for the Baylor women's basketball team, and an NBA tryout: It's the story that won't go away anytime soon. The media won't let it, not at the pinnacle of the college basketball season. This became a story when...

They won't win this one in the last minute. They won't have to. This time, the UConn women will win it in the first 39. Doris Burke, ESPN's lead analyst, had a question Saturday at the network's Final Four media conference. And it was a good one....

NEW ORLEANS -- So close. So painfully close.    When Skylar Diggins finally puts her participation in her third straight NCAA women’s basketball Final Four in perspective, the Notre Dame senior and South Bend’s finest will measure it in...

— Monday's game against No. 1 Baylor was the 959th in the UConn coaching career of Geno Auriemma. It was also his 11th against a top-ranked team, his second this season following the Huskies' 61-35 romp at Stanford on Dec. 29. Despite it all,...

HARTFORD — He warned us that this was never about Stefanie Dolson trying to beat Brittney Griner. He warned us that this was always about UConn beating Baylor, about the help Dolson would have to get from her teammates. "There won't be a bigger...

What's basketball without hope that the stars might align to make it possible for the virtually impossible to occur? They did in Oklahoma City on Sunday night when Louisville, almost a 30-point underdog, dethroned defending national champion Baylor with...

BRIDGEPORT — Saturday's Sweet 16 game was expected to be the Bridgeport Regional's restaging of a winter battle between Eastern foes, only this time along the cusp of Long Island Sound on a warm, spring day. "We were talking about how physical the...

You figured Vanderbilt's hang time in Monday's NCAA Tournament second-round game would vastly surpass that of Idaho on Saturday. To put it into geographic context, the Commodores, despite multiple injuries, seemed as distant from the Vandals as...

The first sign that normalcy had returned to UConn was tied in a Windsor knot around Geno Auriemma's neck. It was a tie, the accessory strangely excluded from Auriemma's business attire during the Big East tournament. And Saturday's was a birthday tie;...

When the history of Big East women's basketball is written it will be in the form of a novella. Even after all these years, the story is niche reading. But thankfully, the last chapter will be devoted to the last three years of conference life, the...