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Geno Auriemma adopts new mantra for UConn: ‘Shut the (bleep) up and win games’

HARTFORD, Conn. — Geno Auriemma held a discussion with the UConn women’s basketball team on Tuesday morning in which he invoked a lesson he learned from Svetlana Abrosimova, who played for the Huskies from 1997 to 2001.

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UConn’s Geno Auriemma Offers Positive Update on Standout Guard Paige Bueckers

The Huskies coach provided an update on the star guard.

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Larry Stone: Why this could be a watershed moment for women's college basketball

SEATTLE — It was a great weekend for women's basketball in just about every way, writ large and small. Maybe even a watershed moment, but we'll have to wait and see about that.

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Let’s Talk About All of Those Awful Foul Calls in the Women’s Title Game

Officiating did not cost Iowa the championship, but the refs should have called the game much differently.

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Dan Hurley seeks advice on playing in cavernous NRG Stadium, which hosted 2011 lowest-scoring title performance

STORRS, Conn. — The UConn men’s basketball program’s third national title, in 2011, came after what many remember as one of the worst national championship games in the history of the tournament. Three-seeded UConn beat No. 8 seed Butler, 53-41, after the Bulldogs put together a record-low scoring performance.

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Dawn Staley could coach men’s basketball, but she doesn’t want to. And that’s awesome.

South Carolina, and growing women's college basketball, is her mountain.

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Dom Amore: Dynasty done? Don’t bet on it; UConn women will be back.

STORRS, Conn. — Players filed in and out of the Werth Family Center on Tuesday for exit interviews with Geno Auriemma and his staff, the traditional post mortem to the basketball season. Frank conversations about the future were certainly on the agenda.

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Mike Jensen: Sorry Temple fans, Dawn Staley is on higher ground chasing history at South Carolina

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Let’s get this out of the way. Dawn Staley, pride of North Philly, is a fairly transcendent figure right now, beyond her own sport, maybe beyond sports entirely.

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Difficult ending to a difficult season: UConn women lose for first time in Sweet 16 since 2005

SEATTLE — The last time the UConn women’s basketball team traveled out West for a regional was the last time the Huskies didn’t make it to the Final Four.

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Ohio State vs. UConn photo gallery

Check out some of the best photos of Ohio State women's basketball's upset of No. 2 seed UConn. #GoBucks

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UConn women see postseason streak end with 73-61 loss to Ohio State in Sweet 16

SEATTLE — The most decorated streak in women’s college basketball has come to a close.

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Ohio State women’s basketball vs. UConn: How to watch, stream the game

Ohio State has a tough task ahead as they prepare to take on perennial power UConn. #GoBucks

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Five things to know about Ohio State, Sweet 16 matchup in store for UConn women

When the NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed on March 12, head coach Geno Auriemma had a feeling UConn women’s basketball would end up facing No. 3 seed Ohio State.

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Dom Amore: Pressure to win ever-present for UConn women, but Geno Auriemma isn’t walking away

ROCKY HILL, Conn. – As has been well chronicled, this has been a tough year for Geno Auriemma, personally and, by UConn women’s basketball standards, at least, professionally.

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Geno Auriemma airs out frustrations with UConn women: ‘The players ain’t what they used to be, and the coaching ain’t either’

STORRS, Conn. — Sitting in on UConn women’s basketball’s postgame press conference following an uninspiring win over Xavier to cap off the regular season, it would’ve been hard to tell that the Huskies had just won the Big East regular season championship.

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‘It’s not sustainable’: How everything caught up to No. 4 UConn women in loss to St. John’s and where the Huskies go from here

HARTFORD, Conn. — Women’s basketball fans across the country may have been shocked to see No. 4 UConn upset by St. John’s on Tuesday night, but head coach Geno Auriemma wasn’t. Just like he wasn’t surprised when the Huskies fell to Marquette on the road two weeks ago.

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No. 4 UConn falls to Marquette, 59-52, loses back-to-back games for first time since 1993

The streak is over.

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Dawn Staley ‘sick’ of physicality remarks about South Carolina, responds to Geno Auriemma criticism

COLUMBIA, S.C. — UConn head coach Geno Auriemma made remarks after Sunday’s loss to South Carolina about the officiating, with those comments including undertones of criticism of the Gamecocks’ style of play. On Tuesday, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley responded.

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Dawn Staley on Geno Auriemma Criticism About Play Style: ‘I’m Sick of It’

The Gamecocks women’s basketball coach is fed up with the disrespect toward her program.

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No. 5 UConn continues to dominate rivalry with Tennessee, secures 84-67 victory

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The modern era of the greatest rivalry in women’s college basketball is firmly in the hands of one side.

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UConn's Geno Auriemma Sounds Off on Officiating

The Huskies renewed one of college basketball's most storied rivalries Thursday in Knoxville.

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Dom Amore: UConn-Tennessee means history for Geno Auriemma, while his players stay in the moment

HARTFORD, Conn. — Geno Auriemma gathered his players this week and tried to explain the history behind what is about to happen. When UConn and Tennessee play in women’s basketball, it is a tradition like no other.

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Despite slow start, No. 5 UConn routs Butler, 79-39

STORRS, Conn. — Another game, another short-handed victory for the UConn women’s basketball team.

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Recharged UConn coach Geno Auriemma opens up after a month of grief and sickness, talks about finding a new perspective

HARTFORD, Conn. — Geno Auriemma was a curious kid growing up. The UConn women’s head coach is now an 11-time national champion and Hall of Famer, but back then he used to work alongside older Italian men, helping the stonemasons and bricklayers and carpenters as they went about their days.…

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Coach Geno Auriemma rejoins UConn women’s basketball team, to be on sidelines at St. John’s

HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn women’s basketball will have head coach Geno Auriemma back on the sidelines when it faces St. John’s on Wednesday night.

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