University of Connecticut women’s head basketball coach Geno Auriemma became the all-time winningest coach in NCAA history Wednesday night. The Huskies defeated Fairleigh Dickinson University 85-41. Seventy-year-old Auriemma earned his 1,216th win Friday night as his No. 2 Huskies beat No. 14 North Carolina 69-58. That matched Tara VanDerveer, who retired in …
Read More »UConn Head Coach Dan Hurley Declines Job Offer From Lakers
UConn men’s basketball head coach Dan Hurley has declined a lucrative offer to become the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Hurley will instead pursue a third consecutive national championship with the Huskies. This feat has only been achieved by the UCLA Bruins over 50 years ago. Led …
Read More »NCAA Baseball Super Regionals Are Set
NCAA Baseball Regionals finished this past weekend, with 16 teams advancing to the Super Regionals round of the tournament. The next round of action in the road to Omaha will kick off on Friday, going through until Monday. The Super 16.#RoadToOmaha pic.twitter.com/Jfz3qKM83o — NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) June 4, 2024 Matchups …
Read More »UConn Women’s Basketball Team Back In Final Four
Just a year ago, Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers sat as a spectator with a knee injury during the women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. In Monday night’s match up against Southern California, Bueckers gave it everything she had, scoring 28 points to lift UConn to an 80-73 regional final win to send them …
Read More »Clark-led Iowa Advances to NCAA Women’s Final Four With Win Against LSU
Caitlin Clark and the No. 1 seed Iowa Hawkeyes defeated the three-seeded LSU Tigers 94-87 Monday in the Elite Eight in Albany, N.Y., to advance to the NCAA Women’s Final Four. The rematch of the last year’s national championship game drew a women’s college basketball game record 9.9 million viewers …
Read More »UConn Faces USC in Women’s Elite 8
The No. 3 seed UConn Huskies face the No. 1 seed USC Trojans in the Elite 8 in Portland, O.R., Monday at 9:00 p.m. https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1774856653604577436 UConn is in the Elite 8 for the 28th time. Meanwhile, USC has made the regional final for just the seventh time in program history. …
Read More »Men’s NCAA Tournament Final Four Set
The Men’s NCAA Final Four is set. https://twitter.com/MarchMadnessMBB/status/1774586902152151489 While UConn makes its return to to the big stage, the Final Four is uncharted territory for others. Alabama will play in the national semifinal for the first time in program history, while Purdue returns to the Final Four for the first …
Read More »UConn and San Diego State Meet in the Sweet 16
In a rematch of last year’s Men’s NCAA Tournament Championship Game, the one-seeded UConn Huskies (33-3) are playing the fifth-seeded San Diego State Aztecs (26-10) in the Sweet 16. Built for the Moment Both teams are familiar with the spotlight. They have changed since last year, but they are built …
Read More »UConn’s Geno Auriemma Becomes No. 2 Winningest College Basketball Coach
The UConn women’s basketball team’s win Monday night against the Creighton Blue Jays pushed Coach Geno Auriemma into new territory. With his 1,203 career wins, he is now second in wins in Division I basketball history. Now, he attempts to chase down Stanford’s coach Tara VanDerveer. How He Got There …
Read More »No. 19 Tennessee Football Set to Host UConn in Week 10 Matchup
The Tennessee Volunteers will play host to the UConn Huskies Saturday at noon in what, at first glance, looks like a matchup that favors one side heavily. Their two seasons, thus far, have taken two different paths. Fortunately for the Huskies, none of that matters once the two teams take …
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