HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma laughs as he recalls a greeting he received from another coach during last year’s Final Four.
“Hey, congratulations. You guys had a nice year,” the coach told Auriemma.
A nice year? UConn was about to win its seventh national title, and 78th consecutive game. But to many UConn followers, that was considered “a nice year.”
“That’s kind of where we are,” Auriemma said.
Connecticut enters this season’s NCAA tournament at 32-1, the Huskies’ sixth consecutive 30-win season. They just won a 19th regular-season Big East title. They just won a 17th Big East tournament title. And they’ve won 20 straight games since having a 90-game winning streak snapped by Stanford on Dec. 30.
