No. 5 UConn-DePaul game postponed due to lack of players
The Big East game between No. 5 UConn and DePaul on Sunday has been postponed because the Huskies don't have enough healthy players available to suit up, the conference said Friday. UConn (12-2) does not have the required seven healthy scholarship players to put a team on the court. The Huskies are also expected to be without head coach Geno Auriemma, who is taking time off with an undisclosed illness, the school said.
news.yahoo.comAuriemma misses UConn's game against Florida State
Geno Auriemma missed No. 9 UConn's game against Florida State on Sunday as he wasn't feeling well after the team's shootaround earlier in the day. Associate head coach Chris Dailey filled in for the Hall of Famer. It's been an emotional week for the 68-year-old Auriemma.
news.yahoo.comUConn associate coach Dailey leaves on stretcher before game
Longtime UConn associate head coach Chris Dailey fainted before the start of the No. 5 Huskies’ game against 10th-ranked North Carolina State on Sunday. As the national anthem ended, Dailey had to be held up by UConn personnel before she was laid down on the court. Dailey, who is 63, waved to the crowd and smiled as she left the court.
news.yahoo.comInjured Bueckers says she'll spend season as student coach
Injured UConn star Paige Bueckers, in one of her recent Instagram stories. “I’m head coach,” Bueckers told reporters recently. The good news for UConn fans is that Bueckers also vowed to return to college next year, rather than declaring, as she could, for the WNBA draft.
news.yahoo.comUConn to meet former conference rival UCF in second round
UConn and UCF will renew what has been a physical rivalry when the teams square off Monday night. The No. 2 seed Huskies, who routed Mercer in the opening round, are 13-0 against the No. 7 seed Knights, dating back to their days together in the American Athletic Conference, which UConn left in 2020 to rejoin the Big East.
news.yahoo.comBueckers remains UConn's biggest question for NCAA Tourney
UConn star Paige Bueckers is by all accounts physically fit again as her Huskies enter the women's NCAA Tournament looking for a 14th consecutive appearance in the Final Four and a 12th national title. The sophomore has averaged under 14 minutes a game since her return and scored 30 total points, 16 of them in the Huskies' Big East quarterfinal win over Georgetown.
news.yahoo.comFrom Nick Saban to Dawn Staley to Jay Wright, drafting the 21 best college football and basketball coaches: College Football Survivor Pod
COLLEGE FOOTBALL, USA -- How does Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few compare to Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney? LSU just wooed football coach Brian Kelly away from Notre Dame, following the plan that saw them woo women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey away from Baylor. In the end, we finished with eight football coaches, eight men’s basketball coaches and five women’s basketball coaches. This might be the only place in the country having a debate about South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley vs. Georgia football coach Kirby Smart. Subscribe at:* Apple* Spotify* Stitcher* Google PodsRecent episodes of The College Football Survivor ShowSix teams to watch this springParking lot passing game draftA college football playoff crisis?
mlive.comUConn women’s basketball team opens the postseason with something to prove in the Big East Tournament
The prelude is past, the postseason is here. The UConn women’s basketball team may not be in its familiar position, poised for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and considered the team to beat, but the Huskies are embracing their position as dangerous underdogs. “We’re a different team [than earlier in the season],” UConn senior Christyn Williams said. “I feel like a lot of teams are ...
news.yahoo.comUConn's Mir McLean leaves program, to transfer
UConn sophomore Mir McLean has left the program and will transfer, UConn coach Geno Auriemma announced Monday. McLean, a little-used reserve from Maryland, played in 27 games at UConn and averaged 2.5 points and 2.0 rebounds. A former McDonald's All-American in high school, the 5-foot-11 forward played eight minutes this season, did not score and had two rebounds. “Mir is extremely smart and athletic and she has a lot of potential,” Auriemma said.
news.yahoo.comLoaded UConn women push for program's 12th national title
UConn comes into this season ranked No. 2, having added the nation’s top recruit, guard Azzi Fudd, to a team that returns last year’s collegiate national player of the year, Paige Bueckers, and every other starter from a squad that went to it’s 13th straight Final Four.
'It's an honor': The Hall of Fame's class of 2020 enshrined
Kobe Bryant is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame now, along with contemporaries Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, headliners of a group of nine who got their delayed and long-awaited enshrinement on Saturday night, more than a year after being announced as the Hall’s Class of 2020.
UConn's Paige Bueckers is AP women's player of the year
UConn's star guard became the first freshman ever to win The Associated Press women's basketball player of the year award Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)SAN ANTONIO – Paige Bueckers is in a class all by herself. UConn's star guard became the first freshman ever to win The Associated Press women's basketball player of the year award Wednesday. “It’s amazing, surreal for people to think of me that highly and to be in that position as a freshman,” Bueckers said. But I don’t think you can.”___More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/Womenscollegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25