The UConn women’s basketball crew will spend this time making ready for a problem.
The Huskies should get life Caitlin Clark and the top-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes in the event that they wish to succeed in the NCAA Category I girls’s basketball match name recreation. UConn’s longtime head basketball mentor Geno Auriemma is totally acutely aware of the difficulties that include dealing with a crew led by way of Clark, the NCAA’s all-time scorer.
Auriemma saved a related sight on Iowa’s Elite 8 matchup with the LSU Tigers. Clark completed the sport with 41 issues and 12 assists to support the Hawkeyes clinch a place within the Ultimate 4.
Auriemma made up our minds to bathe Clark with proclaim within the days as much as the extremely expected UConn-Iowa recreation, with the hope that the Iowa big name is not going to singlehandedly knock the Huskies out of the match.
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Head mentor Geno Auriemma of the UConn Huskies speaks with Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes following the Candy 16 spherical of the NCAA Womens Basketball Event on the Alamodome on March 27, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Pictures)
Even though Auriemma now famously didn’t engage Clark when she used to be in highschool, the mythical girls’s school basketball mentor gave the impression to be doing the whole thing he may just to ban her from having any remaining motivation for Friday’s Final Four recreation.
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“It’s pretty remarkable,” Auriemma stated then UConn defeated USC to clinch a place within the match semifinals. “Next weekend should be just as much fun as this weekend. Yeah, I hope Caitlin Clark had a personal agenda against LSU. I know there’s nothing personal between me and her. I don’t need to be seeing her drop 50 on us next weekend, you know?”
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates all the way through the second one part in opposition to the LSU Tigers within the Elite 8 spherical of the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event at MVP Enviornment on April 1, 2024, in Albany, Unutilized York. (Andy Lyons/Getty Pictures)
Even though Auriemma lately declared that Paige Bueckers used to be the “best player in America,” he jokingly reversed route and bestowed the glory on Clark.
“I love her. I think she’s the best player. Forget I ever said Paige is the best player in the country. I think she’s the best player of all time. I don’t know whoever said, that I said, that Paige is the best player in the country.”
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Auriemma did direct a few of his proclaim towards Bueckers and USC’s JuJu Watkins. Bueckers completed UConn’s Elite 8 recreation with 28 issues. The UConn girls’s basketball program has now complex to 23 Ultimate Fours.
Paige Bueckers of the Connecticut Huskies all the way through the second one part in opposition to the USC Trojans within the Elite 8 spherical of the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event at Moda Heart on April 1, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. (Steph Chambers/Getty Pictures)
“Well, Paige always wants to be superhuman,” Auriemma stated. “You can’t aspire to be that, but she tries her damnedest to be superhuman. Today she was playing against somebody who plays like they’re superhuman. I think that was probably the toughest matchup that any of those guards had throughout the entire season – maybe since they’ve gotten to Connecticut. I think JuJu is probably as difficult a matchup as there is, or has been, for our players.”
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Iowa is a two and part level favourite over UConn.
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