UConn Ladies Are Perfect. Again.
- Author: Min-Q Kim
- Posted on: Thursday April 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- Filed under: sports, women's college basketball, uconn, university of connecticut, stanford, maya moore, geno auriemma, ncaa, exclusive
Confetti!
Remember when we said that Coach K's Duke was the best basketball program in the land? And who could argue? Well, Geno Auriemma and the Lady Huskies of UConn might have an argument. Tuesday night, they captured the NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship, defeating Stanford to cap off their second consecutive perfect season. That's two seasons in a row in which they lost a grand total of zero games. Their winning streak currently stands at 78 games. Wow.
Leading up to the final game, Connecticut had been mopping the floor with their opponents, averaging double-digit wins all season and throughout the tournament. This is a team that beat the No. 11-ranked team in the country by a score of 90 - 50. But at halftime of the most important game of the year, the seemingly unbeatable juggernaut was losing 20 - 12. Those twelve points constituted the lowest scoring total in the school's history.
But the second half was a different story, prompting Player of the Year, All-American, All-everything Maya Moore to say of her team: "Just no fear." Moore is just in her junior season, so she'll be coming back next year. Which is all to say: this winning streak has no end in sight.
Maya Moore: Jordan-esque.
For those who are wondering, Coach Auriemma says he has no interest in coaching the men. I'd say he has it pretty good right now. His success in the women's game has him sitting on a veritable empire, according to the Baltimore Sun:
You can buy Geno Auriemma wines, eat Geno Auriemma pasta sauce, and have a meal at his Fast Break restaurant. (For all of you fellow travelers on Interstate 95, his brand may soon adorn the rest stops in Connecticut, too.) And what would an American success story be without a book? To read how way he built UConn into the nation's best women's basketball program, check out Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection, an autobiography written with Jackie MacMullen. It sits on my parents' bookshelf back in Connecticut.
"I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man," he seemed to say.
Stanford put up a good fight, but came up short.
#1 UConn. No argument here.
All photos by Getty Images.
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