Adding salt to the wounds, Nika Muhl was ruled out the day before the game with a foot injury of her own. They were two weeks into losing top 2021 recruit Azzi Fudd to a foot issue and four days removed from 2020-21 national player of the year Paige Bueckers going down with a knee injury that would sideline her for nearly three months. MINNEAPOLIS - UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma sat at the dais in the media room in Atlanta's McCamish Pavilion, arms crossed, voice subdued and his typical charisma replaced with something unheard of for the 11-time national championship coach: helplessness and feeling defeated.Īuriemma's Huskies had just fallen to Georgia Tech 57-44, their first loss to an unranked team in nearly a decade. Women's College Basketball, UConn Huskies Season like no other could catapult UConn to most improbable of NCAA women's basketball title runs You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
