The Latest Breaking News from Geno Auriemma

MINNEAPOLIS — UConn women’s basketball has been muscled off the mountaintop. South Carolina, with its second championship in six years, looks down upon the rest of women’s basketball and does not figure to be descending any time soon.

MINNEAPOLIS — It had happened here before, at the Target Center, 27 years ago, for the UConn women’s basketball team.

The Huskies navigated an irregular season just to get to the title game, but their championship drought goes on.

Much like how they sat atop the rankings all season long, the Gamecocks dominated from start to finish Sunday to win the program’s second championship.

The 11-time champion coach has high hopes for the Huskies in the 2022–23 season.

In 37 years as coach of the Huskies, Geno Auriemma had never known defeat in the national championship game.

Geno finally has a blemish on the big stage.

Maybe, somewhere in the back of their minds, their semifinal game having been won, there was hope in the South Carolina locker room for a rematch. You know, getting a shot at Stanford, the team that knocked it from the Final Four last year.

MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe, somewhere in the back of their minds, their semifinal game having been won, there was hope in the South Carolina locker room for a rematch. You know, getting a shot at Stanford, the team that knocked it from the Final Four last year.

MINNEAPOLIS — When Minnesotans hear the phrase "Philly Tough,'' they may assume it refers to Eagles fans throwing full beers at the heads of Vikings fans before an NFC title game.

Final Four By the NumbersAt long last, the Final Four has arrived. All week we have digested the endless angles of a delicious Duke-UNC matchup, appreciated Kansas’s lights-out performance that has the Jayhawks as the last No. 1 seed standing, and played with Villanova’s lineup to see how the ...