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Byline: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY It is understandable if, as a casual sports fan, you see Geno Auriemma on TV during a UConn women's basketball game and think to yourself, [...]

Byline: Steve Gardner and Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY The Los Angeles Lakers are preparing to make a 'major' offer to UConn's Dan Hurley to become their coach, USA TODAY Sports [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY PORTLAND, Ore. - Geno Auriemma knows Caitlin Clark is coming for the UConn Huskies. And with that in mind, he wants to get one thing [...]

Byline: Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY Geno Auriemma has entered elite company, earning his 1,200th win when his UConn Huskies beat Seton Hall 67-34 in a Big East women's basketball [...]

Byline: Nina Mandell, USA TODAY COLUMBUS, Ohio - At the first Final Four Geno Auriemma made with Connecticut in 1991, he fielded friendly questions from locals in New Orleans, where [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY I don't think he gets enough credit for how innovative he is offensively. We've won 11 national championships and done it differently every time. But [...]

Byline: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY It's a number only a few coaches in Division I basketball have achieved, and none of them has done it at the same rate or [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz, @ByBerkowitz, USA TODAY Sports Anyone looking for evidence that Geno Auriemma might soon walk away from the women's basketball juggernaut he has created at Connecticut is going [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, @jeffzillgitt, USA TODAY Sports Every time Geno Auriemma coaches a Connecticut women's basketball game, he's expected to win. Every time. And not just win, but win big. [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, @ByErikBrady, USA TODAY Sports It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. [...]

The Connecticut women's basketball team's domination isn't sitting well with 'Boston Globe' columnist Dan Shaughnessy. He tweeted after Saturday's NCAA tournament Bridgeport Region semifinal: 'UConn Women beat Miss St. 98-38 [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, narmour@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports The Connecticut team that came out of the locker room at halftime was much different from the one that went in. 'Coach gave [...]

Byline: Erik Brady, and Steve Berkowitz, @ByErikBrady, @ByBerkowitz Kevin Ollie won one national championship for the University of Connecticut in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and his compensation immediately surpassed [...]

MOST OF ALL, CONGRATULATE YOU AND KIM ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT AND WISH YOU A WONDERFUL WEDDING à AND MANY KIDS.' Novak Djokovic, who won his fifth Australian Open title Sunday [...]

Byline: Nicole Auerbach, @NicoleAuerbach, USA TODAY Sports The first thing Shabazz Napier did after doing everything he could to lead Connecticut to the Final Four was ask his mother to [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, @DanWolken, USA TODAY Sports He had just beaten Michigan State in his head coaching debut, been the subject of a two-hour lovefest on ESPN and earned the [...]

Byline: Mark Blaudschun A new era in Connecticut men's basketball begins today when Jim Calhoun formally announces his retirement and assistant Kevin Ollie takes over with a one-year contract, a [...]

Byline: Jack Carey, USA TODAY Almost a year to the day since the beginning of one of the most memorable postseason championship runs in history, the Connecticut men's basketball team [...]

Byline: Marlen Garcia, USA TODAYAs visitors drive to Storrs exiting I-84, a large blue sign reminds them that the University of Connecticut won the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament.The postscript [...]

Byline: Steve Berkowitz The Connecticut athletic program gets more gross revenue from its football team and from subsidies than it does from its men's basketball team. And while men's basketball [...]

Byline: Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY Once -- and in many respects, maybe still -- it made no sense for the Big East to expand some 2,000 miles west to Boise [...]

Byline: Marlen Garcia At the Madrid Open on Thursday, Novak Djokovic extended his season-opening winning streak to 29 matches, the best start in men's tennis in 25 years. The Australian [...]

Byline: Reid Cherner When you get off the ride of your life, do you walk away knowing it might never get better or do you try to repeat the impossible? [...]

Butler's Matt Howard and Connecticut's Kemba Walker each entered Monday's championship game enjoying big rolls individually as well as leading their teams on double-digit winning streaks -- 14 games by [...]

Byline: Andy Gardiner INDIANAPOLIS -- Sunday's second semifinal in the women's Final Four was a homecoming of sorts for Connecticut's Kelly Faris and Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins. Both were high [...]

Byline: Marlen Garcia HOUSTON -- Butler coach Brad Stevens was asked in a Final Four news conference for the brand name of his designer eyeglasses. About an hour later, Connecticut [...]

Byline: David Leon Moore There are times when Connecticut's Kemba Walker, a 6-1 irrepressible, indefatigable dynamo of a New York City point guard, just cannot be stopped. The NCAA tournament [...]

Byline: Tom Pedulla NEW YORK -- The NCAA tournament might not seem all that daunting to Connecticut, given the path the newly crowned Big East champion and prolific guard Kemba [...]

Coach Geno Auriemma always has considered the Huskies' 88-game winning streak as not simply one surge but a combination of runs over three seasons with a changing roster and a [...]

Byline: Marlen Garcia Kemba Walker chuckles at his 30-point scoring average for the Connecticut men's basketball team. 'Averaging 30 is something I never would have dreamed about,' the 6-1 junior [...]

Byline: Kelly Whiteside NEW YORK -- Amid the NCAA investigation into recruiting violations by Connecticut's men's basketball program, the most difficult moment for coach Jim Calhoun came in April 2009, [...]

Byline: Nicole Auerbach; Mike Foss USA TODAY looks at finalists for the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the collegiate female athlete of the year. The winner, chosen by the Collegiate Women [...]

Byline: Christine Brennan Web watch Can anyone stop UConn? I don't think so. 'I'm the guy that everybody loves to hate,' UConn coach Geno Auriemma said last weekend. 'We're the [...]

Byline: Ken Davis HARTFORD -- Connecticut officials will not disclose the specific medical reason that forced men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun to take a leave of absence, but athletics director [...]

Byline: Tom Weir Eye-opener Connecticut men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun has been vilified by politicians. But the majority of the Nutmeg State is just fine with him being wealthy and [...]

Byline: Mike Lopresti As news conferences go in sports, these are not the best of times. Recent days have given us a testy Jim Calhoun, a backpedaling Alex Rodriguez, a [...]

Byline: Ken Davis Connecticut's Jim Calhoun has 774 wins, two NCAA championships and 10 Big East Conference regular-season championships and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [...]

Byline: Erik Brady Freshman guard A.J. Price was supposed to play a big role for the defending national champion University of Connecticut men's basketball team this season. Now he watches [...]