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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Geno to be featured on Outside the Lines

UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma is going to be profiled by Mark Schwarz on ESPN's Outside the Lines beginning Sunday at 9 a.m.

Here's the release I received from ESPN

Outside the Lines to Feature Geno Auriemma
(Sunday, 9 a.m. ET, ESPN)
A young boy named Luigi Auriemma, who grew up in the tiny Italian village of Montella – “No phone, no TV, no radio, no heat, no electricity,” he recalls – sailed to America with his family in 1961. Since arriving at the University of Connecticut in 1985, Geno Auriemma has led the Huskies, who had previously won just one women’s basketball championship, to six national titles. This season, they have won by an average of almost 33 points per game while extending the longest win streak in women's basketball history. Reporter Mark Schwarz goes one-on-one with the coach, and the man, who leads the NCAA’s most powerful women’s basketball program.

“What I do (coaching women’s basketball) is hard to do. We make it look easy, and that's the only reason I ever contemplated even coaching a men's team, just to prove to everybody that, you know what? You guys aren't as smart as you think, that I could win games on any level.” – Geno Auriemma , on possibly coaching men’s basketball

“No. We'd ruin both programs (laughs). I'd go over there and screw that up, and somebody would come in here and screw this up. So why screw around with two programs (laughs)?” – Auriemma , on coaching the UConn men’s team when coach Jim Calhoun steps down

“I think if Coach K decides, 'I only want to be the Olympic coach, and I need somebody to coach at Duke, and Geno you're the guy,’ then (slapping his hand) I’m there in a minute (laughs).” – Auriemma , on what men’s program he’d consider coaching

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