Geno Auriemma makes his feelings known as UConn HC enters 13th national championship game
Geno Auriemma and Uconn Huskies, ranked No. 2, started the national championship match against South Carolina Gamecks, ranked Sunday, on Sunday. He is one of the most experienced university basketball coaches, as he was in 12 national championship games before, and 11 of them won.
Before starting the game, Auriemma talked about what he was feeling heading to GAM:
“I think every year you are entering one of these, it is different. I think it’s more complicated in the nerves, and more nonexistent every year. Perhaps because you have seen everything that is good and I saw everything bad, but I know our team is excited to play.
“I know that these children are really pumped, and they were like the last three games playing in both games. I feel good, and I trust them and we will see where you will go.”
It was the last time it was Geno Auriemma and Uconn Huskies in the national championship match in 2022. They played South Carolina Gamecock at that time as well but they came out on the losing side. The last of their victory came in 2016 when they won the Fourth National Championship in a row.
Geno Auriemma is reflected in the Uconn victory over South Carolina earlier this season
Uconn Auriemma and Huskies coach played in South Carolina once earlier this season. The match was held on February 16, where the Huskies 87-58 team won.
Auriemma was asked if anything that his team could take from that game and bring the national championship game.
“You can take some of the things we did and that I have worked very well,” said Orima. “Some of the things we looked at and that did not succeed in a wonderful way. The things they did did not succeed because they missed the shots, not because they had no chances.
“Stay away from the end result and you realize that the level of the intensity of this game will be completely different from what it was in Colombia.”
Therefore, despite the non -balanced margin for the first match, Geno Auriemma is sure that his team does not take South Carolina lightly.
With the national championship match, both teams played two days ago in the fourth final. UCLA No. 1 UCLA 85-51 defeated, and defeated South Carolina Gamecocks No. 1 Texas 74-57 to hold the match.
