Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies are set to feature in a three-part documentary series that will stream on Apple TV+. The documentary will include the 40 years of coach Auriemma’s dynasty as the Huskies’ coach. The series is set to premiere globally on August 21.
UConn legend Rebecca Lobo also talked about Geno’s legacy over the years and reflected on her legendary career. She spoke about her relationship with the Huskies. She also talked about Paige Bueckers, whom she regards highly.
“At the time, I just thought this is amazing. We won a championship. I didn’t know that there was going to be 11 more. That almost 30 years later, Paige Bueckers was going to be winning her first and sort of walking in the same path that I had walked 30 years before,” Lobo said (3:28).
She was asked about how much she has impacted the young UConn stars as a mentor.
She answered, “I don’t know how much I’ve helped them. I do know that I’m certainly proud of sort of where I fall in the lineage of it all. that I was the first women’s player to have the number retired at Uconn will always mean a lot to me. That I was part of that first team to win a championship for UConn means a lot to me.” (3:12)
She also said that she was super proud of Geno Auriemma, Chris Daley, and everyone at UConn for building the program in the right way.
After struggling with injuries and missing a lot of games in her career, Paige Bueckers finally won the NCAA championship in her final season of the college basketball career. Lobo likened her career with Paige’s also because of how special her journey was. Apart from the NCAA title, she holds the program record highest career scoring average (19.9 points per game) and most points scored in the NCAA Tournament games (477).
Rebecca Lobo Names One Of Geno Auriemma’s Greatest Strengths As A Coach
Geno talked about the student athletes joining the Huskies. He said that even though there are tremendous coaches and programs in the country, the culture at UConn is second to none. After this, Lobo revealed what, according to her, makes Auriemma one of the greatest coaches in the history of basketball.
“I think one of his great strengths is his ability to communicate and relate to people that include 18 to 22 year old young women who are kind of learning who they are and finding themselves. He’s incredible at getting players and people to understand that there’s more that they can give, even if they don’t think that there is. That’s why you’re never going to see again what he’s built on the women’s college basketball level. You’re never going to see 12 national championships, 25 Final Fours, 1,400 or whatever it is, plus wins. And as those numbers continue to grow, it’s just not going to happen again,” Lobo said, heaping praise on her former coach Auriemma (4:55).
She further credited Geno with the success of former Huskies in the WNBA as well as outside of it. She claimed that, after all, it is his legacy that the players he coached have found immense achievements in whatever they have done.
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