Geno Auriemma, the Hall of Famer and longtime UConn women's basketball coach, achieved his 1,200th career win as UConn routed Seton Hall 67-34. Auriemma humorously likened the low-scoring game to those in the mid-80s. He credited associate head coach Chris Dailey for setting the stage for this achievement. Auriemma now joins an elite group of Division I basketball coaches with 1,200 career wins, including Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski.
🏀 Norristown native and longtime UConn women's hoops coach Geno Auriemma has exclusive company in the 1,200-win club. https://t.co/nyZ5Hvjff0
Geno Auriemma cracked a fitting ATM joke about stacking up more wins after hitting historic 1,200 wins milestone https://t.co/zFBqucROz1 https://t.co/lpNjyfxg21
Geno Auriemma becomes the third Division I men’s or women’s basketball coach with 1,200 career wins 🔥 Auriemma joins Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer (1,206 wins) and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski (1,202 wins). https://t.co/SLMAG6jVcf
Hall of Famer Geno Auriemma gets 1,200th win as UConn routs Seton Hall 67-34 https://t.co/AexyE11vB4
"That decision made every other decision possible ... by getting that one right, we set ourselves up for something like this to occur." – Auriemma on associate head coach Chris Dailey, who also won her 1,200th game with the Huskies tonight.
"It takes me back to some of the games we played in the mid 80s," Geno Auriemma jokes after a low-scoring 1,200th career win at UConn.