The UConn Women’s basketball team is light years ahead of its competition, and it isn’t even close. Guided by head coach Geno Auriemma, this UConn team won it’s fourth straight National Championship Tuesday night against a hard-pressed team in Syracuse. Geno, an 11-time Champion, has turned this program into a dynasty over the duration of his stay. Now, even NBA personnel are interested in his services.
One of the most successful basketball programs of all time at any level, UConn has received nation-wide criticism over the last few years for simply being too good. Some will say they emit a bad image for the sport, besting their competitors regularly by double digit margins. Others will disagree, responding that other teams should get better instead and reach the level of Geno’s Huskies. Nonetheless, Geno Auriemma has certainly made a name for himself. Alas, NBA executives have taken notice, and are indeed interested in bringing him aboard.
Following courtesy of Sean Deveney of Sporting News.
Auriemma has unquestionably asserted his team’s dominance over the sport. NBA executives have taken notice, and sources tell Sporting News that the feeling is mutual. “Geno’s a great coach, he knows players and he knows Xs and Os,” one source with knowledge of Auriemma’s thinking said. “I think he’d like to try the NBA eventually, either head coaching or part of a staff at first. Not tomorrow, but I think it is a matter of when and not if. Coaching is coaching, and the guy can coach.
Asked about Auriemma’s prospects as an NBA coach, one league executive said, “He’d be a plus on any staff. He knows plenty of NBA people and he knowns he’d have a role if he wanted to make that leap.”
And from Zach Lowe of ESPN.
He has said publicly he would have interest in being a high-level NBA assistant coach. https://t.co/JqPPdmkbZw
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) April 6, 2016
Geno Auriemma, a six-time Naismith College Coach of the Year award recipient, has guided UConn to repeated success over the last three decades. Since being hired in 1985, Auriemma has won eleven National Championships with the UConn Huskies. Before Geno was hired, UConn had only finished one season with a winning record in its first ten years.
