Tuesday 2/17: Dinner is in the oven and I have a few minutes to to about Sunday's Events at Gampel Pavilion. First and foremost, Geno Auriemma has set the bar for the future. If you're an All American before your Senior Year, you'll be honored sometime during your senior year. So unless Tina Charles gets named a 1st Team All American this season, Maya Moore will be next Pre-Graduate Husky to join the Huskies of Honor.
As for Renee's reaction ? Priceless...exactly what you'd hope for a kid who had no idea the day was hers. Justly deserved and weird at the same time looking up at that at practice. But it's just more amunition to get a 6th banner up in Storrs.
The win over Pitt was about as good a game as UConn has played ALL season. They came out the aggressor, stiffled the Panthers on the defensive side and beat the 19th ranked team in the country by 53. And it just wasn't the starters who played well. It was a total team effort. I don't think I've ever heard Chris Dailey have so little to say afterwards. But with this group, there is always something to work on.
Tomorrow, the Huskies take the bus ride over to the Rhode Island Capital to play the Friars of Providence at Alumni Hall. This is the first meeting there since 2003 as the last two trips have come Downtown at the Dunkin Donuts Center. It promises to be a cozy setting and perhaps a pro UConn Crowd as the kids are on vacation this week. The Friars are dealing with a devastating 57-55 loss to Georgetown Saturday where they had the game in control with 6 minutes to go up 7. They wouldn't score again and turned it over 7 times as Shanice Fuller won it on a layup at the buzzer for the Hoyas. So, if it wasn't enough the #1 team was paying a visit, they had to deal with that. No one said that Phil Seymour's job would be easy getting this team headed in the right direction.
Our coverage from the 3rd floor at Alumni Hall begins Tomorrow at 6:30 after Joe & Sportstalk Express. See you on the radio !!
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