It’s easy to get lost in the numbers.
One thousand two hundred seventeen wins. Eleven national championships. Twenty-three Final Fours. Six undefeated seasons. One hundred eleven wins in a row.
Individually, these milestones are unlikely to be matched. Collectively, they are impossible to duplicate.
UConn‘s Geno Auriemma broke the NCAA Division I record for coaching victories in men’s and women’s basketball on Wednesday, a 85-41 win over Fairleigh Dickinson marking his 1,217th and moving him past former Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer.
But the number to focus on is 160. That is how many Huskies have played for coach Geno Auriemma. One hundred sixty women stepped onto UConn’s campus as 18-year-old kids and had their lives changed forever.
There is a bond among the 160, among players of different generations, even those who have never met. Because we have the shared life…
