UConn Blog: How Geno Built A Juggernaut

SBN's UConn Blog traces the recent history of the women's basketball empire Geno Auriemma has built up in Storrs:

The UConn machine you see now, chewing up opponents and leaving swaths of destruction in their wake, is at the pinnacle of its powers now because Geno won two of the most important recruiting battles of his career. (There's a sort of unspoken assumption among UConn women's fans that any loss is intolerable. Losing more than three or four games per year is a sin. And missing out on a national title is a failure)

Tina Charles and Maya Moore are two of the five best players to ever play at UConn. But what's lost in their utter dominance over the past two years is that, before they arrived, it seemed like Geno might struggle to dominate the basketball world as he did in the first half of the last decade.

Read the rest at The UConn Blog.