UConn women’s basketball will take the court for its first competitive game of the season when the Division II Jefferson Rams come to Gampel Pavilion. With that comes a tendency to overreact to every little thing that happens, something head coach Geno Auriemma admits he does himself.
“We’ve had a number of exhibitions over the years that have gone really well and we’ve had a whole bunch that have gone really poorly where I’ve come out of exhibitions going ‘This is the worst team I’ve ever had.’ Neither of them are true,” he laughed.
However, that doesn’t mean these games are totally useless.