After UConn women’s basketball’s historic loss to Georgia Tech on Thursday night, Geno Auriemma saw no shortage of problems with his team. He referred to his group — including himself and the coaches — as “disorganized” and “disheveled”. He lamented their poor outside shooting and lack of physicality inside.
But most of all, he saw a team — despite missing Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, Aubrey Griffin and Nika Mühl to injury — that wasn’t really acting like one.
“I told our team that you’re not really playing as a team. And you can use any excuse you want — ‘Well, we don’t have half our team.