Ahead of the first official practice on Friday, UConn women’s basketball’s players didn’t know what to expect. While they’d all been through workouts in the summer and early fall, there was a general nervousness about the start of actual practice, even for some of the veterans on the squad.
“They (the coaching staff) told us this year is going to be completely different. It’s going to be a bloodbath, day-in and day-out,” Evina Westbrook said. “So I don’t think any of us have ever experienced this, even Christyn (Williams) and Liv (Olivia Nelson-Ododa). So we just gotta be prepared.