After watching the semifinals and finals of the women's basketball competition at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, UConn coach Geno Auriemma arrived back in the U.S. in time for an entertaining and wide-ranging 90-minute interview with Michael Kay of the YES Network which will air on the CenterStage show at a date yet to be announced.
Auriemma dropping such nuggets as he would "walk there and give it all up" if given an opportunity to be an assistant coach under San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich; Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore and Cheryl Miller are the three best women's basketball players he has ever seen and if he needed to fight his way out of a fox hole, he would choose UConn associate head coach Chris Dailey and his brother Ferruccio.