The seeds for the most anticipated matchup of this women’s college basketball season were planted decades earlier, in the halls of Scarsdale High School in New York, where Geno Auriemma was hot on the trail of one of the sport’s most coveted recruits. As part of his full-court press to convince her, the Connecticut coach went so far as to enlist the help of her best friend, who would one day make a name for herself in the same world as Auriemma.
Lindsay Gottlieb tried her best to convince her friend, Hilary Howard, on Connecticut, to no avail.