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Geno Auriemma is the NCAA Division 1 all-time winningest coach.
The UConn ladies’s basketball coach gained his 1,217 recreation on Wednesday, passing Stanford legend Tara VanDerveer’s historic mark. The Huskies beat Fairleigh Dickinson 85-41 to present Auriemma the file.
Forward of the sport, UConn honored the 70-year-old for teaching his fortieth season with the Huskies this 12 months.
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A goat in Gampel! 🐐
Geno Auriemma has been inducted into the worldwide order of outdated goats 😂 pic.twitter.com/2gamPYU8b8
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Geno Auriemma will get his present honoring his 40 seasons at UConn pic.twitter.com/dRqBDfTMLY
The state of Connecticut additionally honored him with a brand new highway signal.
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New highway sign up Connecticut 👏 pic.twitter.com/Yj80ClBlnr
After one other profession achievement for Auriemma, followers had excessive reward for him on social media.
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Geno Auriemma turns into the winningest coach in NCAA Division I basketball historical past, solidifying his legendary legacy.#NCAAWBB x @UConnWBB pic.twitter.com/Jr7m1ySt5P
espnW @espnW
DT and Sue Hen in the home as Coach Geno goes for the D-I all-time wins file tonight 🏀✨ pic.twitter.com/vONoev2BIK
sarah @sar_nelly
scholar part celebrating geno and cd’s historic win 🏅 pic.twitter.com/Jy5kIUHVWy
James B. Terry @terryjt1
Geno Auriemma takes up all 4 spots on the Mount Rushmore of basketball coaches. pic.twitter.com/QMtMlDCAwy
Qamar Lewis @QLovesMT
“Please inform me how Geno and CD turned one of the best teaching duo ever!!” pic.twitter.com/itLwilWYTi
🏁KG🏁 @nosoup4u_24
Geno is the 🐐 #bleedblue
Russell Steinberg @Russ_Steinberg
As soon as once more, there is no such thing as a cheap argument you may make for anybody however Geno Auriemma as the best ladies’s basketball coach of all-time.
Tim Bennis Jr @BennisJr
Congrats Coach Geno & CD!!! #UConn
Okay.BO XXV IS A CHAMPION 🗽🗽🗽 @KBO_XXV
There’ll by no means be one other Geno Auriemma. 🐐🐐🐐 pic.twitter.com/gDv2KcyWtU
Auriemma took over as UConn head coach in 1985 and shortly established himself as the most effective within the recreation. Practically 40 years later, there’s not a lot of an argument that he is not the best coach to ever do it.
He has gained 11 nationwide championships, together with 4 straight from 2013 to 2016, which was additionally the final time the Huskies gained the match. He is additionally been to 23 Closing Fours and has gained 27 convention match titles and 28 convention regular-season titles. He has been named the Naismith Coach of the 12 months eight instances, the Huge East Coach of the 12 months 12 instances and the AAC Coach of the 12 months six instances.
On his technique to 1,217 wins, he surpassed legends such because the late Pat Summitt from Tennessee, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and naturally, VanDerveer, who retired after the 2024 season.
Contemplating the entire coaches even near Auriemma are already retired and he can nonetheless maintain including to his win complete, his file goes to face for a very long time.
Nonetheless, the work is way from over for Auriemma as he is nonetheless bought an extended season forward of him. UConn is off to a 4-0 begin that features a win over No. 16 North Carolina after final 12 months’s Closing 4 exit.
The Huskies have a handful of manageable video games coming however have a troublesome December slate. They’re going to face 4 ranked groups subsequent month together with three top-10 groups in Notre Dame, Iowa State and USC.
