Geno about to win #30 for the 20th time in his 30th season

[alexrgct]

OK, my thread title might not be the clearest (and that's intentional), so let me straighten this out.

UConn's record is 29-1 this season. With the next win, the Huskies will have won #30 in 2015.

Now, this is Geno's 30th season as head WBB coach at UConn, and he's won 908 games already. So yeah, he averages 30+ wins as it is; who cares about getting to #30 now? Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? Winning 30 games a season is commonplace for him.

And here's the other point: it took him a long time to get the 30X30 average. As it happens, this season will mark the 20th 30-win season in UConn history. Geno certainly didn't start by averaging 30 wins a season. He inherited a program that had only one winning season at all in 11 tries. His first season (1985-86) finished at 12-15, and his next at 14-13. subsequently, he got Kerry Bascom and started winning 20+. However, his first 30-win season was in 1993-94, when he went 30-3. From there, he's won at least 30 games 18 times, bringing his average up with each campaign. Only two seasons were aberrations: 1998-99 and 2004-05, when UConn won 29 and 25 respectively.

In short, Geno has had 10 seasons when he was unable to coach his kids to 30 victories. That being said, he's more than made up for it with 19 30-plus win seasons.

And now it's about to be the 20th 30-win season for Geno and UConn. Let's just hope he coaches the Huskies to 38 wins, in fact, thereby pushing his per-season average up all the more...in addition to winning a 10th national championship, of course...

 

[MilfordHusky]

I think he can get to 30 this year. Let's hope he gets to 38!

I think this will be 10 seasons in a row with 30+. I believe that is unprecedented, as would be his 8th Final Four in a row. If we have a #23 in the starting lineup, it must mean that we go to the Final Four. Maya and Kaleena are both great players overall and among the very best post-season players ever.

 

[Buzzyboy]

OK, my thread title might not be the clearest (and that's intentional), so let me straighten this out.

UConn's record is 29-1 this season. With the next win, the Huskies will have won #30 in 2015.

Now, this is Geno's 30th season as head WBB coach at UConn, and he's won 908 games already. So yeah, he averages 30+ wins as it is; who cares about getting to #30 now? Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? Winning 30 games a season is commonplace for him.

And here's the other point: it took him a long time to get the 30X30 average. As it happens, this season will mark the 20th 30-win season in UConn history. Geno certainly didn't start by averaging 30 wins a season. He inherited a program that had only one winning season at all in 11 tries. His first season (1985-86) finished at 12-15, and his next at 14-13. subsequently, he got Kerry Bascom and started winning 20+. However, his first 30-win season was in 1993-94, when he went 30-3. From there, he's won at least 30 games 18 times, bringing his average up with each campaign. Only two seasons were aberrations: 1998-99 and 2004-05, when UConn won 29 and 25 respectively.

In short, Geno has had 10 seasons when he was unable to coach his kids to 30 victories. That being said, he's more than made up for it with 19 30-plus win seasons.

And now it's about to be the 20th 30-win season for Geno and UConn. Let's just hope he coaches the Huskies to 38 wins, in fact, thereby pushing his per-season average up all the more...in addition to winning a 10th national championship, of course...

You know what's amazing to me, not only all the stuff you've mentioned but because of the ten years of non 30 wins and in particular the first couple, where he first had a losing season and the next, where he barely had a winning season, for him to have EXCEEDED 30 wins so many times by SO MUCH to have brought his career average wins to ABOVE 30 wins per year is totally off the charts, AMAZING! The two years where UConn struggled, since 1993, when they failed to win 30 games, first 1998-99 where they fell a victory short and then that HORRIFIC year of 2004-05 where they won only 25 games are totally SHAMEFUL. Obviously Geno is and has been amazing for such a long time, it's almost boring to go through some of the statistics this program has compiled. I don't think there's a program anywhere that's comparable to this one and to see what it was before his arrival just makes him SIMPLY THE BEST! Well, "we have him and you don't"!