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As part of the postgame celebration of win No. 1,000 for head coach Geno Auriemma and his associate head coach Dailey, several members of the 1985-86 Huskies -- their first team -- were introduced to the sellout crowd. Among the players returning to the state was Jennifer Weideman.
"She came from France and that's pretty impressive," Dailey said. "I don't know if I would have come all that way.
"When I think of Jen Weideman, we had to explain to her who John Wooden was. So we've come a long way from that first year."
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"One of the things about this is program is that it's bigger than you," UConn forward Azura Stevens added. "Every player that comes into this program feels that responsibility to carry on what has been done here. You don't want to be that player or team that brings things down. You want to carry on the legacy and the tradition that's here. There is so much history."
"Samuelson, who entered the game shooting 84.1 percent for her career and 85.7 percent for the season from the foul line, missed both ends of a two-shot foul for the first time in her career with 6:57 remaining. Her next free throw will be No. 200 of her career ... Nurse made the 200th 3-pointer of her career in the second quarter, the 12th UConn player to reach that plateau. "I didn't know that," Nurse said with a smile.
Auriemma's first team gets better with age
"She came from France and that's pretty impressive," Dailey said. "I don't know if I would have come all that way.
"When I think of Jen Weideman, we had to explain to her who John Wooden was. So we've come a long way from that first year."
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"One of the things about this is program is that it's bigger than you," UConn forward Azura Stevens added. "Every player that comes into this program feels that responsibility to carry on what has been done here. You don't want to be that player or team that brings things down. You want to carry on the legacy and the tradition that's here. There is so much history."
"Samuelson, who entered the game shooting 84.1 percent for her career and 85.7 percent for the season from the foul line, missed both ends of a two-shot foul for the first time in her career with 6:57 remaining. Her next free throw will be No. 200 of her career ... Nurse made the 200th 3-pointer of her career in the second quarter, the 12th UConn player to reach that plateau. "I didn't know that," Nurse said with a smile.
Auriemma's first team gets better with age
