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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 4092903, member: 7548"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ctpost.com/uconn/article/UConn-s-2001-02-unbeaten-title-team-may-be-best-16605038.php?t=c6f37dad32&src=ctpuconn[/URL] UConn had taken the penultimate step toward perfection, crushing Tennessee 79-56 in a national semifinal before the largest crowd in women’s basketball history, and the Huskies were celebrating in the Alamodome locker room when Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt entered. “Amazing,” said Ashley Valley, among the stunned UConn players. “Everybody in there was like, ‘Oh, my god.’ ” It was March 29, 2002. Summitt’s entry and ensuing speech were unexpected, even unprecedented. With UConn coach [URL='https://www.ctinsider.com/sports/uconnwomensbasketball/geno-auriemma/']Geno Auriemma [/URL]attending a post-game press conference, Summitt asked associate head coach Chris Dailey if she could address the Huskies. [B]“You guys are everything the game should be,” Summitt told UConn players,[/B] according to her 2014 book, [I]Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective[/I]. “And you need to go on and win the whole thing.” I did not know this anecdote. Wow and alot of other quotes by present day players and coaches [/QUOTE]