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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2316793, member: 250"] Geno speaks some Italian to us. [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-uconn-womens-basketball-0903-20170902-story.html']UConn Women's Insider: UConn Geno Auriemma Betting Huskies' Italian Tour Will Pay Off[/URL] "Everybody had a great time," Auriemma said. "Some of [the players] came up to me and said, 'Coach this is like a once-in-a lifetime experience. I never imagined that I would do this or it would be like this.' And that's just from a growing up, cultural, life experience kind of thing." Then he got down to talking basketball. "We got to see some things that we already assumed," Auriemma said. "We were able to point out to some of our players, this is how good we can be and this is how much better some of you need to get if you want to contribute. We already knew we had four really, really good players going over there. We already knew we had four of the best players in the country." The rest of the country quakes at this I suspect: "Now we wanted to find out how many more than four that we have. And how many more than four can we think are going to be solid enough that they're going to enhance these other four. The four starters from last year also found out, if I don't get better, people are going to catch up to us. So even the four players that had amazing years last year, all found out, I got to get a lot better." [/QUOTE]