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“I have been incredibly impressed with both Pheesa and Lou,” Auriemma said. “If you look around the country, who is playing better than those two? Day in and day out, we have played nine games and if you (look) around America, in the nine games who has played better than those two? Not many. They are only going to get better. This is the worst they are going to be, and that is what I keep smiling about.”
"We talked to them a lot of ‘this is why we recruited these guys and this is why you came here,’” Auriemma said. “If you look at our history and look up on that wall (of All-Americans and national players of the year), a lot of times whenever we’ve had two really good players in a class we’ve had success and that is our goal in recruiting to have at least two really good players in each class. That is why we very rarely put ourselves in a total rebuilding mode."
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UConn tandem of Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson trouble for opponents
"We talked to them a lot of ‘this is why we recruited these guys and this is why you came here,’” Auriemma said. “If you look at our history and look up on that wall (of All-Americans and national players of the year), a lot of times whenever we’ve had two really good players in a class we’ve had success and that is our goal in recruiting to have at least two really good players in each class. That is why we very rarely put ourselves in a total rebuilding mode."
and much more....
UConn tandem of Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson trouble for opponents