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It's more than a brain fart:
“I’ve said in the past we’ve had unbelievable players where it wouldn’t be good to lose going into the NCAA tournament,” Auriemma said. “With this team, those two losses at the end of the year — for the first time in my career — were really good losses for us. I may not have thought it that night, but now I really do.”
Has he forgotten the famous loss to Villanova that ended the Husskies then-new record of consecutive wins at 70? He conceded later that the loss in the BET got Connecticut's motor running again and propelled the Huskies through the NCAA's to a National Championship in 2003.
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It's more than a brain fart:
“I’ve said in the past we’ve had unbelievable players where it wouldn’t be good to lose going into the NCAA tournament,” Auriemma said. “With this team, those two losses at the end of the year — for the first time in my career — were really good losses for us. I may not have thought it that night, but now I really do.”
Has he forgotten the famous loss to Villanova that ended the Husskies then-new record of consecutive wins at 70? He conceded later that the loss in the BET got Connecticut's motor running again and propelled the Huskies through the NCAA's to a National Championship in 2003.
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