Recruiting dried up and he had to go overseas for players. But everything was back to normal when they rejoined the Big East.
This is false. When UConn was in the AAC, Geno recruited the #1 player 3 times in 2015, 2017, and 2018. Here were the classes from 2014 to 2018:
2014: #14, #17, #31, #33
2015: #1, #6, #23
2016: #3
2017: #1, #13, #16, #29
2018: #1, #5
And the 2019/2020 team had two #1 recruits, one #2 recruit (transferred in), two #3 recruits, one #6 recruit, one #53 recruit, and a couple of others. On paper, that should be more than enough talent to get to a Final Four.
What really happened to UConn women's basketball was that other teams caught up like South Carolina and LSU as there is much better women's college basketball talent than there was 15 to 20 years ago.