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By DOM AMORE - HARTFORD COURANT April 2, 2022
The ultimate games, when championships are decided, are not always chess, or even checkers. They can just as often be collisions of will. And if this is how the UConn women’s challenge for a 12th national championship plays out against South Carolina in NCAA final Sunday night, it could take quadruple overtime to separate the wills of Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley. Both have won championships, neither has lost a championship game, and they share Philadelphia basketball roots — and that straight-shooting, uncompromising attitude that goes with them.
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The ultimate games, when championships are decided, are not always chess, or even checkers. They can just as often be collisions of will. And if this is how the UConn women’s challenge for a 12th national championship plays out against South Carolina in NCAA final Sunday night, it could take quadruple overtime to separate the wills of Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley. Both have won championships, neither has lost a championship game, and they share Philadelphia basketball roots — and that straight-shooting, uncompromising attitude that goes with them.
Dom Amore: South Carolina’s Dawn Staley, UConn’s Geno Auriemma both Philly-made, reaching to conquer March Madness
The ultimate games, when championships are decided, are not always chess, or even checkers. They can just as often be collisions of will. And if this is how the UConn women’s challenge for a …
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