UConn Trivia

[ndmb]

I was looking through the media guide, and I found what I thought would be an interesting question that I don't think I would have guessed the answer to.

Without looking it up, what are the three programs have the most wins against Geno Auriemma (note, not the program as a whole)?

 

[ursusminor]

I'm gonna guess Notre Dame, Rutgers, and some Big East team that regularly beat them in the late 80's and early 90's.
Very tempting to say Tennessee, but I don't know that they played often enough.

 

[Forty_four]

Guessing, tenn, Stanford and Rutgers

 

[rjuconn]

Is one Providence?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

I don't think its Rutgers. Didn't play "enough" and win "enough" of them, even though we did well for a number of years.

I think Tennessee is a possibility and Notre Dame, and the other an old BE team such as BC? Providence? et al. I didn't follow WBB before '94, so I have no idea who was good in that BE vintage. I do get the distinction, as against the program are probably all old BE teams.

 

[Sonny44]

Villanova?

 

[ndmb]

You guys got em all. Villanova and Notre Dame have both gotten the better of Geno 11 times, and Providence 10.

 

[Vowelguy]

Geno is 13-7 against Tennessee.

 

[Phil]

Good question. I thought about Providence but dismissed it. I knew Providence had UConn number for years; Doris Burke talked about penciling in a win when looking at the schedule, but I thought that was mainly pre-Geno. I had forgotten that it extended into the Geno era.

 

[rjuconn]

On a similar vein...which AAC program will first rise up to challenge UConn? Not including those about to leave (Louisville and Rutgers).

 

[UcMiami]

On a similar vein...which AAC program will first rise up to challenge UConn? Not including those about to leave (Louisville and Rutgers).

I would say USF is the closest at the moment but whether they can take the next step and really challenge ...

 

[VAUConnFan]

Villanova, Providence, Notre Dame