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DUNCANVILLE -- Duncanville was involved in one of the most memorable losses for Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma.

The Hall of Fame coach let Tamika Catchings know about it after the former Duncanville star signed with Tennessee in November 1996. Catchings said UConn didn't even make her final four of college choices, which were Tennessee, Illinois, USC and Arkansas.

"We laugh a lot when I'm around Geno," Catchings said Wednesday in a phone call from Greenville, S.C., where she was part of the SEC Network's broadcast team for the league's postseason tournament. "Geno would always say, 'If there's one player that I'm so mad I didn't get, it's you.