STORRS, Conn. — Geno Auriemma wants his players to feel the embarrassment. He wants them to read the headlines from one of the program’s most painful moments in history, when on Monday night, No. 3 Oregon clobbered No. 4 UConn, 74-56, resulting in the worst loss ever at Gampel Pavilion.
After the slaughter, Auriemma was asked what he told his players in the locker room. UConn had previously lost by 17 points twice at its on-campus home—to Iowa in 1990 and to Syracuse in 1992—but that was before UConn was UConn and before any of the current players on this roster were born.