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Geno Auriemma responds to Muffet McGraw’s comments about ESPN’s supposed UConn bias

UConn women’s basketball’s rivalry with Notre Dame may be over, but there’s still plenty of bad blood between Geno Auriemma and former Fighting Irish coach Muffet McGraw.

In late December, McGraw appeared on the “Off the Looking Glass Podcast” with Kate Fagan and Jessica Smetana, where the former coach stated that the Huskies had a “outsized influence” on women’s college basketball.

“UConn has done great things, and they’ve won way more than anybody else, except Tennessee. What they’ve done has been amazing,” McGraw said. “I think people measure their team by them. When we joined the Big East, we were like, ‘We want to get to where they are.