All season long, Geno Auriemma has drawn parallels between this year’s UConn squad and the Huskies’ 1988-89 team. Both featured seven-player freshman classes and each made program history in the Big East Tournament — the ‘88-89 team won the program’s first conference crown while this year’s iteration captured its first since re-joining.
Another similarity that the current Huskies have to the 1988-89 team is that they’ll have to play at least a portion of their postseason games without Auriemma. In 1989, the Huskies’ head coach was suspended for the Big East Tournament after a scheduling error put UConn over the allowed number of games.