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UConn women’s basketball not ‘anything close to past teams’, early start to conference play and more

It’s almost become a yearly tradition around these parts: At the beginning of the season, Geno Auriemma says his current team isn’t that good and doesn’t live up to the standards of past teams.

Here’s one example. The coach had this to say leading up to one of UConn’s exhibitions last year:

“This is a little different than how it has been the last couple years. There wasn’t a whole lot of mystery the last couple years of who was going to do what on the court. We had a pretty good sense of which kid can do this and which kid can do that and what our team can do.