UConn women’s basketball pulls together for full-team win over UCLA

After UConn women’s basketball’s historic loss to Georgia Tech on Thursday night, Geno Auriemma saw no shortage of problems with his team. He referred to his group — including himself and the coaches — as “disorganized” and “disheveled”. He lamented their poor outside shooting and lack of physicality inside.

But most of all, he saw a team — despite missing Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, Aubrey Griffin and Nika Mühl to injury — that wasn’t really acting like one.

“I told our team that you’re not really playing as a team. And you can use any excuse you want — ‘Well, we don’t have half our team.’ — and, well, that’s neither here nor there,” he said. “You can still play as a team even though you’re…