On Monday, UConn women’s basketball won its 19th Big East Tournament championship with a 73-39 drubbing of Marquette, capping off the Huskies’ best three-game stretch of the season.
As expected, none of the tournament games were particularly close, though that doesn’t mean they were useless. In fact, even Geno Auriemma, who vocally opposed holding conference tournaments this season just a month ago, was glad the Big East Tournament continued on.
“In retrospect, it ended up being great for us because we’re going into the next tournament with a better sense of who we are as a team, a better identity of who we are as a team,” he said.