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UConn Huskies give coach Geno Auriemma five-year contract extension through 2025

The UConn Huskies have given women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma a five-year contract extension through April, 2025, Athletics Director David Benedict announced on Friday.

The extension is retroactive to April 2020, and can be extended for two additional one-year periods by mutual agreement.

Auriemma will receive a base salary of $600,000 per year and additional compensation for speaking, consulting and media obligations of $2.2 million for the 2020-21 season, which increases by $100,000 each year through the term of the contract. His contract can be extended for two additional one-year periods by mutual agreement.

"Geno Auriemma has meant so much to the University of Connecticut, and to our entire state, for the last 36 years," Benedict said.