Written by John Altavilla at Hartford Courant.com
In time, future generations will want to know about the man who built the castle in the cornfield, the women’s basketball program which for decades defined greatness, consistency and dedication to task.
They will look back and study his methodologies, remember the great players that passed through and raised UConn and turned it into the model others could only aspire to imitate.
Eventually, they will turn to what happened Tuesday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in the nation’s heartland. They will call it the coronation, the day the Huskies, for one and all, for the past and the present and perhaps the future, stood apart in its prominence.
Here is what they will say: The greatest senior class in the history of the game, and their architect, Geno Auriemma, did something no one had ever done before, not Pat Summitt’s Lady Vols or John Wooden’s Bruins.
