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Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the UConn Huskies women's basketball team.He holds the record for most wins (1,217) and highest winning percentage (.883) among college coaches with a minimum of 10 seasons, any level, men's or women's.
This is a list of college women's basketball coaches by number of career wins. The list includes coaches with at least 600 wins at the NCAA, [1] AIAW and NAIA [2] levels. Geno Auriemma, head coach of the UConn Huskies since 1985, is at the top of the list with 1,217 career wins.
On the UConn side is Geno Auriemma, who has won eleven of the last twenty-four NCAA women's tournaments, four at the expense of Summitt in the finals. A media firebrand in the heart of ESPN country, Auriemma has become the most accomplished coach in the last decade, which included a record-breaking 111-game winning streak which began in the ...
Geno Auriemma seemed to find the right pieces with a freshman class that included Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Brianna Banks and Kiah Stokes. Mosqueda-Lewis was another State Farm/WBCA High School Player of the Year for UConn, [ 55 ] Banks was a highly rated point guard, [ 56 ] and Stokes, a 6'3 post player, was highly ranked as well.
The Huskies, led by Hall of Fame head coach Geno Auriemma in his 11th season at UConn, played their home games at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion and were members of the Big East Conference. UConn finished their regular season with a record of 27–3, including 17–1 in the Big East to win the conference regular season championship.
The Geno Auriemma Award, known through the 2023–24 college basketball season as the United States Basketball Writers Association National Coach of the Year Award, is an annual award presented by the United States Basketball Writers Association to the top NCAA Division I women's basketball head coach since the 1989–90 season.
The 2010–11 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2010–2011 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Huskies were coached by Geno Auriemma, and played their home games at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and on campus at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut.
The 2009–10 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2009–2010 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Huskies were coached by Geno Auriemma, as the Huskies played their home games at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the XL Center located in Hartford, Connecticut, and on campus at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut.