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UConn Huskies coach Geno Auriemma<\/a> once detailed the hardest lesson he learned as the main tactician of his program. This was one of the many things that Auriemma talked about when he was interviewed on the \u201cGot Next with Meghan & Zora\u201d show in November 2024.<\/p>\n Auriemma was asked by host Meghan McKeown how he had grown over the four decades of service in college basketball. Auriemma shared the most vital lesson he learned in his coaching career.<\/p>\n \u201cI used to think that I would be able to control more scenarios. I\u2019d be like, \u2018I need you to be this for me, and I\u2019ll make you into that. I need you to be this for me.\u2019 I realized over a period of time how little control you actually do have, and that a lot of it is just doing the best you can and crossing your fingers,\u201d Auriemma said (0:30).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Auriemma enters his 41st year at the helm of the Huskies\u2019 coaching staff in the upcoming 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n He and his UConn<\/a> squad are gunning for their 13th national championship. They won their 12th in the recently concluded campaign. The now 71-year-old is also the winningest college basketball coach of all time, both men\u2019s and women\u2019s, with 1250 wins to his name.<\/p>\n Also Read: \u201cI Keep Making the Same Mistake\u201d: When Geno Auriemma Reflected on Recruiting Missteps and UConn\u2019s Culture<\/a>Geno Auriemma says basketball is not his life<\/p>\n Later on the \u201cGot Next with Meghan & Zora\u201d episode, Geno Auriemma said basketball is not his whole life. Auriemma expounded on this by explaining how his success came with a bit of luck, and that it does not define who he truly is as a person outside of coaching.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing is putting less into the idea that basketball defines who you are. When you grow up with the game and then you get into it, and you\u2019re doing it for so long, if you\u2019re not careful, you start to think that as long as we keep winning basketball games and as long as I keep doing this, then this is who I am. I came to realize, luckily, that it has nothing to do with who I am. That\u2019s just what I do for a living. It\u2019s not my life,\u201d he shared (0:55).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Auriemma and the Huskies are coming off a 2024-25 season where they finished with a 37-3 overall record (18-0 Big East) and won the conference regular season championship<\/a> as well as the conference tournament title.<\/p>\n Read More: \u201cCan\u2019t Draw Up That Story\u201d: When Geno Auriemma Celebrated UConn\u2019s Legacy Through Players\u2019 Journeys After His 1,217th Victory<\/a><\/p>\n College Sports Network has you covered with the latest news, analysis, insights, and trending stories in football<\/a>, basketball<\/a>, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UConn Huskies coach Geno Auriemma once detailed the hardest lesson he learned as the main tactician of his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[108083,1339,104,83537,728,1317,1337,1338,10814,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-193718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-doing-the-best-you-can-and-crossing-your-fingers-when-geno-auriemma-shared-the-hardest-lesson-he-learned-about-coaching-growth","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-college-sports-network","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaabasketball","16":"tag-newsbreak","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133912755831846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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