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• Geno (given name), including a list of people with the name
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• Geno's Steaks, a restaurant in Philadelphia
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Eugene "Geno" Smith (born October 10, 1990) is an American football quarterback. He currently plays for the West Virginia Mountaineers in his junior year. He was the starter at West Virginia for the 2010-2011 season, and is the starter for the 2011-2012 season.

In his freshman year at West Virginia University, Smith completed 32 of 49 passes for 309 yards, throwing one touchdown and one interception, and rushing for 7 yards on 17 attempts as the backup to starting quarterback Jarrett Brown. In his sophomore year, Smith completed 241 of 372 passes for 2763 yards, throwing 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and rushing for -32 yards on 106 attempts in his first year as the starting quarterback.^[1]

Collegiate career[link]

Freshman season[link]

Geno Smith saw some action his freshman year, being the backup behind senior Jarrett Brown. His first snap in a regular season game came against Auburn University, where he completed 5 of 8 passes for 50 yards and one interception. He would see action again against Syracuse, Marshall, Louisville, and in the Gator Bowl against Florida State. He finished his freshman season with an 81.1 quarterback rating.^[2]

Sophomore season[link]

Geno Smith got his first start in the season opener against Coastal Carolina. He completed 20 of 27 passes for 216 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. He led his team to a 31-0 victory over the Chanticleers.^[3]

With the Mountaineers down 21-6 against in-state rival, Marshall University, Geno Smith led his team to a 4th quarter comeback victory. Smith led the first drive from the WVU 4 yard line. With help from senior running back Noel Devine, the Mountaineers cut Marshall's lead to 8 points. After the WVU defense stopped Marshall, a punt put the Mountaineers near their own end zone again, starting from the 2 yard line. After completing 9 of 13 passes and scrambling for 20 yards, Smith found tight end Will Johnson in the corner of the endzone for a touchdown. With Marshall still leading 21-19, Bill Stewart elected to go for the two-point conversion. Smith completed a pass to wide receiver Jock Sanders in the back of the end zone for a two-point conversion. The Mountaineers went on to win the game in overtime by a score of 24-21. Smith finished the game completing 32 of 45 passes for 316 yards and one touchdown. He rushed for 13 yards on 14 attempts. After two games, Smith lead the Big East in passing yards and passing efficiency.^[4]

In a 31-17 victory over Maryland, Smith completed 19 of 29 pass attempts for 268 passing yards and four touchdowns. Two of his touchdowns were to Tavon Austin, and two were to Stedman Bailey.^[4] Smith won his first Big East Offensive Player of the Week for this performance.

In WVU's first meeting ever with LSU, the Mountaineers lost at Tiger Stadium by a score of 20-14. Smith completed 14 of 29 pass attempts for 119 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. He rushed for 10 yards on five attempts.^[5]

Smith threw for 220 yards and ran for 19 yards in West Virginia's 49-10 win over UNLV.^[6] It was the most points WVU had scored since playing Connecticut in 2007.^[7]

In an overtime loss to Connecticut, Smith was 22 for 34, throwing for 160 yards. He had a season high of 64 rushing yards. This was the first game all season Smith did not throw a touchdown pass. The loss was the first time Connecticut had ever beaten West Virginia.^[8]

Smith tied his record for touchdowns in a game in a 37-10 win over Cincinnati, where he was 15 for 25, throwing for 174 yards, four touchdowns, and one interception. The loss came after a two game losing streak. It was the first time the Mountaineers beat Cincinnati since 2007.^[9] Smith won his second Big East Offensive Player of the Week for this performance.

Junior season[link]

With the arrival of new WVU football head coach Dana Holgorsen and a new pass based offensive system, Smith saw his passing numbers improve drastically. In the fourth game of the season against the #2 LSU Tigers, Smith set school records for completions (38), attempts (65) and passing yards (463) in the 47-21 loss on September 24.

With 372 passing yards against the Cincinnati Bearcats on November 12, Smith tied a Big East record with his seventh 300-yard game of the season. He tied the record that was set in 2007 by Brian Brohm of the Louisville Cardinals.

Set single-season school records for pass completions (291), attempts (448) and yards (3,741) on November 25 against rival Pitt Panthers. He broke the records that was held by Marc Bulger in 1998.

In West Virginia's 70-33 rout of the Clemson Tigers at the 2012 Orange Bowl Smith tied three individual bowl records: most touchdown passes (six), most touchdowns overall (seven) and total points (42).^[10] Smith's 401 yards passing broke Tom Brady's Orange Bowl record of 396 that he set in 2000. Smith, who was also the game's MVP, also became the Big East single season passing leader with 4,379 yards breaking Brian Brohm's record that he set in 2007.

Statistics[link]

Regular and postseason

Awards and honors[link]

• All-Big East Conference Second Team (2010)
• All-Big East Conference First Team (2011)
• 4x Big East Offensive Player of the Week
• 2012 Orange Bowl Most Valuable Player

References[link]

Jon Gruden

Gruden in August 2003
Personal information
Date of birth	(1963-08-17) August 17, 1963 (age 48)
Place of birth	Sandusky, Ohio
Career information
Position(s)	Head Coach Quarterback
College	Dayton
Head coaching record
Career record	95–81–0 (Regular Season) 5–4 (Postseason) 100–85–0 (Overall)
Super Bowl wins	Super Bowl XXXVII Head Coach Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Championships won	2002 Super Bowl XXXVII
Stats
Coaching stats	Pro Football Reference
Coaching stats	DatabaseFootball
Team(s) as a player
1981 1982–1984	Muskingum College University of Dayton
Team(s) as a coach/administrator
1986–1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993–1994 1995–1997 1998–2001 2002–2008	University of Tennessee (graduate assistant) Southeast Missouri State (quarterbacks coach) University of Pacific (wide receivers coach) San Francisco 49ers (offensive QC coach) University of Pittsburgh (wide receivers coach) Green Bay Packers (offensive assistant) Green Bay Packers (wide receivers coach) Philadelphia Eagles (offensive coordinator) Oakland Raiders (head coach) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (head coach)

Jon David Gruden (born August 17, 1963) is the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for seven seasons and prior to that the Oakland Raiders for four seasons. In his first year as the head coach of Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII, defeating the Raiders whom he had left at the end of the preceding season. At the time, Gruden was the youngest head coach ever to win a Super Bowl. Gruden currently serves as a color commentator on ESPN Monday Night Football.

Biography[link]

Early career[link]

Gruden attended Clay High School in South Bend, Indiana, where his father Jim Gruden served as an assistant to Dan Devine at the University of Notre Dame. Feeling he would not have a chance to play for the Fighting Irish, Jon Gruden chose not to attend Notre Dame, where he would have received free tuition as a coach's child. Instead, he attended Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. After just one year he transferred to the University of Dayton and was the back-up quarterback to Phil Nussman under coach Mike Kelly from 1982 until 1984.

Immediately after graduating with a degree in communications, Gruden started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee during the 1986 season. He found his way as the quarterbacks coach at Southeast Missouri State for two years. He then moved to the University of the Pacific in 1989 as offensive assistant as the tight ends coach, where he coached Scott Lubow who was second team All Conference. He became the wide receivers coach for the University of Pittsburgh under Paul Hackett in 1991. Walt Harris was the offensive coodinator at Tennessee, where Gruden was one of his graduate assistant coaches, and later hired him at Pacific.

Pro coaching career[link]

In 1990, Gruden's father Jim set up an interview with Mike Holmgren, who was the offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers. Gruden impressed Holmgren with his knowledge of the game for such a young man. Holmgren hired Gruden as one of the first quality control coaches in the NFL.

He quickly ascended through the ranks of NFL coaching by learning the famous West Coast offense pioneered by longtime NFL coach Bill Walsh. When Holmgren left the 49ers to become head coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1992, he took the promising young Gruden with him to become the team's wide receivers coach. After three seasons in Green Bay, Gruden moved on to become the offensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles under former Packers assistant coach Ray Rhodes. Gruden then was chosen by the owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders, Al Davis, to be the Raiders' new head coach for the 1998 season.

Oakland Raiders[link]

Under Gruden, the Raiders posted consecutive 8–8 seasons in 1998 and 1999, and leapt out of last place in the AFC West. After uniting with journeyman quarterback Rich Gannon, Gruden led the Raiders to the top of the AFC West and made the playoffs three straight seasons (the third time under Head Coach Bill Callahan). Oakland finished 12–4 in the 2000 season, the team's most successful in a decade, and its first division title since 1990, ultimately reaching the AFC Championship, where they lost 16–3 to the eventual Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens. Gannon was hurt early in the game on an ill-timed snap, and Ravens tackle Tony Siragusa was later fined $10,000 for a late hit on the play that caused the shoulder injury that knocked Gannon out of the game.

The Raiders acquired all-time leading receiver Jerry Rice prior to the 2001 season. They finished 10–6 and won a second straight AFC West title but lost their divisional-round playoff game to the eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, in a controversial game that became known as the "Tuck Rule Game." The game went into overtime and the Patriots won, 16–13.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers[link]

Gruden visited U.S. troops in Iraq during a USO tour in July 2009. Gruden (left) allowed a serviceman to wear his Super Bowl ring for this picture.

After compiling a 40–28 win-loss record (including playoffs) in four seasons with the Raiders, Gruden replaced the fired Tony Dungy as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002, via a high-stakes trade that included Tampa Bay's 2002 and 2003 first-round draft picks, 2002 and 2004 second-round draft picks, and $8 million in cash.^[1] The trade took place for a number of reasons, including Davis' desire for a more vertical passing attack rather than Gruden's horizontal pass attack, the fact that Gruden's contract would expire a year after the trade, and Davis' uncertainty over whether Gruden was worth as much money as his next contract was sure to pay him.^{[citation needed]} Gruden signed a five-year contract with the Buccaneers worth $17.5 million.^[1]

The Bucs' search had taken more than two months, and had proven to be a major embarrassment to the Buccaneer organization. Tampa Bay had expressed an interest in Gruden, but Davis had originally refused to release him from his contract. The team subsequently interviewed several other coaches and believed a deal was in place with Bill Parcells, before Parcells backed out, reportedly because his choice for General Manager, Mike Tannenbaum, told him not to accept the job because of the salary cap difficulties that Tampa Bay was about to endure. With the franchise's search floundering, the coach they wanted having only one year remaining on his deal, and the immediate hire of Dungy by the Indianapolis Colts, many fans and sports commentators began to openly question if the Bucs had made the right move by dismissing Dungy. Only a big splash hire could quiet the storm, and this may have been the primary motivation for the Bucs to give up as much as they did to acquire Gruden.

Immediately after arriving in Tampa, Gruden significantly retooled the offense with the addition of numerous free agents. His determination to fix the under-performing offense so often maligned during Dungy's tenure inspired Tampa's defense to another #1 ranking, which helped the team to a 12–4 season. Both the offense and defense hit their stride in the playoffs; the Buccaneers posted a playoff per-game point differential of 23 points per game in victory, tied with the 1992 Dallas Cowboys for the highest average playoff margin of victory by a Super Bowl winner in the free agency era. Fans were especially satisfied with a victory in the NFC Championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that had defeated Tampa Bay in the Wild Card round two years running by the combined score of 52-12, and Gruden was especially satisfied with a dominant win over his old team, the Raiders, in Super Bowl XXXVII. Despite the Super Bowl win, there were many, including players on the Buccaneers like Warren Sapp, who attributed Gruden's win primarily to the defense that coach Tony Dungy and defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin had created during Dungy's tenure with the Bucs. Gruden, for his part, publicly and graciously thanked Dungy for his contributions upon accepting the Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl XXXVII postgame ceremony.

His mantra for the 2002 season was "Pound the Rock", a reference to never giving up. Gruden even went as far as to display a large chunk of granite in the locker room, a tactic mimicked by the Jacksonville Jaguars. (Their slogan, "Keep choppin' wood", was tainted when punter Chris Hanson injured his leg on an axe brought in to accompany a large log.) Upon returning to Tampa after winning Super Bowl XXXVII, he led a capacity crowd at Raymond James Stadium in chanting the phrase. However, it seemingly disappeared from the lexicon the following year, and was not aggressively marketed or displayed on stadium video boards.

In the two years following Gruden's Super Bowl win, the Bucs went 7–9 and 5–11 respectively, implying to many Dungy supporters that Gruden had simply taken over a strong team and then driven it into the ground. However, the high draft picks sacrificed by the team to acquire Gruden, along with salary-cap issues and failed draft choices forced upon him by the now-departed Rich McKay (with whom Gruden had a bitter relationship) limited Gruden's ability to field the teams he wanted after that successful Super Bowl-winning season. With no emerging talent in the fold and no money to afford replacements, the team was decimated by injuries to many of the Super Bowl stars, including Joe Jurevicius, Greg Spires, Shelton Quarles,and (cornerback), as well as acrimony with highly-paid veterans such as Sapp, Keyshawn Johnson and Keenan McCardell.

When former Raiders general manager Bruce Allen joined the Bucs in 2004, Gruden finally had the general manager–head coach partnership he desired, and while the salary cap continued to plague the team (which spent the least money in the league between 2004 and 2009)^[2] their 2004 and 2005 drafts yielded a few impact players, including 2005 Offensive NFL Rookie of the Year Award winner Carnell "Cadillac" Williams.

Also, 2005 marked a return to the playoffs, as the Bucs' posted a surprising 11–5 record, despite the loss of starting quarterback Brian Griese and some controversial coaching decisions, including a two-point conversion in the final seconds to defeat the Washington Redskins, who would later return to Tampa and eliminate the Bucs from the wild-card round of the playoffs.

Gruden speaking to an official at Heinz Field in December 2006

In 2006, Gruden led the Buccaneers to a 4–12 season. It was his worst record as a head coach and the first time a Tampa Bay team had not won more than four games since 1991.

In an interview with Ira Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune on March 28, 2007, Bucs executive vice president Joel Glazer discussed the state of the Bucs. During the interview, Joel Glazer defended Gruden's performance, citing lost draft picks, injuries, and salary cap issues. However, he also said "Mediocrity will never be standard for the Buccaneers, but we have to move on."^[3]

In 2007, the team finally cleared itself of salary cap constraints and united Gruden with a mobile West Coast quarterback in former Pro Bowler and Grey Cup winner Jeff Garcia. The team posted a 9–7 record with five division wins (after resting starters for the final two games), despite suffering major injuries, several season-ending, to critical players like Luke Petitgout, Carnell Williams, Mike Alstott, Alex Smith, Brian Kelly, Barrett Ruud, Michael Clayton, Patrick Chukwurah, Gaines Adams and starting kick and punt returner Mark Jones. Despite this adversity, however, Gruden declared "The future is so bright around here I have to wear shades".^[4]

In 2008, Gruden was rewarded with a contract extension through the 2011 season. On November 30, Gruden earned his 100th win, against the New Orleans Saints. Going into December the Buccaneers were on pace to make the playoffs, claim a bye week and have home field advantage. However, the Buccaneers went winless in the month of December, in no small part due to a defensive collapse that saw the team give up an average of 30.75 points per game. On December 28 the Buccaneers were eliminated from making the playoffs by the Oakland Raiders, the team Gruden left for Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers ended the season with four losses in a row, and Jon Gruden was fired by the Buccaneers on January 16, 2009, after seven seasons with the team.^[5][6]

Post–Tampa Bay career[link]

Jon Gruden is now^[when?] a volunteer assistant offensive line coach at Carrollwood Day School in Tampa, Florida.^[7]Shortly after being fired from Tampa Bay, Gruden created the Fired Football Coaches Association (F.F.C.A.) The club's headquarters is in a rented office in a Tampa Bay strip mall.^[8]

Broadcasting[link]

In May 2009, Gruden was hired by ESPN to serve as a color analyst on its Monday Night Football telecasts, replacing Tony Kornheiser.^[9] He has also served as an analyst for ESPN's coverage of postseason college football games, helping to call the 2010 Rose Bowl and 2010 BCS National Championship Game on ESPN Radio and the 2011 Outback Bowl and 2011 Orange Bowl on ESPN television, and in the spring of 2012 was the focus of the series Jon Gruden's QB Camp, where Gruden went over the NFL development process with prospective NFL draftees at quarterback, including Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. He has recently signed a contract extension with ESPN, beginning in September 2012, which will lengthen his tenure with the broadcasting company for another five years.^[10]

Job speculation[link]

Gruden has been the center of job speculation at the collegiate level. In April 2009, Gruden turned down an offer to become the offensive coordinator for the University of Oregon Ducks.^[11] In 2010, Gruden spoke with the University of Miami about their head coaching job.^[12] On December 2, 2010, Gruden said that he had met with University of Miami athletic director Kirby Hocutt about the position, but that he remained committed to his affiliation with ESPN.^[13]

Head coaching record[link]

Coaching tree[link]

NFL head coaches under whom Jon Gruden has served:

• George Seifert, San Francisco 49ers (1990)
• Mike Holmgren, Green Bay Packers (1992–1994)
• Ray Rhodes, Philadelphia Eagles (1995–1997)

Assistant coaches under Jon Gruden who have become NFL head coaches:

• Bill Callahan, Oakland Raiders (2002–2003)
• Rod Marinelli, Detroit Lions (2006–2008)
• Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers (2007–present)
• Raheem Morris, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2009–2011)

Personal life[link]

Gruden is a Roman Catholic.^[15] He and his wife, Cindy, have three sons, Jon II (Deuce), Michael, and Jayson. Gruden's younger brother Jay is currently the offensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals. Jon's wife Cindy is from eastern Tennessee and graduated from the University of Tennessee, where Gruden also coached briefly in 1986.

Gruden grew up a Cleveland Browns fan.^[16]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jon Gruden

• Coaching Stats at databasefootball.com
• Jon Gruden ESPN Bio

Geno Auriemma
Auriemma in March 2008
Sport(s)	Women's college basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	University of Connecticut
Biographical details
Born	(1954-03-23) March 23, 1954 (age 58) Montella, Italy
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–current	University of Connecticut
Head coaching record
Overall	804–129 (.862)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 7 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championships (1995, 2000, 2002–2004, 2009, 2010) 19-time Big East Regular Season Champions 18-time Big East Tournament Champions
Awards Naismith Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009)[1] WBCA National Coach of the Year (2002, 2008, 2009)[2] AP Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011)[3][4] Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Hall of Fame National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006

Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954 in Montella, Italy) is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, which he has led to seven NCAA Division I national championships (in 1995, 2000, 2002–2004, 2009 and 2010). He has won six national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards.^[5] Auriemma is also the head coach of the 2009-12 United States women's national team.^[6]

He emigrated with his family to Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S. when he was seven years old,^[7].^[8] and spent the rest of his childhood there. After graduating from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 1977, Auriemma was hired as an assistant coach^[9] at Saint Joseph's University, where he worked in 1978 and 1979. He then took a two-year absence from college basketball, serving as an assistant coach at his former high school, Bishop Kenrick,^[9] before assuming an assistant coaching position with the University of Virginia Cavaliers in 1981. Auriemma became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994^[10], noting in his autobiography that he finally decided to naturalize when his UConn team was slated to tour Italy that summer and he was concerned about potential problems because he had never done any required national service.^[11]

For many years, Auriemma and his wife maintained a home Avalon, New Jersey, to be near their respective parents in the Philadelphia area.^[12]

UConn career[link]

This article may contain wording that merely promotes the subject without imparting verifiable information. Please remove or replace such wording, unless you can cite independent sources that support the characterization. (December 2010)

Before Auriemma, the Huskies had posted just one winning season in their entire history. As was true at many schools at the time, Connecticut did not have a strong commitment to women's sports. Both players and coaches had to scrape for facilities and resources. Eventually, some students wishing to form a soccer team threatened to sue the university. The Trustees went on record supporting women's sports, and the administration decided to provide more support, especially for sports with a potential for revenue, such as women's basketball. The decision to hire a new coach was part of this commitment to strengthen the women's sports at Connecticut.^[13] Auriemma was the last of a series of interviews conducted by the search staff. Most of the other candidates were highly qualified coaches, and most were female. Ironically, one of those included in the interview process was Chris Dailey, who would become Auriemma's assistant, and is currently the Associate Head Coach at UConn. Dailey was identified as the candidate likely to receive an offer if Auriemma turned down the offer.^[14]

Connecticut quickly rose to prominence after Auriemma was hired in August 1985: they finished 12–15 in Auriemma's first season, his only losing season at Connecticut. Since then, Connecticut has finished above .500 for 24 consecutive seasons, including four undefeated seasons (1994–95, 2001–02, 2008–09 and 2009–10) and 2 NCAA record streaks of 90 and 70 consecutive wins.^[15] On December 21, 2010, Auriemma led UConn to their 90th consecutive victory, one more than the all-time NCAA men's wins record of 89 held by UCLA.^[16] At end of the 2009–10 season, Auriemma's record as a head coach was 735–122, for an 85.8 winning percentage. That winning percentage is the highest among Division I active coaches.^[17] His career in Storrs also includes 15 seasons with 30 or more wins.^[18] UConn has won 7 national championships under Auriemma (1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, and 2010)^[19] and made the Final Four 13 times^[18] (1991, 1995, 1996, 2000–2004, 2008–2012). Auriemma has also guided UConn to 19 Big East regular season titles and 18 Big East Tournament titles.

The team has been especially successful on its home court in the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on the UConn campus in Storrs, Connecticut, and in the larger XL Center in Hartford; they tied an NCAA women's basketball record with 69 consecutive home wins between 2000 and 2003. That record was broken in 2011. The last home loss was to Villanova in the game that ended their 70-game winning streak. Moreover, between Auriemma's arrival and the close of the 2005 season, UCONN won 295 games versus just 31 losses. The team has set Big East Conference records for both single-game and season-long attendance.

Auriemma is also known for cultivating individual players, and the Ten multiple-All-America players—Rebecca Lobo, Jennifer Rizzotti, Kara Wolters, Nykesha Sales, Svetlana Abrosimova, Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles and Maya Moore—whom Auriemma has coached have combined to win six Naismith College Player of the Year awards, six Wade Trophies, and seven NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards. (The UConn athletics website also notes that, through 2006–07, every recruited freshman who has finished her eligibility at Storrs has graduated with a degree.)

The rivalry between the Huskies and the University of Tennessee Lady Vols has extended to Auriemma's relationship with Volunteers counterpart Pat Summitt; the two, through print and broadcast media, are often at odds. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Auriemma had slightly surpassed Summitt among active Division I coaches for career winning percentage, with Auriemma at 85.8 and Summitt at 84.1. Summitt has one more National Championship than Auriemma, however. Rumors of tension between Auriemma and men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun were widely circulated, but the two apparently reconciled after the teams won national championships, on consecutive nights, in 2004.

Pat Summitt declined to continue the yearly game in June, 2007, to the disappointment of Women's College Basketball fans, but the prospect of NCAA matchups between UConn and Tennessee will keep the rivalry alive.

Since achieving its 1st #1 ranking in the 1994–95 season, UConn under Auriemma is 186-10 when playing as the nation's #1 team. As of the end of the 2009–10 season, he had a record of 127-52 against top 25 opponents and a 57-35 record against top 10 opponents. He won his 600th game on New Year's Eve 2006, accomplishing the feat in 716 games, tying him with Phillip Kahler for the fastest women's basketball coach to reach that milestone. Auriemma won his 700th game on November 27, 2009 in 822 total games becoming the fastest head coach to that milestone in the history of college basketball at any level men or women. He is now one of eight active women's college basketball coaches to currently have 700 or more wins.^[17] Auriemma became the 6th coach in Women's basketball history to reach 800 career victories on March 6, 2012 also reaching 800 career wins faster than any coach in the history of college basketball men or women at any division level in just 928 career games. Auriemma was a member of the inaugural class (2006) of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor" recognition program.^[20]

Head coaching record[link]

-*Season in progress

Honors and other activities[link]

In 2006, Auriemma was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee.^[21][22]

During the college basketball offseason, Auriemma serves as an analyst for games of the Women's National Basketball Association broadcast on the American cable television networks ESPN and ESPN2, in which capacity he often critiques his former players. [1]

In November 2007, Auriemma was inducted^[23] into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, in a class that included Dick Vermeil, Mike Scioscia, Fred Couples, and others.

Auriemma is close friends with Saint Joseph's University basketball head coach Phil Martelli^[24] and his son, Mike Auriemma, attended and played basketball at Saint Joseph's.^[25]

Auriemma was named the USBWA National Coach of the Year in 1995, 2003, 2008 and 2009 by the United States Basketball Writers Association.^[26][27]

Auriemma served as an assistant coach to the gold medalist 2000 U.S. Olympic Team. On April 15, 2009 he was selected to lead USA Basketball Women's National Team in the 2010 FIBA World Championship in the Czech Republic and the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England.^[28]

Auriemma is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.^[29]

Auriemma was named one of the 2010 co-winners of the Big East Conference Coach of the Year, an honor he shared with Mike Carey of West Virginia University.^[30]

Auriemma won the Big East Conference Coach of the Year award for 2011. He was the outright winner this year. This is the fourth consecutive year he has won the award; in the prior three seasons he was a co-winner.^[31]

Records[link]

Auriemma is the leader among active coaches in winning percentage at .861.

Auriemma's 7 national championships is second to Pat Summitt's 8.

There have only been 6 undefeated seasons in NCAA women's college basketball. Auriemma holds 4 of these seasons (1995, 2002, 2009, 2010).

Auriemma was the quickest women's coach to reach 500 wins, doing so in his 18th season. Auriemma also holds the record for fastest coach to reach 600 wins, he is tied for the fastest to reach 700 wins and holds the record for the fastest to 800 wins by any coach at any level men or women in the history of college basketball.

Auriemma set a record of 5 consecutive trips to the Final Four.

Auriemma's 2008-2010 teams broke a record for consecutive games won in college basketball with 90, beginning after a loss to Stanford on April 6, 2008 and ending with a loss to Stanford on December 30, 2010. They topped the mark set by his 2001-03 team who had won 70 straight.

See also[link]

• List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Auriemma, G.; MacMullan, J. (2006). Geno: In pursuit of Perfection. Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-57764-2. 
• Grundy, Pamela (2005). Shattering the glass. New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-822-1. 
• Karmel, Terese (2005). Hoop Tales:UConn Huskies Women's Basketball (First ed.). Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 0-7627-3501-5. 

External links[link]

• Geno's Summer Basketball Program - The Connecticut Girls Basketball Camp
• University of Connecticut biography
• Women's Basketball Hall of Fame profile
• Basketball Hall of Fame induction announcement
• Basketball Hall of Fame profile
• Photos of Auriemma some of with his teams
• Los Angeles Times article on relationship with Calhoun