Big East

Rutgers coach Stringer: “I won’t be coaching a team that goes to the NIT”

Video: Rutgers post-game press conference after losing to St. John’s 60-52, 02/24/10 (Windows Media)

Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer comments after St. John’s loss on the possibility of her team playing in the NIT tournament if they do not make the NCAA cut:

“We have two games left. I am not even thinking about it. I think that is a long shot at best. I think they would throw us a mercy towel if they did. I am being very honest with you because the only way we could have any kind of a conversation is if we were to do miraculous things at the BIG EAST (Tournament). Since we have not done anything at our own home, I am not willing to put my heart out there and believe that that is going to happen. I can tell you, and people have asked me, will we go

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Huskies vs. Huskies in Saturday’s highlight game when UConn hosts Northeastern

Northeastern University Huskies (0-0) vs. (1) University of Connecticut Huskies (0-0)
2 p.m. ET, Gampel Pavilion (10,167), Storrs, Connecticut
TV: CPTV Radio: WICC-AM 600, WINE-940 AM, WTIC-AM 1080 Web: www.UConnHuskies.com
Broadcasters: TV: Bob Picozzi and Meghan Culmo; Radio: Bob Joyce and Kara Wolters
Last Meeting: UConn won 96-34, Dec. 29, 1995.

Notes

UConn: Prior to the start of UConn’s home opener, they will be honored for their 2009 NCAA National Championship with the unveiling of the banner commemorating the Huskies’ sixth NCAA National Championship. Junior guard Lorin Dixon is out with a hamstring injury. Head coach Geno Auriemma needs four wins to reach 700 (696-122). Senior center Tina Charles has 995 career rebounds and needs five rebounds to become the third player in team history to reach 1,000 (Rebecca Lobo, Jamelle Elliott). Senior Kalana Greene enters her senior

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Was it unethical for the Hartford Courant to hire Geno Auriemma’s daughter?

This week the Hartford Courant women’s basketball reporter John Altavilla announced that the newspaper had hired the daughter of University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma to blog about the team. Altavilla and Alysa Auriemma have a pre-existing blogging relationship. This summer they traded questions with each other via Altavilla’s work blog and her personal blogger.com account.

Alysa, 23, began her blog “Life Beyond the Postseason” this past March with a chronicle of UConn’s postseason run and subsequent championship. Her posts provided an insightful and often comical behind-the-scenes look at the lives of UConn players, staff and her family. Readers loved her commentary and writing style. Altavilla took notice and in mid-July they began their back-and-forth Q&A’s on their blogs.

• got a feeling it’s gonna be a good good night (Life Beyond the Postseason, July 15, 2009)
• Alysa Auriemma answers the REALLY tough questions (John Altavilla’s blog, July

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