It's a huge few days in women's basketball with two top six showdowns in Los Angeles over the weekend and UConn hosting a giant party in honor of its Hall of Fame coach. Top-ranked South Carolina faces fifth-ranked UCLA on Sunday, one day after third-ranked USC hosts No. 6 Notre Dame.
Both games will be nationally televised and feature some of the top young talent in the country with JuJu Watkins playing for the Trojans and Hannah Hidalgo for the Irish. The busy week gets started in Connecticut on Wednesday where Geno Auriemma will most likely break the career wins record that he currently shares with former Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer. Both have won 1,216 games.
The Huskies are bringing back more than 60 players from Auriemma's 40 years at the school for a ceremony before the No. 2 team plays Fairleigh Dickinson. Mark Campbell inherited a TCU team that went 1-17 in the Big 12 the year before he came.
Now he has the 19th-ranked Horned Frogs up to their best spot in the poll in 16 years. The team got off to a 14-0 start last season before TCU was derailed by injuries that forced the coach to have tryouts in the middle of the season so he could field a team. “Last year’s journey was unique, but I’m thankful for it.
In a 10-day window, we lost our three best players,” he said. “We had open tryouts and that group finished the year strong and had the biggest turnaround in the Power Four. The toughness and grittiness in that group, their spirit was awesome.
That group .
