"There's probably an illegal screen call that you could make on every single possession. I just know that there were three or four of them called on us and I don't think there were any called on them."
- Geno Auriemma
Jana El Alfy gets emotional talking about Paige Bueckers, who she says she will miss so much at UConn:
"I've never met a person that cares more...she's been my literal sister, my mom, my dad, my family. She's been my role model."
Geno Auriemma gives his thoughts on the high number of players in the NCAA women's transfer portal:
"If you can't play for me, you can't play for us - you can't play anywhere at this level. Those 850 players in the portal? 300 of them are not going to find a school to go to"
"Everybody can make a big deal of that one single play, but not one single play wins a basketball game or loses a basketball game. I feel like there were a lot of mistakes that I made that could've prevented that play from even being that big."
- Paige Bueckers
Geno Auriemma shouts out the women reporters at his press conference:
"This is the most women I've ever seen at a press conference since I started this 40 years ago and I'm just really, really proud of you all."
"We didn't care if Zach (Edey) took 25, 28 shots to get 30, 35 points. This whole gameplan was: no Smith, no Loyer, no Gillis, no Jones. Keep that collective group under 18, 20 points as a group, they had no chance to win no matter how well Zach played."
- Dan Hurley
"Honestly, still in a little bit of shock. It's all a little overwhelming. I was really just here to watch Paige get drafted and I'm so happy for her. It's been an unreal night."
- Kaitlyn Chen
"Your support has never wavered and we are so, so grateful for that."
An emotional Azzi Fudd addresses the Gampel Pavilion crowd at UConn's national championship rally:
Lindsay Gottlieb shares that Geno Auriemma texted her two days after USC beat UConn in December:
"As much as this hurts for our kids, how do you not have respect and root for a team that had to figure some things out, too, along the way and has battled injuries?"
"The world woke up to Luka getting traded to the Lakers, so crazier things have happened"
@ChelseaSherrod asks Paige Bueckers about her hair during today's game