UConn women set all-time NCAA record for longest winning streak

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Geno Auriemma to ESPN interviewer (and, long ago, his very first basketball superstar) Rebecca Lobo, after the Huskies’ 89th consecutive win:

I don’t want my team to compare themselves to anyone. This stands on its own. I’m not John Wooden and this isn’t UCLA. This is Connecticut, and for us, that’s enough.

And then he grumpily gave out a Wii to someone in the crowd, live on national TV.

[Bumped. -ed.]