UConn's Geno Auriemma misses win over FSU due to illness
UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma missed the Huskies' 85-77 win over Florida State on Sunday afternoon after he began feeling sick following morning shootaround.
Out of an abundance of caution, UConn said shortly before tipoff, he was not with the team for the contest.
Associate head coach Chris Dailey served as head coach in his stead and improved to 14-0 as acting head coach.
The Huskies (7-2) have had a bad run of injuries and illnesses to start the 2022-23 season; in addition to 2020-21 national player of the year Paige Bueckers (ACL tear) and freshman Ice Brady (dislocated patella) being ruled out for the season, four other players have missed time through nine games. While graduate student Dorka Juhász and junior Nika Mühl both returned and started Sunday after missing seven games and one game, respectively, sophomore Azzi Fudd, who was an early player of the year candidate, remains sidelined because of a right knee injury.
Juhász had 15 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 blocks. Mühl added 6 points, 6 rebounds and 12 assists.
Last month, there was also a scare when Dailey collapsed on the court just prior to UConn's game versus NC State. The school said she underwent tests that afternoon at a local hospital and was released shortly after.
Auriemma's mother died on Dec. 8; he coached versus Princeton that evening and then the following Sunday at Maryland.
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