Huskies coach Geno Auriemma and Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale will help kick off Jimmy V Week Sunday night by auctioning off a tie and a handbag, respectively. Geno will auction off a Brioni tie, which is valued at $200, and Sherri will auction off a black Cole Haan handbag, which is valued at $450.
The auction will begin Sunday at 8 p.m. and close Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. Fans can make separate charitable bids on both items by logging on to www.genoscancerteam.com or www.wbca.org. The proceeds from the auction will go toward the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.
Geno will also auction off the ties he wears during each home game in February – vs. Rutgers Feb. 3; vs. Pittsburgh Feb. 15; vs. Notre Dame Feb. 22; vs. Villanova Feb. 24; and vs. Seton Hall on Senior Night Feb. 28.
By the way, Renee Montgomery and the Huskies could care less that Sunday’s matchup with Oklahoma, who fell 80-79 to North Carolina at home Sunday, could have been the first No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown at Gampel Pavilion since the 2001 Big East tournament final when the second-ranked Huskies beat No. 1 Notre Dame 78-76 in the same venue. Rankings don’t matter to the Huskies. Just wins.
Whether the Sooners rest at No. 2 or their current spot of No. 4 in the AP poll, it doesn’t matter. The Huskies will receive their first true test of the season against All-American Tina Charles and the Sooners.
“It doesn’t really matter to me,’’ Montgomery said. “They’re still going to be the same team they were. It just would have been a different ranking when they came here. You know what? They might be even better now that they lost. Once you lose you go home, you evaluate, you practice harder. So they’re probably going to be a better team than they were if they would’ve won.’’
You know how they say you learn something new every day? Well, that holds true in Utah. While talking to tonight’s color commentator Kristen Kozlowski yesterday during practice she told me that her husband played football at the Y. OK. So with me being a somewhat sheltered individual with a small-town mentality I took that to mean that her husband played football at the YMCA. We always call it the Y at home. I used to workout there as a matter of fact. But, of course, I wasn’t even close. Kristen quickly cleared up the situation by saying to the folks here the Y is short for BYU. It was just another of the many instances in my life when I felt like an absolute idiot.
In the future, any time I need a reminder as to what the Y is I can refer to the large white Y on the side of the mountains in the backdrop of the football stadium.
Rich
