The Huskies clinched a tie for their 17th Big East regular season championship tonight with a 74-47 victory over Villanova. Of course, there was no champagne flying around the locker room or t-shirts and hats given out.
Kalana Greene, who entered the postgame media room clutching her left elbow after striking it on a door en route, might have had the line of the year regarding the tie for the title.
She was asked what’s better tying for the Big East championship or hitting your elbow on the door?
“Hitting my elbow with the door, definitely,’’ she said.
The Huskies stand just two wins shy of recording their fifth undefeated regular season (1994-95, 1996-97, 2001-02, 2002-03). Geno is giving the team the day off Wednesday before returning to practice Thursday to make a final push toward games against Seton Hall Saturday on Senior Night at the XL Center and at Rutgers in the season finale Monday.
Geno doesn’t like talking about things like undefeated seasons. But it was part of his postgame remarks to the team in the locker room tonight.
“I don’t like to bring up things that you can’t reach out and grab,’’ Geno said. “And talking about things that are down the road is not the way I do things. Before today, we just talked about today, a game that gives us an opportunity to do something we’ve tried to do since September. Tomorrow it’s going to be about that we clinched a tie. And I don’t think anybody in our locker room is doing any celebrations for ties. So we talked about what’s next. And what’s next is Saturday and Monday and what those two games mean. It’s right there now. They can feel it. They can sense it. And it’s a tangible thing. And I wanted them to think about that tomorrow on their day off and then come back Thursday ready to put in five days of hard work because there’s something that we can accomplish during those five days that puts them up there with some of the great teams that we’ve had.’’
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