Red Storm UConn Upset
St Johns beat UConn last week at Storrs for a huge upset. They have gone on to beat a good WVa team and on Saturday they crushed Villanova on senior night at Carnesecca. They play #12 Georgetown tonight in their final Big East game of the regular season. I'm sure nobody wants to play them in the Big East Tournament... dangerous team.
NEW YORK (WTW) — St. John's coach Kim Barnes Arico's phone hasn't stop buzzing.
It's been 48 hours since the Red Storm's thrilling 57-56 upset victory over then-No. 2 Connecticut on Saturday night ended the Huskies' 99-game home winning streak and the texts keep coming.
"I had 100 texts waiting for me when I got on the bus and they just haven't stopped," Barnes Arico said. One was from Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma saying he was proud of her. "It just goes to show how much of a class act he is," Barnes Arico said.
The team enjoyed its 2-hour bus ride home from Storrs, singing and dancing all the way back to New York.
"I'm the first to say let's focus on the next game, but after this one I was like lets enjoy tonight," said Barnes Arico, who became the school's winningest women's basketball coach earlier this month. "You never get to do that so much with the kids. They were taking pictures, passing the phones around watching the highlights. I'm kind of glad it was away, because if it was home we probably wouldn't have gotten to enjoy it together like that."
The victory was Barnes Arico's first over UConn in 10 tries and ended the Red Storm's 27-game losing skid to the Huskies that dated to 1993. Finally beating Connecticut will give her a reprieve from her toughest critic -- and biggest fan -- 10-year old son Trevor. He's been reciting the score of his mom's first loss to UConn, an 87-46 drubbing in 2003, for years. Now he's got a new one to remember -- 57-56.
Trevor missed the monumental win, which was decided on Shenneika Smith's 3-pointer with 8 seconds left, as he was in New York watching the Harlem Globetrotters. He was all smiles when Barnes Arico recounted the victory over the phone to him on the bus ride home. The win, which also ended UConn's 261-game home winning streak against non-ranked opponents, has created a buzz around the Red Storm, who jumped back into the Top 25 at No. 20 on Monday.
Barnes Arico and the players have been inundated with media requests over the last 48 hours. "We definitely have enjoyed this one," Barnes Arico said. "I told the kids in the locker room after the game that they will always remember this. Not many teams have won here." In fact, the Red Storm became just the fifth team since 1993 to win in Storrs, joining Rutgers, Tennessee, Georgia and Notre Dame. St. John's assistant coach Megan Duffy was a star player on that Irish team, which beat UConn in 2005. Duffy's squad ended the Huskies' 55-game winning streak at Gampel. A year earlier Notre Dame stopped UConn's 121-game winning streak against unranked opponents, topping the Huskies in South Bend.
NEW YORK (WTW) — St. John's coach Kim Barnes Arico's phone hasn't stop buzzing.
It's been 48 hours since the Red Storm's thrilling 57-56 upset victory over then-No. 2 Connecticut on Saturday night ended the Huskies' 99-game home winning streak and the texts keep coming.
"I had 100 texts waiting for me when I got on the bus and they just haven't stopped," Barnes Arico said. One was from Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma saying he was proud of her. "It just goes to show how much of a class act he is," Barnes Arico said.
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The victory was Barnes Arico's first over UConn in 10 tries and ended the Red Storm's 27-game losing skid to the Huskies that dated to 1993. Finally beating Connecticut will give her a reprieve from her toughest critic -- and biggest fan -- 10-year old son Trevor. He's been reciting the score of his mom's first loss to UConn, an 87-46 drubbing in 2003, for years. Now he's got a new one to remember -- 57-56.
Trevor missed the monumental win, which was decided on Shenneika Smith's 3-pointer with 8 seconds left, as he was in New York watching the Harlem Globetrotters. He was all smiles when Barnes Arico recounted the victory over the phone to him on the bus ride home. The win, which also ended UConn's 261-game home winning streak against non-ranked opponents, has created a buzz around the Red Storm, who jumped back into the Top 25 at No. 20 on Monday.
Barnes Arico and the players have been inundated with media requests over the last 48 hours. "We definitely have enjoyed this one," Barnes Arico said. "I told the kids in the locker room after the game that they will always remember this. Not many teams have won here." In fact, the Red Storm became just the fifth team since 1993 to win in Storrs, joining Rutgers, Tennessee, Georgia and Notre Dame. St. John's assistant coach Megan Duffy was a star player on that Irish team, which beat UConn in 2005. Duffy's squad ended the Huskies' 55-game winning streak at Gampel. A year earlier Notre Dame stopped UConn's 121-game winning streak against unranked opponents, topping the Huskies in South Bend.
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