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The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/connecticut-huskies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UConn women's basketball</a> team will spend this week preparing for a challenge. The Huskies will have to get past <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/lsus-kim-mulkey-angel-reese-reveal-told-caitlin-clark-elite-eight-loss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caitlin Clark</a> and the top-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes if they want to reach the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament title game. UConn's longtime head basketball coach Geno Auriemma is fully aware of the difficulties that come with facing a team led by Clark, the NCAA's all-time leading scorer. Auriemma kept a close eye on Iowa's Elite Eight matchup with the LSU Tigers. Clark finished the game with 41 points and 12 assists to help the Hawkeyes clinch a spot in the Final Four. Auriemma decided to shower Clark with praise in the days leading up to the highly anticipated UConn-Iowa game, with the hope that the Iowa star will not singlehandedly knock the Huskies out of the tournament.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports" target="_blank" id="OWAf6c5c263-e13c-683a-7fc7-ddeedfa65589" rel="noopener">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM</a>Although Auriemma now famously did not recruit Clark when she was in high school, the legendary women's college basketball coach seemed to be doing everything he could to prevent her from having any extra motivation for Friday's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa-bk/march-madness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Final Four</a> game.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/uconns-paige-bueckers-best-player-america-coach-geno-auriemma-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCONN'S PAIGE BUECKERS 'BEST PLAYER IN AMERICA,' COACH GENO AURIEMMA SAYS</a>"It’s pretty remarkable," Auriemma said after UConn <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/usc-trojans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeated USC</a> to clinch a spot in the tournament semifinals. "Next weekend should be just as much fun as this weekend. Yeah, I hope Caitlin Clark had a personal agenda against LSU. I know there’s nothing personal between me and her. I don’t need to be seeing her drop 50 on us next weekend, you know?"Although Auriemma recently declared that Paige Bueckers was the "best player in America," he jokingly reversed course and bestowed the honor on Clark."I love her. I think she’s the best player. Forget I ever said Paige is the best player in the country. I think she’s the best player of all time. I don’t know whoever said, that I said, that Paige is the best player in the country."<a href="https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1775221193647456674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VIEW MOMENT ON X</a>Auriemma did direct some of his praise toward Bueckers and USC's JuJu Watkins. Bueckers finished UConn's Elite Eight game with 28 points. The UConn women's basketball program has now advanced to 23 Final Fours."Well, Paige always wants to be superhuman," Auriemma said. "You can’t aspire to be that, but she tries her damnedest to be superhuman. Today she was playing against somebody who plays like they’re superhuman. I think that was probably the toughest matchup that any of those guards had throughout the entire season – maybe since they’ve gotten to Connecticut. I think JuJu is probably as difficult a matchup as there is, or has been, for our players."Iowa is a two and half point favorite over UConn. Follow Fox News Digital’s<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSports_" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> sports coverage on X</a>, and subscribe to<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter</a>.

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content: The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/connecticut-huskies"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">UConn women's basketball</a> team will spend this
 week preparing for a challenge. The Huskies will have to get past <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/lsus-kim-mulkey-angel-reese-reveal-told-caitlin-clark-elite-eight-loss"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caitlin Clark</a> and the top-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes
 if they want to reach the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament title game.
 UConn's longtime head basketball coach Geno Auriemma is fully aware of the difficulties
 that come with facing a team led by Clark, the NCAA's all-time leading scorer. Auriemma
 kept a close eye on Iowa's Elite Eight matchup with the LSU Tigers. Clark finished
 the game with 41 points and 12 assists to help the Hawkeyes clinch a spot in the
 Final Four. Auriemma decided to shower Clark with praise in the days leading
 up to the highly anticipated UConn-Iowa game, with the hope that the Iowa star will
 not singlehandedly knock the Huskies out of the tournament.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports"
 target="_blank" id="OWAf6c5c263-e13c-683a-7fc7-ddeedfa65589" rel="noopener">CLICK
 HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM</a>Although Auriemma
 now famously did not recruit Clark when she was in high school, the legendary women's
 college basketball coach seemed to be doing everything he could to prevent her from
 having any extra motivation for Friday's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa-bk/march-madness"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Final Four</a> game.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/uconns-paige-bueckers-best-player-america-coach-geno-auriemma-says"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCONN'S PAIGE BUECKERS 'BEST PLAYER IN AMERICA,'
 COACH GENO AURIEMMA SAYS</a>"It’s pretty remarkable," Auriemma said
 after UConn <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/usc-trojans" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">defeated USC</a> to clinch a spot in the tournament semifinals. "Next
 weekend should be just as much fun as this weekend. Yeah, I hope Caitlin Clark had
 a personal agenda against LSU. I know there’s nothing personal between me and her.
 I don’t need to be seeing her drop 50 on us next weekend, you know?"Although
 Auriemma recently declared that Paige Bueckers was the "best player in America,"
 he jokingly reversed course and bestowed the honor on Clark."I love her.
 I think she’s the best player. Forget I ever said Paige is the best player in the
 country. I think she’s the best player of all time. I don’t know whoever said, that
 I said, that Paige is the best player in the country."<a href="https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1775221193647456674"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">VIEW MOMENT ON X</a>Auriemma
 did direct some of his praise toward Bueckers and USC's JuJu Watkins. Bueckers finished
 UConn's Elite Eight game with 28 points. The UConn women's basketball program has
 now advanced to 23 Final Fours."Well, Paige always wants to be superhuman,"
 Auriemma said. "You can’t aspire to be that, but she tries her damnedest to be superhuman.
 Today she was playing against somebody who plays like they’re superhuman. I think
 that was probably the toughest matchup that any of those guards had throughout the
 entire season – maybe since they’ve gotten to Connecticut. I think JuJu is probably
 as difficult a matchup as there is, or has been, for our players."Iowa is
 a two and half point favorite over UConn. Follow Fox News Digital’s<a
 href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSports_" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
 sports coverage on X</a>, and subscribe to<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter</a>.
summary: Geno Auriemma seems to be trying to get on Caitlin Clark&apos;s good side
 by jokingly saying she&apos;s the sport&apos;s best player. He previously named
 UConn&apos;s Paige Bueckers the nation&apos;s best.
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