Geno Auriemma hilariously calls Caitlin Clark the greatest player in WBB over Paige Bueckers

Geno Auriemma doesn’t want Caitlin Clark to single handedly beat UConn in the Final Four. So what did the coach say about the Iowa Hawkeyes star?

Well, he called her the best player in the sport. To be fair, it was a respectful and joking manner since he called his own player Paige Bueckers the best.

Both UConn and Iowa beat darn good teams in USC and LSU to get to this point. Now it’s another matchup of bonafide stars on one of the biggest stages.

“It’s pretty remarkable,” Auriemma said. “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?

“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.”

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Clark put up 41 points and 12 assists in the Elite Eight win. So she can beat you multiple ways.

Heck, if anything, Auriemma has his own superhero in Bueckers, who returned from leg injuries over the last two years.

“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.”

Auriemma’s best player is going to have to go toe-to-toe with Clark in order to get to yet another national championship.

“But for Paige, this is what I live for. I live for these moments. I think she almost looks at it as they have to guard me, too,” Auriemma said. “I’m a tough matchup for them. She always tries to make it our team against their team. But I do know that she’s pretty proud full. She was pointing to her 10 rebounds. I pointed to JuJu’s 10 rebounds. She had an excuse why JuJu got 10 or why she didn’t get 15. She said she was busy locking up somebody, she didn’t get 15.

“When you have players that think like there’s nothing I can’t do, there’s nothing that escapes me, they’re just on another level. They play the game on another level. They think on a different level. They inspire everybody around them. So, yeah, today was Paige doing Paige things.”