BASKETBALL : VOTE GOES TO UCONN WOMEN.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The UConn women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team and head coach Geno Auriemma Geno Auriemma (born March 23, 1954 in Montella, Italy) is an Italian-American basketball coach, best known as the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, in which capacity Auriemma has led the Huskies to five National Collegiate Athletic are slightly more popular than the men's team and coach Jim Calhoun James A. Calhoun (born May 10, 1942 in Braintree, Massachusetts) is the head coach of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball team. He has won two national championships, the 1999 and 2004 NCAA titles, as well as the 1988 NIT championship. , a poll released Thursday shows. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed in the Quinnipiac College Poll said they prefer watching the women play on television, while 28 percent gave the nod to the men. Nineteen percent said they enjoy watching both teams equally. However, more people followed the men in the postseason, with 72 percent saying they watched men's tournament play and 67 percent the women's. In separate questions, 75 percent of the respondents said they were fans of the women's team, and 67 percent said they were fans of the men's team. Auriemma received a slightly higher favorable rating than Calhoun, with 69 percent saying they had a favorable view of Auriemma, and 61 percent expressing the same view of Calhoun. The poll began last Friday, the same day the men's team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. Calipari honored: Massachusetts coach John Calipari, after leading the Minutemen to their first Final Four, will receive the 1996 Sears Division I Coach of the Year award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Calipari will receive the award today in New York Today in New York is WNBC-TV's pre-Today newscast, also post-Today on weekends, airing from 5 AM to 7 AM weekdays with the local news cut ins being branded as such. . |
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