Emily Adams

4 days ago | courant.com | Emily Adams

The Connecticut Sun earned their first win of the Rachid Meziane era on Friday night with a 94-86 victory over the New York Liberty, and though both sides were shorthanded in the preseason matchup, it was clear that the pieces of Meziane’s system are quickly coming together. The Sun put up just 59 points in their first preseason game against the Seattle Storm and lost that matchup by 20, so Friday night’s offensive production was a massive improvement.

5 days ago | sacbee.com | Emily Adams

Former UConn women's basketball star Paige Bueckers has only gotten a taste of WNBA physicality less than two weeks into her first training camp with the Dallas Wings. Though she's already feeling the challenge of battling professionals for the first time, the rookie guard is no stranger to competing against bigger and stronger players thanks to her experiences in college.

6 days ago | courant.com | Emily Adams

Former UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers has only gotten a taste of WNBA physicality less than two week into her first training camp with the Dallas Wings. Though she’s already feeling the challenge of battling professionals for the first time, the rookie guard is no stranger to competing against bigger and stronger players thanks to her experiences in college.

1 week ago | courant.com | Emily Adams

UNCASVILLE — Connecticut Sun center Kariata Diaby set foot in the United States for the first time in her life last Thursday, and the jet lag hadn’t even begun to wear off just three days later when she took the court for her WNBA debut. Diaby, who is from the West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire, has played overseas in the French Ligue Feminine (LFB) since 2018 and currently competes for 15-time league champion Bourges.

1 week ago | courant.com | Emily Adams

Chris Taylor, the Chief Development Officer at the New York Stock Exchange, arrived at UConn as a freshman in 1985, the same year Geno Auriemma was hired to lead the Huskies’ women’s basketball team. At that time the program had had a single winning season, and Taylor said you could count the number of games he attended on “one finger.”Four decades later, Auriemma is the winningest coach in college basketball history and Taylor is a superfan.