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Facing Geno Auriemma and the UConn women's basketball team in March is no easy task. Syracuse women's basketball head coach Felisha Legette-Jack is all too familiar with the unenviable matchup.
Legette-Jack expressed her frustration with the NCAA Selection Committee after watching her team fall to the Huskies 98-45 in Storrs on Monday night.
"For us to do what we've done to continuously have to come to UConn, and every single school that I go to, from Buffalo to (Syracuse), it's unfair to the young people," Legette-Jack professed. "We, I thought, deserved a little more respect."
Legette-Jack has run into UConn two out of the last three seasons, where the Huskies hosted both contests. When she was the head coach at Buffalo, her team lost to UConn in the second round of the 2019 edition of March Madness.
"After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable. It's wrong. Put us on a 10-line, whatever. But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack, because I just think we are way better than what we performed today," she said.
Legette-Jack also spoke about competitive balance being compromised with the seeding patterns she has observed.
"I just want the young people that's in my locker room to have a fighting chance, and I am grateful to be in the NCAA Tournament, from where we've come, but I think that we've earned the right to go anywhere outside of a four-hour radius," Legette-Jack stated.
The top 16 seeds of the Women's NCAA Tournament host games in the First Four, first round and second round, before contests move to neutral sites for the Sweet 16 and beyond.
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Legette-Jack expressed her frustration with the NCAA Selection Committee after watching her team fall to the Huskies 98-45 in Storrs on Monday night.
"For us to do what we've done to continuously have to come to UConn, and every single school that I go to, from Buffalo to (Syracuse), it's unfair to the young people," Legette-Jack professed. "We, I thought, deserved a little more respect."
Legette-Jack has run into UConn two out of the last three seasons, where the Huskies hosted both contests. When she was the head coach at Buffalo, her team lost to UConn in the second round of the 2019 edition of March Madness.
"After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable. It's wrong. Put us on a 10-line, whatever. But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack, because I just think we are way better than what we performed today," she said.
Legette-Jack also spoke about competitive balance being compromised with the seeding patterns she has observed.
"I just want the young people that's in my locker room to have a fighting chance, and I am grateful to be in the NCAA Tournament, from where we've come, but I think that we've earned the right to go anywhere outside of a four-hour radius," Legette-Jack stated.
The top 16 seeds of the Women's NCAA Tournament host games in the First Four, first round and second round, before contests move to neutral sites for the Sweet 16 and beyond.
Contact/Follow @College_Wire on X and @College_Wires on Threads. Like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of college sports news, notes, and opinions.
This article originally appeared on College Sports Wire: Syracuse women's basketball coach tired of playing UConn in tourney
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