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 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Geno Auriemma figured Connecticut would have to play ugly to win Friday night. After all, his Huskies were playing Hartford, coached by his former UConn All-American Jennifer Rizzotti, a scrappy, tenacious point guard.
The fifth-ranked Huskies stumbled and fumbled their way through most of the first half, but rebounded with crisp uptempo play and pressure defense in the second half for a 62-36 win over the Hawks. They also got their Hall of Fame coach win No. 599.
"Sometime in a game like that the only thing that's going to turn it around is putting on some sort of pressure," said Auriemma, who will go for win No. 600 on Sunday against Sacred Heart. "The only way you can get into pressure is to make regular shots. When we started doing that, things started to go the way we wanted them to go."
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