UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma spoke with the media on Friday to preview Sunday’s top-10 matchup with South Carolina. Here is everything he had to say. Do you think the players understand that this is not a one-and-done game and that it’s not the end of the world if it doesn’t work out the right way?

Fair or unfair, the UConn women’s basketball team gets only a handful of chances to define its regular season. On the other side of the Werth Family Center, the men’s team gets what sometimes seems like nine lives.