Sue Bird to become third UConn women’s basketball jersey retired ahead of Huskies’ game vs. DePaul
STORRS — The first time Geno Auriemma met with Sue Bird in his office on campus, the thing he remembers most is how nervous the star point guard was. UConn women’s basketball, as Auriemma put it, “wasn’t what UConn is today” in the late 1990s when Bird was emerging as a high school superstar. The Huskies only had the 1995 national championship to their name, so Auriemma said the coaching staff…














