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Jeff Jacobs: 2 different paths lead to 1 special Senior Night for UConn’s Nurse, Williams

Martes 27 de Febrero del 2018

Jeff Jacobs: 2 different paths lead to 1 special Senior Night for UConn’s Nurse, Williams

STORRS - The hugs came easy on this Senior Night, as easy as the baskets over the final 40 minutes to a tenth perfect regular season. Kia Nurse and Gabby Williams hugged their UConn teammates. They hugged their families who had arrived from Canada and from Nevada. In pre-game ceremonies, punctuated by a scoreboard video set to the song "Just the Two of Us," they hugged their coach Geno Auriemma. It seemed so natural. It was so natural. It wasn't that way in 2014. "She was weird," Nurse said of t

STORRS - The hugs came easy on this Senior Night, as easy as the baskets over the final 40 minutes to a tenth perfect regular season. Kia Nurse and Gabby Williams hugged their UConn teammates. They hugged their families who had arrived from Canada and from Nevada. In pre-game ceremonies, punctuated by a scoreboard video set to the song "Just the Two of Us," they hugged their coach Geno Auriemma. It seemed so natural. It was so natural. It wasn't that way in 2014. "She was weird," Nurse said of t