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The official home for audio programming from The UConn Blog, SB Nation's community for fans of the UConn Huskies.

01/11/2023

Chasing Perfection: What’s UConn’s ceiling? (Ep. 87)

On this week’s episode, we take listener questions while discussing UConn women’s basketball’s past week. We talk about the Huskies’ potential ceiling, give our picks for who might succeed Geno Auriemma one day, look ahead to St. John’s and more. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

43 min
01/03/2023

Chasing Perfection: Pieces starting to fall into place for UConn (Ep. 86)

UConn women’s basketball is starting to figure out life without Azzi Fudd. The Huskies returned from the holiday break with a resounding win over Creighton and followed it up with a mostly comfortable victory against Marquette. On this week’s episode, we discuss the team’s progress, the frontcourt’s recent play, the AP Poll, why some teams in the Big East are capping their women’s basketball programs and more. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

54 min
12/22/2022

Chasing Perfection: Heading into the holidays on a high note (Ep. 85)

UConn women’s basketball will go into the holiday break happy after wins over Florida State and Seton Hall. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Huskies’ performance, the return of Dorka Juhász, how the team is starting to figure out how to play without Azzi Fudd and more. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

40 min
12/15/2022

Chasing Perfection: UConn's most far-fetched week yet (Ep. 84)

UConn’s already strange season turned even more bizarre this past week with a tight win over Princeton that added to the already-heavy injury toll and featured one of the craziest finishes that we’ve ever seen. The shorthanded Huskies also fell to Maryland, but we explain why we’re actually encouraged by the team’s performance in the loss. We also discuss Inêsanity, the frontcourt’s standout performances, and why the new year could provide hope. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

34 min
12/02/2022

Chasing Perfection: Another trophy added to the collection (Ep. 82)

UConn women’s basketball is 5-0 on the season after taking down Duke and Iowa to win the Phil Knight Legacy in Portland over Thanksgiving weekend. On this week’s episode, we break down the wins, discuss the team’s impressive resilience, look at Azzi Fudd and Aaliyah Edwards’ dominance, preview the upcoming matchup with Notre Dame and more. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

50 min
11/16/2022

Chasing Perfection: The Azzi Fudd Era begins (Ep. 81)

UConn women’s basketball is through its first week. The Huskies are 2-0 after beating Northeastern in the opener followed by a big win over No. 3 Texas. On this week’s episode, we break down the victories, discuss Azzi Fudd’s rapid ascent to stardom (and why she’s barely scratching the surface), talk about Aubrey Griffin’s strong start and go through the other risers and fallers from the games. After that, we preview the upcoming matchup with No. 10 NC State. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

53 min
11/10/2022

Chasing Perfection: The season predictions show

The season has finally arrived! On this week’s episode, we make our predictions for UConn’s 2022-23 campaign — such as the leading scorer, number of All-Americans and whether or not the Huskies will make it back to the final four. Along with that, we discuss UConn’s surprise commitment Jana El Alfy, and the team’s exhibition vs. Kutztown. Subscribe to Chasing Perfection's new feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

58 min
11/03/2022

The UConn Football Pod: Better than Boston College

UConn had never beaten Boston College in football. Of course, BC avoided some of the better Husky teams of the FBS era but still this was a craw in the side of many UConn faithful. Still, before the season, nobody could have reasonably predicted that this horrible streak would end this year. The BC win is another in a line of successes this season. Going in, we would have been happy with three wins. UConn eclipsed that and got the elusive FBS win, a road win, and a power five win this season. The most important thing that has been proven here thus far is that Storrs is not a wasteland where college football goes to die (or be really, really bad). Moving the program down because of a few bad years was a dumb idea, and now it looks even dumber. On this episode of the pod (our first since before the Ball State game, our apologies) the crew discusses what it means to beat BC, how much further UConn can go, and what the future holds for this program after its best season since 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

40 min

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Love it but needs a tweak

04/02/2022

Mom o sobi

First, to the previous reviews complaining that it’s all about WBB, the podcast is about women's basketball. I don’t go to a NBA podcast and ask why they don’t talk about football or tennis. I appreciate that a female sport is getting its due. Second, I do love the commentary. They go in depth about a team that I love to follow. I wish there were more podcasts like this for other teams. Finally, there is one major flaw that has to be fixed. Megan needs to fix her side of the mic. She has had issues both seasons. This season she is hard to hear half the time, due to poor projection and enunciation. She does have some good insight and has way more breadth of knowledge on the WBB landscape than Daniel has. Unfortunately, her inability to communicate this has caused multiple people I know to stop listening to the podcast.
Super show

12/04/2022

jax7

I love the in-depth research and the knowledge exhibited by the two hosts. It is a fun and informative listen!
Fantastic if your a UConn WBB fan

10/21/2021

Maf07003

This podcast is fantastic for any fan of UConn women’s basketball. The coverage is thoughtful, in-depth, and has a good mix of humor!
All about the women’s team

10/09/2021

Ruger Rell 203

I’m sorry I wish they had CLEARLY stated that this is only for the WBB team. Pretty useless for me and I am THE biggest Husky fan there is. Not one iota of MBB news and that makes me upset. Podcast deleted, space made in my phone.