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Alexa PhilippouESPN
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Longtime UConn subordinate caput manager Chris Dailey received aesculapian attraction aft appearing to faint upon the decision of the nationalist anthem earlier the No. 5 Huskies took connected No. 10 NC State astatine the XL Center Sunday.
Dailey was helped onto a stretcher and taken disconnected the floor, waving to the assemblage arsenic she was being carried out.
Visibly shaken UConn players returned to the locker room, earlier NC State manager Wes Moore and UConn's Geno Auriemma consulted with officials. They added an other 10 minutes to the timepiece for warm-ups.
No update connected Dailey had been provided by the schoolhouse earlier tipoff. The Huskies started the crippled with the remainder of the coaching unit connected the bench: Auriemma and assistants Jamelle Elliott and Morgan Valley.
UConn has been done a trying agelong to commencement the 2022-23 season, arsenic 2020-21 nationalist subordinate of the twelvemonth Paige Bueckers is retired with a season-ending ACL teardrop and freshman Ice Brady is likewise done for the play with a dislocated patella. Sophomore Caroline Ducharme (neck stiffness) is inactive making her mode backmost to afloat health, portion graduating pupil Dorka Juhász is retired for astatine slightest 3 games with a breached thumb.
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