{"id":863244,"date":"2026-08-21T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863244\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:48:09","slug":"uconn-womens-basketball-documentary-premieres-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863244\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn women\u2019s basketball documentary premieres Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Apple TV documentary, \u201cThe Dynasty: UConn Huskies,\u201d a three-part series that reviews longtime UConn women\u2019s basketball coach Geno Auriemma\u2019s 40 years at the school will premiere Friday. The documentary is directed by Erica Sashin and Matthew Hamachek and \u201cstarts with Auriemma\u2019s arrival at the school in 1985\u2033 and culminates with the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/07\/uconn-women-get-back-to-the-mountaintop-with-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/07\/uconn-women-get-back-to-the-mountaintop-with-title\/\">2025 national championship<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2026\/08\/15\/new-apple-tv-documentary-shines-light-on-paige-bueckers-struggles-during-uconn-national-title-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2026\/08\/15\/new-apple-tv-documentary-shines-light-on-paige-bueckers-struggles-during-uconn-national-title-season\/\">HARTFORD COURANT, 8\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Each episode is over 40 minutes, with the series taking viewers \u201cthrough Auriemma\u2019s upbringing to his first years in Storrs and the Huskies\u2019 first few national championships.\u201d It explains why women\u2019s college basketball\u2019s \u201cmost iconic rivalry,\u201d UConn vs. Tennessee, \u201cblew up because of sideline tension\u201d and \u201chow hard Auriemma pushed his stars.\u201d Members of the media and former players \u201chelp narrate each episode,\u201d with interviews from Paige Bueckers, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, Sarah Strong, Shea Ralph, Rebecca Lobo and Breanna Stewart (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/uconn-womens-basketball\/article\/documentary-geno-auriemma-coaching-apple-tv-22343113.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/uconn-womens-basketball\/article\/documentary-geno-auriemma-coaching-apple-tv-22343113.php\">CT INSIDER, 8\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV documentary, \u201cThe Dynasty: UConn Huskies,\u201d a three-part series that reviews longtime UConn women\u2019s basketball coach Geno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,724,85,24353],"class_list":["post-863244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-sports","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}