UConn's Auriemma Implies Trump's Immigration Policies are a Personal Foul

STORRS, CT — University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma won No. 98 in a row in the Huskies' latest winning streak and then took another shot at Donald Trump.

This time, it was a few comments on Trump's immigration restrictions reported by The Washington Post after Tuesday's game in Cincinnati.

Auriemma flashed back to a household learning English with parents who came to America from Italy.

He then said Trump's immigration policies pave, "a bad road we’re traveling on."

See the full Post story on his latest rhetorical dunk over Trump here.

He told he told WCPO’s Keenan Singleton on Tuesday that he remembers a house with no running water, no electricity and no telephone and the flashback to the late 1950s and 1960s were on his mind when the subject of the United States banning immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries comes up.

Auriemma has dissed Trump a few times over the past few months.

In August, Auriemma threw a social, verbal shot over Trump's bow in an interview at the Rio Olympics.

It began with a question on whether the U.S. basketball dominance so far is good for the game. In his role as the UConn women's coach, he gets similar questions with 11 national titles under his belt.

His response included a comment on the agenda of the then-Republican presidential candidate.

"We live in that Trumpian era where it’s OK to be sexist and degrade people that are good, just because they’re the opposite sex," Auriemma said. "We are what we are. We’re never going to apologize for being that good. We’re never going to apologize for setting a standard that other people aspire to achieve."

See the full story here.

In November, Auriemma said he was "shocked" that Trump won the presidential election.

He said the result was an "anti-vote."

See that story here.

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