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    Wednesday, May 01, 2024

    Lobo to be inducted into Hall of Fame tonight

    Rebecca Lobo

    Rebecca Lobo doesn't think much of being the first player from seven-time national champion UConn to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. To her, she's just the first of many Huskies who will eventually follow coach Geno Auriemma into the Hall.

    "I guess it just shows that I'm the oldest," Lobo said Friday.

    Auriemma became a member in 2006. Lobo, who helped lead UConn to its first national title and a perfect 35-0 season in 1995, is one of six 2010 inductees to the Hall of Fame. An exhibit honoring Lobo, Teresa Edwards, Teresa Weatherspoon, Chris Weller, Leta Andrews and Gloria Ray was unveiled Friday. The hall's 12th class will be inducted tonight.

    Lobo played a major role in building the foundation for a UConn program that has won all seven of its national titles in the last 16 years. She was the 1995 Naismith Player of the Year and remains the Huskies' all-time career leader in rebounds and blocks.

    "Probably the most memorable and meaningful part to me was my time at UConn and the national championship at UConn," Lobo said. "That was the only time in my career where I was with the same core group of players for four years, the same coaching staff for four years. I went from an 18-year-old who didn't know anything to a 21-year-old who kind of was a woman who knew what she was going to become."

    Now a women's basketball analyst and reporter for ESPN, Lobo attributed her success to Auriemma.

    "I know I wouldn't be here I wouldn't have a chance to be inducted if I had gone anywhere else and played for anybody else," she said.

    - Associated Press