UConn Women's Basketball Coach Auriemma Tests Positive for COVID-19

In the final stretch of a long pandemic winter, Geno Auriemma — the storied architect of UConn women's basketball — found himself caught in one of the cruelest gaps of the vaccination era: protected enough to avoid serious illness, but not yet fully shielded when a positive COVID-19 test arrived nine days before his immunity would be complete. His absence from the NCAA Tournament in San Antonio became a quiet parable about the patience a pandemic demands, even of those who have done everything right.