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Auriemma: Summitt not honest about ending rivalry

Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma says Tennessee coach Pat Summitt isn't being honest about the Volunteers' decision to end the universities' yearly basketball series.

Auriemma said he blames Summitt for ending the series, which annually matched the nation's most storied women's basketball programs.

"I understand that she can't say publicly why she made her decision because if she did she would be put in the position of needing to back it up," Auriemma said in a story published Monday on The Hartford Courant's Web site. "There are a lot of unanswered questions out there," Auriemma said. "But my feeling all along has ...

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