He doesn't recall much about that Jan. 6, 1996, meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third time in 12 months his UConn Huskies faced Pat Summitt's Tennessee Lady Vols. But he remembers how electric the environment was, how there wasn't an arena of that size, with that energy, on any other college campus in the country.

Paige Bueckers and Geno Auriemma lead UConn into its historic rivalry with Tennessee. The game is in Knoxville on Thursday evening.

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