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Syracuse women's head coach tired of facing UConn in March Madness

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Syracuse women's head coach Felisha Legette-Jack expressed frustration about having to face UConn frequently during March Madness.

Facing Geno Auriemma and the UConn women's basketball team in March is no easy task. Syracuse women's basketball head coach Felisha Legette-Jack is all too familiar with the unenviable matchup. Legette-Jack expressed her frustration with the NCAA Selection Committee after watching her team fall to the Huskies 98-45 in Storrs on Monday night.

"For us to do what we've done to continuously have to come to UConn, and every single school that I go to, from Buffalo to (Syracuse), it's unfair to the young people," Legette-Jack professed . "We, I thought, deserved a little more respect. " Legette-Jack has run into UConn two out of the last three seasons, where the Huskies hosted both contests.

When she was the head coach at Buffalo, her team lost to UConn in the second round of the 2019 edition of March Madness. "After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable. It's wrong.

Put us on a 10-line, whatever. But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack, because I just think we are way better than what we performed today," she said . Legette-Jack also spoke about competitive balance being compromised with the seeding patterns she has observed.