Honors and Other Activities
In 2006, Auriemma was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee.
During the college basketball offseason, Auriemma serves as an analyst for games of the Women's National Basketball Association broadcast on the American cable television networks ESPN and ESPN2, in which capacity he often critiques his former players.
In November 2007, Auriemma was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, in a class that included Dick Vermeil, Mike Scioscia, Fred Couples, and others.
Auriemma is close friends with Saint Joseph's University basketball head coach Phil Martelli and his son, Mike Auriemma, attended and played basketball at Saint Joseph's.
Auriemma was named the USBWA National Coach of the Year in 1995, 2003, 2008 and 2009 by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
Auriemma served as an assistant coach to the gold medalist 2000 U.S. Olympic Team. On April 15, 2009 he was selected to lead USA Basketball Women's National Team in the 2010 FIBA World Championship in the Czech Republic and the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England.
Auriemma is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.
Auriemma was named one of the 2010 co-winners of the Big East Conference Coach of the Year, an honor he shared with Mike Carey of West Virginia University.
Auriemma won the Big East Conference Coach of the Year award for 2011. He was the outright winner this year. This is the fourth consecutive year he has won the award; in the prior three seasons he was a co-winner.
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