The UConn women’s basketball team’s struggles in big games are becoming a concerning pattern after an 80-76 upset by rival Tennessee.

UConn women's basketball's post play has been an issue all year, but it fell into a slump against rival Tennessee in the Huskies' loss Thursday in Knoxville.

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.