GamecockCentral.com offers in-depth & insider coverage of South Carolina Gamecocks football, recruiting, baseball, basketball. News, rosters, schedules, scores, message boards, rankings, stats, polls. Despite tightened budgets, there is a spending spree in womenâs college basketball and South Carolina could be next in line to write a check. On May 21 UConn announced it had agreed to a contract extension with Geno Auriemma. It was an unusual Friday afternoon news dump - those are normally reserved for bad news, not extending a Hall of Fame coach. The extension, which goes until 2025 with options for up to two additional seasons, plus a guarantee of an athletics department job if he wants it, is viewed as the contract that will lead into 67-year old Auriemmaâs eventual retirement.