UConn, Notre Dame Meet Media Before Title Game

Led by associate head coach Chris Dailey, the UConn women arrive at the Amalie Arena Monday for news conference, interviews and practice. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

By Cloe Poisson

and Michael McAndrews

Hartford Courant

April 6, 2015 12:22 PM PT

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UConn coach Geno Auriemma, Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw and their teams were available on Monday to the media for the final time before Tuesday’s national championship game.

UConn guard Kia Nurse answers a reporter’s question during a breakout interview session at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn guard Briana Pulido is interviewed in the locker room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn associate head coach Chris Dailey is interviewed by NBC Connecticut’s J.W. Stewart in the UConn locker room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame forward Brianna Turner is interviewed in the Notre Dame locker room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn head coach Geno Auriemma answers a reporter’s question about Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn guard Saniya Chong (center) reacts after winning a game of Hangman with teammates in the UConn locker room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn forward Morgan Tuck answers a reporter’s question during a breakout interview session at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

A Notre Dame player, wearing green nail polish, ties her laces while preparing for practice at the Amalie Arena Monday. The players and coaching staff all wear green nail polish to show their school spirit. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Moriah Jefferson, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis

UConn guard Moriah Jefferson and UConn forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis whisper while taking part in a news conference at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn senior forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis answers a reporter’s question about playing her last game in a UConn uniform in the NCAA Championship game during a breakout interview session at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the final game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn forward Breanna Stewart answers reporter’s questions during a breakout interview session at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Morgan Tuck, Breanna Stewart, Geno Auriemma

UConn forward Breanna Stewart answers a reporter’s question during a news conference with UConn head coach Geno Auriemma (right) and the rest of the starting lineup, including UConn forward Morgan Tuck, (left) at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

TAMPA, FL 04/06/15 Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw talks to reporters at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. CLOE POISSON|cpoisson@courant.com ORG XMIT: B584523927Z.1 (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

The mood was light at Notre Dame‘s news conference as Notre Dame guard Jewell Loyd (left) and Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw laugh at a reporter’s question at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame guard Jewell Loyd talks to a reporter during a breakout interview session at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame forward Taya Reimer horses around with Notre Dame forward Kristina Nelson in the locker room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

UConn forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis is interviewed in a breakout room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw (second from left) meets with her coaching staff to discuss Tuesday’s NCAA Championship game against UConn in the locker room at the Amalie Arena Monday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw is interviewed by the media at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the final game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame forward Brianna Turner is interviewed in a breakout room at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame guard Jewell Loyd answers a reporter’s question during a news conference with her team and coach, Muffet McGraw (right) at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw speaks at a news conference with her starters at the Amalie Arena Monday. UConn will meet Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game on Tuesday. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

In the UConn locker room UConn assistant coach Chris Daley talks with a reporter while Shea Ralph goes over video of UConn playing Notre Dame. UConn will play Notre Dame for the National Championship Tuesday. (MICHAEL McANDREWS / Hartford Courant)

Breanna Stewart takes questions from the media before the team practice Monday afternoon. UConn plays Notre Dame for the Championship Tuesday. (MICHAEL McANDREWS / Hartford Courant)

UConn Press Conferences and other activity surrounding the day before the Final Four

UConn’s Breanna Stewart takes questions from the media during an interview session at Amalia Arena in Tampa, Florida, the site of the NCAA Women’s basketball Championship to be played Tuesday. (MICHAEL McANDREWS / Hartford Courant)

UConn players Natalie Butler and Briana Pulido work on homework in the team’s lockerroom at Amalia Arena, the site of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship in Tampa, Florida. Behind are assistant coaches Chris Daley and Shea Ralph. (MICHAEL McANDREWS / Hartford Courant)

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Cloe Poisson

When I was growing up, I couldn’t wait for Life Magazine to come in the mail every week. I loved poring over the picture stories shot by their talented photojournalists. So when my best friend in high school asked me to take a photography class with her in our senior year, I instantly agreed. I bought a used Pentax camera and soon became enthralled with the magic of photography. I studied fine art photography and photojournalism at PhotoGraphics Workshop in New Canaan and the University of Bridgeport. My first job working for a weekly newspaper cultivated my love of photojournalism. For the past 27 years, I’ve worked as a staff photographer at The Courant, a paper with a rich visual tradition. My education is ongoing with each new assignment, each new technology, each challenge in the rapidly changing world of journalism. The power of the still image motivates me to regard each assignment as an opportunity to capture a compelling moment, to tell an inspiring story, and to share it with readers. Whether it’s covering a funeral for a slain police officer or a clown wedding, each photograph has the potential to move us in some way, connecting us through shared emotions and experiences.

Michael McAndrews

I graduated with a BFA degree in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1974. Two years later, I was hired by the Hartford Courant for the position of photography lab technician. Soon after, I was promoted to staff photographer. In my years at the Hartford Courant I have covered major news events and national stories and political campaigns. I have covered World Series, Final Fours, and Super Bowls. I have traveled to China to watch a Hartford surgeon teach the Chinese how to perform coronary bypass surgery. I’ve been sent to Central America and Europe. I have worked on assignment in Saudi Arabia one year after 9/11. There are stories I have spent a year or more working on. I think I’ve driven most every road in the state. I have spent a lot of time getting to know my subjects and hear their stories. I’ve seen pure joy and utter pain. I’ve seen failure and hope. I have met incredible people who inspire. I work with colleagues who are as passionate as I am.

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