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women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma signed a five-year extension that will once again make him the sport’s highest-paid coach—and increases the potential buyout should he choose to jump to the surging WNBA.

• The new deal, which Sportico obtained via a records request, is worth a total of $18.7 million in base pay, starting at $3.34 million next year and ending at $4.14 million in 2028-29.

Auriemma’s previous contract, signed in 2021, was set to pay him $3.1 million this upcoming year.

The extension pushes him past LSU’s Kim Mulkey ($3.25 million) and South Carolina’s Dawn Staley ($3.2 million) as the sport’s highest-paid coach.