The Huskies will be a different team this summer. A recruiting class that analysts have ranked in the top 10 in the country will join a strong returning core, barring decisions to transfer or turn pro. And there might be opportunities to add a player or two when transfers, de-commits or reclassifications...More
There are similarities between UConn and Colorado, opponents in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. Like the Huskies, the Buffaloes had to regroup and bounce back from a difficult 2014-15 season. After three consecutive tournament appearances, Colorado missed both the NCAA and the NIT last season,...
It's the time of year to look back, and not necessarily fondly. If the Huskies don't win the AAC Tournament and secure its automatic berth, or make a run of some length in Orlando this week, they will be sweating out Selection Sunday. This is an improvement over last March, when they were not even...
TAMPA, Fla. – It's another late afternoon, long after most of his classmates have left Tampa Prep, and Juwan Durham is going through his daily paces. Running, jogging, shooting — all gingerly as he slowly makes his left knee strong again. It's all in a day's work for Durham, another day closer...
STORRS — Conor Griffin's family had not seen him smile much, not in a long time. Each day fighting back from a traumatic brain injury was a struggle. Then one day last May, walking through Westfarms mall, Conor lit up and ran to him, pointing. "You're Rodney Purvis," he screamed when he saw his favorite...
MEMPHIS – Twenty years ago this month, a baby-faced Josh Pastner stared at the world from the pages of Sport magazine, under the headline "Boy Scout." "He was just a tremendous kid," Jim Calhoun recalled. "He loved the game. He got into high-level talent evaluation real early." Pastner, at 18,...
The basketball season has reached a critical stage for UConn. The Huskies have home games against Georgetown on Saturday and Cincinnati Thursday and, if they are going to put themselves in NCAA Tournament shape, they probably need both. "Georgetown is solid, but that's one you've got to have on...
The basketball season has essentially reached the halfway mark. UConn has played 15 games and has 16 to go before the end of the regular season and start of the American Athletic Conference Tournament in Orlando on March 10. There has been more good than bad, as the 11-4 record indicates. There...
NEW ORLEANS — The Huskies are on a two-game tour, bridging out-of-conference play with the start of the American Athletic Conference schedule. And quite a dichotomy, it is. UConn outlasted Texas in Austin on Tuesday night, with nearly 14,000 people filling the cavernous Frank Erwin Center with...