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UConn AD Optimistic About Program's Future
The Hartford CourantCROMWELL — Warde Manuel remains optimistic about the future of UConn athletics. He is, in fact, defiantly optimistic. "We are going to continue to be great," the UConn athletic director told the audience at the Middlesex County Chamber of...Tags: Basketball, Atlantic Coast Conference, College Sports, College Basketball, Cincinnati Bearcats
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Napier Key To UConn's Future Hopes
The Hartford CourantAs everyone at Gampel Pavilion watched a video tribute to a team that, on paper, had little to play for and instead gave and gave each game as if it had everything in the world to play for, Shabazz Napier began to feel the shiver of emotions. As...Tags: NBA Draft, Basketball, Providence Friars, Kevin Ollie, Roscoe Smith
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UConn Men: Ollie Has Good Shot At Coach Of Year
The Hartford CourantOn Wednesday, the Huskies will "continue writing the story," in their coach's words. They will face one more big moment, in a season in which the UConn men's basketball team will be denied the biggest moments. The Huskies will face Georgetown at...Tags: Providence Friars, Kevin Ollie, Roscoe Smith, Gampel Pavilion, ESPN (tv network)
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Curtain Call: Old-Time Big East Exits The Big Stage
NEW YORK — It was about the basketball. Of course, it was about the basketball, but it always was about the stage, too. No stage was bigger or better for three decades than during the March weekend when the best the college game could offer...Tags: Basketball, Washington Huskies, Fox Sports (tv network), Patrick Ewing, Christianity
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UConn's George Blaney Explains How To Stop Syracuse, Louisville
The Hartford CourantNobody could be more defensive at the 2013 Final Four than Mark Emmert, but Syracuse and Louisville are going to give it a try. The way the beleaguered NCAA president went after Dennis Dodd of CBSsports.com and a few others during his annual news...Tags: Basketball, Kevin Ware, Kevin McHale, Peyton Siva, Seton Hall Pirates
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Connecticut Hoop Coaches Agree: Rutgers' Mike Rice Was Way Out Of Line
The Hartford CourantMike Rice had to be fired. He repeatedly demeaned young men. He abused his position of authority. He not only violated the ideals of coaching, he ran roughshod through the boundaries of common human decency. Yet here's the thing. If ESPN "Outside the...Tags: Basketball, Chris Christie, Homophobia, Geno Auriemma, Bleep (euphemism)
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Teel Time: No current ACC teams but plenty of future in Final Four
For the first time since 1959-61, ACC basketball has gone three consecutive years without a Final Four representative. Only four league teams made the tournament, fewer than the Mountain West, Pacific 12 and Atlantic 10, and the conference’s lone...Tags: Basketball, Washington Huskies, Patrick Ewing, Mike Krzyzewski, Atlantic 10 Conference
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Errant Plays, Bad Calls Leave UConn Sidelined
The Hartford CourantNo living person could explain what happened to the sports programs of the University of Connecticut in the last six months. It would take John Milton, who was so good with rebel angels being "hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky / With hideous...Tags: Basketball, The New York Times, Boston College Eagles, University of Houston, UCF Knights
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NIT: 25 Years Ago, UConn, Jim Calhoun Sat On Top Of A Different World
The Hartford CourantThe clock ran down to zero and Murray Williams, who had chased down a loose ball, flung it high in the air, toward the unreachable rafters at Madison Square Garden. "It was just such a feeling of exhilaration," Williams says. "Impromptu. I saw the clock...Tags: Basketball, Students, Virginia Commonwealth Rams, Washington Huskies, Teaching and Learning
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Auriemma Signs 5-Year Contract Extension
The Hartford CourantAfter UConn defeated his team by 68 points in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last week at Gampel Pavilion, Idaho coach Jon Newlee compared Geno Auriemma to two legends: James Naismith, the inventor of basketball and UCLA coach John Wooden. On...Tags: Basketball, The New York Times, Kevin Ollie, Geno Auriemma, Gampel Pavilion
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Calhoun, UConn Talk About What's Next
The Hartford CourantAlthough the March 15 deadline has passed, a UConn source said Friday that the school and Jim Calhoun have agreed to continue talks on the possibility of the former men's basketball coach remaining at the school. According to Article 10.1 of his 2010...Tags: Kevin Ollie
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Quinnipiac: Becoming A Giant
The Hartford Courant— No matter how many times you make the drive, whether it's the first time or the hundredth, you turn off I-91, travel a few miles west on the connector road. You look up and … Quinnipiac? Wow. "It is the great statement," Quinnipiac...Tags: Basketball, Boston College, Shamrock, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Politics
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