Uconn Basketball

Not A Good Way To End The Season

Posted 03.16.2012

This isn't the way UConn wanted to end the season. Not only did the Huskies fall short in their first game of the NCAA Tournament, losing to Iowa Stat...

Defending NCAA Champs Knocked Out

AP | NANCY ARMOUR | Posted 05.15.2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The national champions are one and done, thanks to Iowa State. When Jim Calhoun and Connecticut will be back in the NCAA tour...

No. 8 Iowa State vs. No. 9 UConn

Posted 03.12.2012

The defending champion UConn Huskies will open their bid to repeat as national champions against the Iowa State Cyclones on Thursday evening in Louisv...

UConn's Run Ends

AP | JIM O'CONNELL | Posted 05.08.2012

NEW YORK — Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun said he didn't think any team would ever do what his did last year – win five games in five days ...

UConn Working Overtime At MSG

AP | JIM O'CONNELL | Posted 05.07.2012

NEW YORK — Shabazz Napier scored 26 points and Jeremy Lamb added 22 to lead Connecticut to its 13th straight postseason win, 71-67 in overtime o...

UConn Beats DePaul To Open Big East Tournament

AP | JIM O'CONNELL | Posted 05.06.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Lamb scored 25 points and Ryan Boatright added 19 to lead Connecticut to an 81-67 victory over DePaul on Tuesday in the openi...

Calhoun Returns As UConn Wins Season Finale

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 05.03.2012

STORRS, Conn. — Jim Calhoun was advised not to return to the bench so soon after back surgery, and was supposed to take it easy if he did. So m...

Will NCAA Bubble Burst For UConn?

CollegeHoops.Net | Posted 03.02.2012

Since we're down to the stretch run, Bracketology projections will be coming fast and furious instead of once a week. The big news is that South Flori...

UConn Stuns Villanova In OT With 29-Footer

AP | DAN GELSTON | Posted 04.21.2012

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shabazz Napier swished a 29-footer with 0.6 seconds left in overtime, and Jeremy Lamb scored a career-high 32 points to help Con...

The Best Teams Of 2011

Posted 12.31.2011

What is it that makes a team great? Is it a consistent dominance from start to finish that simply suffocates opponents? The Green Bay Packers have...

HIGHLIGHTS: No. 1 Baylor Battles No. 2 UConn

AP | By STEPHEN HAWKINS | Posted 12.19.2011

WACO, Texas -- Brittney Griner scored 12 of her 25 points during the closing run that pushed top-ranked Baylor past No. 2 Connecticut 66-61 on Sunday ...

Michael Jordan's Son Leads UFC In Upset Over No. 4 UConn

AP | Posted 11.25.2011

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- This one was particularly painful for Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun. Jeremy Lamb scored 15 points, but the fourth-ranked ...

WATCH: UConn Player Posterizes Columbia Defender

The Huffington Post | Chris Greenberg | Posted 01.12.2012

According to Urban Dictionary, "posterize" is defined as a "Basketball term meaning to embarrass some one usually while slamming the ball over them. I...

Jordan Schultz

College Basketball Preview 2011: The 15 Best Storylines This Season

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Schultz | Posted 01.02.2012

If there is one positive to come out of the NBA Lockout, it's that several future superstars elected to return to school and, the quality of college b...

Could New Rule Keep UConn From March Madness?

AP | Posted 12.28.2011

By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. -- Changes in NCAA rules adopted Thursday would keep defending national champion Connecticut fr...

UConn Women's Coach: Don't Expect A Title This Season

AP | By PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 11.14.2011

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma says he doesn't think his Huskies will win an eighth national title this se...

Former UConn Forward Enters Drug Program

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 08.15.2011

VERNON, Conn. — Former Connecticut forward Jamal Coombs-McDaniel was admitted Wednesday into a state drug education program that could leave him...

National Champion Arrested On Drug Charge

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 06.22.2011

HARTFORD, Conn. – Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, a swingman on Connecticut's national championship basketball team, has been arrested on a marijuana pos...

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 06.05.2011

Len Berman

Last night's championship game will long be remembered for what it didn't have: made baskets. Butler set the all-time record for futility in a championship game, shooting just 18.8 per cent.

UConn Students Riot In Streets

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 06.05.2011

STORRS, Conn. — University of Connecticut and state police say they arrested 27 people after the Huskies won the national basketball championship. ...

NCAA Title Game LIVE UPDATES

Posted 06.04.2011

Butler and UConn square off tonight in the NCAA tournament championship game at 9:23 p.m. ET. It has been a wild tournament thus far, filled with craz...

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 06.04.2011

Len Berman

With all the hoo-hah that college basketball receives, how many of you outside of Indiana followed the Butler Bulldogs this season? Heck, not that many in Indianapolis follow them.

UConn Earns Final Four Bid

AP | GREG BEACHAM | Posted 05.26.2011

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jim Calhoun could scarcely watch when the most improbable postseason run of his coaching life at Connecticut came down to an o...

On To The Elite Eight

AP | GREG BEACHAM | Posted 05.25.2011

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The legend of Kemba Walker is growing bigger with each postseason feat for the Connecticut Huskies, who are on the brink of an...

UConn Women's Coach Rips Fans

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

STORRS, Conn. -- Connecticut fans may have seen their last NCAA tournament game in Storrs for a while. Coach Geno Auriemma, disappointed that fewer t...