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UConn Men's Garden Drought
Hartford Courant — UConn has lost five consecutive Big East tournament games:
2 hours agoUConn Men's Extras...
Hartford Courant — t BIG EAST, BIG SLUMP: UConn has lost its opening game at the Big East tournament each of the last five years. The Huskies have won the tournament six times, the last in 2004.
2 hours agoUConn Doesn't Show Much In First Half, Trail St. John's, 35-22
Hartford Courant — UConn is down 13 at halftime to St. John's. It was one of UConn's worst half performances of the season. The Huskies are flat and fragile, being knocked around and nto running any offense. Nothing is working.
5 hours agoCalhoun, Sun Dismiss Retirement Report
Hartford Courant — — On the eve of UConn's Big East tournament loss to St. John's, SNY's Chris Carlin said on the network's talk show "Loud Mouths" late Monday night that "sources close to Jim Calhoun believe he will retire at season's end."
5 hours agoSt. John's Routs UConn In Big East Tourney Opener
Hartford Courant — — There probably would have been as much disbelief as disappointment after this embarrassment if the regular season hadn't seemed to funnel UConn toward such an inauspicious ending, such an ugly showing.
5 hours agoUConn Unsure About NIT
Hartford Courant — Kemba Walker harbored such distaste for UConn's 73-51 loss to St. John's on Tuesday in the Big East tournament that he's not sure he can stomach another similar performance.
5 hours agoJim Boeheim, Wes Johnson Earn Big East Top Awards
Hartford Courant — Jim Boeheim has been voted Big East coach of the year, joining Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun as the only four-time winners of the award.
13 hours agoUConn Men Unsure About NIT
Hartford Courant — Kemba Walker harbored such distaste for UConn's 73-51 loss to St. John's on Tuesday in the Big East tournament that he's not sure he can stomach another similar performance.
13 hours agoJim Calhoun On UConn's Immediate Future (NIT?)
UConn Men's Basketball | Hartford Courant — A loss to St. John's has left UConn staring at the NIT -- if they're invited, if they want to participate. Jim Calhoun's thoughts on what the next few days will be like for him and his team: We won't practice for a couple of days at least. Then I don't know if we will practice or not. I think it's a good time to reflect where we are today and how we ended up today. This is certainly not typical. We've been beaten before and ended seasons on some sour notes and some great notes. But I think it's a good time to maybe sit back. I've always had great respect. The only thing we can hope for is a...
14 hours agoJim Calhoun Following UConn's Loss To St. John's
UConn Men's Basketball | Hartford Courant — UConn coach Jim Calhoun's opening statement during a press conference following the Huskies' 73-51 loss to St. John's in the first round of the Big East tournament: Most importantly, give congratulations to St. John's. They come out here with purpose, physicality and quite frankly handed us our butts. They knocked us off all screens. They completely outplayed us. They were much hungrier than we were. We turned the ball over 20 times. We've been shooting 80% the past five games from the foul line; today 6 for 18. Quite frankly just got handled by a St. John's team who played very hungry...
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- What’s latest on Georgetown? Bulls Report | Tampa Tribune USF and Georgetown tip off in less than three hours at Madison Square Garden. If you check out this blog regularly, hopefully you know all about the Bulls. Bulls coach Stan Heath knows the Bulls have a huge challenge today to knock off the Hoyas for the second time this…
- Notre Dame's Brian Kelly on hoops, holes and hopes Notre Dame Blog | Chicago Breaking Sports By Brian HamiltonNotre Dame coach Brian Kelly met with a small group of reporters for a winding, 45-minute interview in a Manhattan restaurant on Tuesday. Here's more of what he said...NEW YORK -- Brian Kelly was in town for a 48-hour glad-handing spree for the greater good of Notre Dame football, but that didn't mean he was oblivious to the revival potentially continuing just down 34th Street.In fact, the unexpected resuscitation of the Irish men's basketball team was an object lesson for Kelly's football crew just a few days earlier, when the Irish football players had their first outdoor wo...
- Live blog: Join us for USF-Georgetown at noon The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times When's the last time a basketball game meant this much for USF? You could argue it's been 18 or 20 years, since the Bulls' only previous trips to the NCAA Tournament. Win today against Georgetown -- a team the Bulls...
- A Tough Finale RAC 'Em Up | Newark Star-Ledger Earlier in the day, Lance Stephenson earned conference rookie of the year honors (Wes Johnson earned POY and Jim Boeheim was COY) over Dane Miller. An interesting side note - the Big East media had their own informal vote and...
- Scoop Jardine is Sporting News Sixth Man of the Year Orange Basketball Blog | Post-Standard On a team with seven starters, Kris Joseph didn't qualify as a sixth man.
- St. John's looks for revenge vs. Marquette today New York Post At last year’s Big East tournament, 13th seed St. John’s beat 12th seed Georgetown in the first round, capping a disappointing season for the Hoyas. The next day, the Red Storm were blown out by fifth-seeded Marquette, 74-45. Yesterday, as the 13th seed in this year’s tournament...