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Dude is 7'5'' and picked UCF over Georgetown among others. He and McBride in the same frontcourt will at least be entertaining.

Uconn's record in the NCAA tournament since 2004 is 26-5. Since 2009, it's 16-2. Now these stats are slightly midleading when compared to teams like Duke and Kansas who never miss the tournament, as we've missed it 3 times since 2004 (including last year, where we would have made it if...

Could a Uconn fan have scripted the first weekend any better? Duke, Syracuse, Umass, and PC all gone. The only "Big East" team left is the one from Nebraska. And the school that's supposed to fade away "any day now" is still playing.

No question that the near misses in the last couple of months have been frustrating. I actually think it would be easier to take if these kids were just writing off Uconn from the start - the fact that so many of them are keeping us on their short list makes it even worse. But when I hear...

Another shining example of a program that is able to post solid APR scores year after year. Les Miles and Mike Gundy sure kept on top of those kids. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130911/oklahoma-state-part-2-academics/?sct=hp_t11_a2&eref=sihp

In his top 10 and he plans to visit in August. On a related note, there must be about 10 kids who have said they're going to visit in August/September. It's hard to believe that nothing set in stone has been reported. http://zagsblog.com/recruiting/terry-larrier-cuts-to-10/

Per Rothstein tweet.

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-uconn-men-0806-20130805,0,7771020.story Facey's path from Jamaica to Long Island Lutheran to UConn is being reviewed, and this is probably the more complicated of the two issues. He played three years at Long Island Lutheran, which might...

It was pretty obvious that BC would be the 1st round opponent, but now it's confirmed. http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/86534/bracket-reveal-2k-sports-classic-3

Per several twitterers, Detroit and BU are the first two opponents for the 2K Sports Classic. Assuming we play Washington, I count 12 non-conference games. Florida, Stanford, Washington, Maryland, BC, Indiana/UW, Harvard, Detroit, BU, Eastern Washington, Yale, Umass-Lowell.

http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gatorbytes/2013/05/03/basketball-florida-to-visit-connecticut-this-year-gets-flexibility-on-return-game/

Hopefully whoever Ollie talks to has similar feedback. http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2013/03/nba-scouts-on-shabazz-napier-ryan.html

Olander's in a walking boot. Omar sounded less than confident about playing. We could be looking at Boat, Allen, Evans, Daniels, Nolan.

Don Amore had this little recruiting tidbit in his chat today: "The guy I sense a lot of optimism about out of NYC is Khadeem Carrington from bishop loughlin, a '14 guard." If you recall, he's very close with Terrence Samuel, who said in another recent article that he thought Carrington...

According to Jon Rothstein on Twitter (sorry can't link to it from this computer), Jamal Coombs-McDaniel has been suspended for the first 2 games of the season for violating team rules.

Per Reggie Rankin on twitter.

Being released at noon today. Seems like tidbits may be released throughout the morning. So far, I've seen that the first Big Monday game this year will be Lousiville @ Uconn on Jan. 14th.

12. Selden 25. Hamilton 32. Iverson 37. Marcus Lee 39. XRM 73. Stevie Clark Samuel, Facey, Jordan Bell not ranked.

Just committed to UNLV. Roscoe Smith, of course, transferred to UNLV because "he wants to play the 3." Guess what position Goodman (a top 100 recruit) plays?

We got Leon too

Some schools aren't letting kids transfer unless they have a 2.6 gpa since it will hurt their score. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/18828267/apr-fears-put-transfer-hopefuls-like-setty-in-tough-situation

really is doing something at least.... "As expected six members of Connecticut's congressional delegation (all but Rep. Jim Himes) called on the NCAA to review and modify a new rule regarding the Academic Progress Rate. In a letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert, delegation members called on...

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/ Count Niels Giffey as another who won't be abandoning ship. In fact, other than the possibility of Lamb and Drummond going pro, Giffey thinks "everybody's going to stay." That includes little-used countryman Enosch Wolf, who seemed to be in Jim Calhoun's...

From the "I wish this wasn't actually news department"... Boatright is staying at Uconn per Don Amore.

Lots of rumors about this. Martin's an east coast guy, but has no ties to South Carolina. Maybe I'm missing something, but how can this be viewed as anything but a step down? South Carolina basketball?

@KevinRDuffy: Source close to situation believes Omar Calhoun is "100 percent" in commitment to Uconn.

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I counted five games with bubble implications: Noon: Uconn vs. DePaul - no explanation needed. 7 pm: GW vs. Dayton - A loss definitely would eliminate Dayton 7 pm: Providence vs. Seton Hall - A loss almost certainly would eliminate Seton Hall 7 pm: Charlotte vs. St. Joe's - A loss definitely...

had this to say after his loss to Fairfield: "If you're going to pick 8 or 9 teams out of the Big East, that's nonsense. Those teams aren't as good as we are." Well, see Timmy, here's the thing. None of us know how many Big East teams Iona would beat. What we do know is that the 9th and...

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2012/02/ncaa-approves-ulm-wavier-grants-postseason-eligibility/1

Ryan Braun won his appeal yesterday, not because he denied having taken illegal drugs, but because the chain of custody for his failed test results was broken. By the letter of the law, his failed test was invalid because it could not be proven that it wasn't tampered with during the time it...

Bubble teams who won tonight (and are probably no longer on the bubble): 1) Seton Hall 2) Kansas State Bubble teams who lost tonight: 1) Xavier 2) Miami 3) Illinois 4) NC State 5) Northwestern 6) Mississippi State Colorado State is still TBD. Joe Lunardi has Central Florida in the dance as...

Tomorrow, who will be without James Bell and likely without Maalik Wayns as well. Don't care that it's on the road, or that they almost beat Notre Dame last night with the same lineup. Nova is terrible. This is also now very interesting from a matchup perspective. Nova played Pinkston...

http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-jacobs-uconn-ncaa-tournament-column-0217-20120217,0,2564692.column Essentially saying that the crux of the issue is that there is no reason why the NCAA can't use 2011-2012 data to determine 2013 eligibility. Harrison has said that it may be a problem...

Given the APR nonsense, I'm not very confident in landing any of our 2012 targets. But it doesn't hurt to get the kids on campus. http://bigeast360.com/2012/02/16/our-savior-new-american-standouts-taking-visits-this-weekend-obekpa-to-uconn-balamou-to-st-johns/