Best Opposing Players UConn faced when in Yankee Conference

[huskyrob1]

This includes non-Yankee conference opponents during those years

I think of the following:

Steve Chubin : Rhode Island
Dr. J: UMass
King Gaskins and Ron Texiera: Holy Cross
Jimmy Walker, Ernie D, Marvin Barnes: Providence
John Austin: BC
Dave Bing: Syracuse
Chris Dudley: Yale

I cannot think of any from Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire

Makes me wonder, did UConn ever play Fairfield Univ during the Joe DeSantis - Mark Young era?

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Makes me wonder, did UConn ever play Fairfield Univ during the Joe DeSantis - Mark Young era?

Yep. Season finales with Fairfield plus one year in a post season.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Perno played them throughout his tenure. Calhoun played them early in his.

 

[Waquoit]

Makes me wonder, did UConn ever play Fairfield Univ during the Joe DeSantis - Mark Young era?

Corny's freshman year he beat the DeSantis-led Stags by a point in the Field House. It was pandemonium! I think Young had moved on.

 

[August_West]

I remember Yale beating uconn at new haven coliseum late 70’s. Sucked.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Oh really... so reading Waq's reply it does say "couldn't get in to" not couldn't play at UConn. That would be my bad, my apology to Waq and thanks for the clarification. Not sure on who or why but that's whacked now that I think about it.

I do need to edit on this with Murph though, a complete swing and miss by the staff is all that was period! Didn't know about Garris and Adams, maybe even Bags. But why was BC more lenient than us at the time for accepting student athletes?

Mau
In the early to mid 70s BC was facing bankruptcy and possible acquisition by area schools. Not sure if it had the academic reputation it has today. They may have started turning it around about Bag's time.
Edit; I meant and Cobb's time.

 

[dvegas]

I remember Yale beating uconn at new haven coliseum late 70’s. Sucked.

House of Horrors. Lost to Fairfield at the Coliseum in 83 or 84. Great place to see the GD or WWWF, not so much for UC

 

[Waquoit]

House of Horrors. Lost to Fairfield at the Coliseum in 83 or 84. Great place to see the GD or WWWF, not so much for UC

Except for the time we sitting right behind the hoop for a BC game. Michael Adams came flying into us after getting clobbered on a drive. My friend loses half his beer and says something to Adams. Adams said "Screw you". Except he didn't say screw. The buddy says (wisely) retorts "Your mother!" Adams was not happy. He goes to the foul line glaring at my friend the entire time and proclaiming how bad he is going to kick his ass after the game. Swished both. We left early.

 

[Pawsox]

Saw the name, King Gaskins from Holy Cross, mentioned earlier. King ended his career at my school (South Alabama), playing for Cliff Ellis. He came to us via a junior college after leaving Holy Cross. I was friends with most of the basketball players at that time and King fit right in even though he was a Boston native living in Mobile, Ala. He still had game as he was the MVP of a Christmas tournament and was the best player on the court for either team. He left the team right after that tournament and there were a lot of theories, but Ellis never divulged the real reason.