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[QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 3591877, member: 4623"]
One of the great frustrations of my 67 seasons following UConn basketball is that we never evened the score with Holy Cross.

We held ground with them in the early-mid 50's, but then they dominated us from 1958-59 into the early 70's, until we drew a little blood in the Tony Hansen era.  We played them twice a year for much of that period, winning only three times.  We lost to them at Storrs even in the Kimball-Bialosuknia year, when both Toby and Wes were injured and missed the game.  We did win the return match at Worcester a couple weeks later.  For them, it was the great Blaney-Shea-Brandt teams, then the Keith Hochstein teams, then the Buddy Venne, Jack Foley and Ron Perry Jr. teams.

We entered the Big East when Holy Cross turned down Gavitt's invitation, making the fundamental decision to de-emphasize basketball.  We went power conference and they went mid-major.  To my recollection we never played them in the Perno-Calhoun era, when we might indeed have evened the score.  So sad.  I remember the lie-awake nights in the 60's, plotting ways to poison Keith Hochstein's water bottle.
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