Great article on UConn Basketball.

[CL82]

MSN

It's a really good read.

 

[Pingolino]

loved this - I am so hyped up for this season

 

[The Yakk]

Fantastic article, reading it made me feel proud.

 

[Hunt for 7]

Great article….hard not to be proud of what has been accomplished. It seems impossible but it never felt that way as we moved through time. It always seemed like it was coming even before Hurley made those words an anthem for our team.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Really love this one. Shocking that it comes from Sports Illustrated, which hardly has any staff at this point.

 

[formerlurker]

I scanned this quickly, did I miss it? No mention of Jim Calhoun?

 

[gsmooth]

MSN

It's a really good read.

Thanks for sharing this article. But damn, I am supposed to be working, LOL.

 

[Marat]

Thanks for sharing this article. But damn, I am supposed to be working, LOL.

Well using the Boneyard and work is quite contradictory .

 

[dtrumpet]

Awesome read, great way to start the season.

 

[FearThePups]

Read it last night. Above and beyond. FYI Everyone. It’s easy to miss this kind of content. I stumbled onto the article through the HuskyNan weekly media updates threads. It’s usually the first thread on this forum every week and links to a multitude of written and video content. You could spend hours here.

 

[gsmooth]

Well using the Boneyard and work is quite contradictory .

very much contradictory.

 

[DRBackup]

It's a really good read.

The actual article is at SI.com, below. I have no idea how MSN managed to pump their ad revenues by getting every website to use them as a front page.

What’s in Storrs: How UConn Became a Basketball Powerhouse

This small town seems an unlikely home for not one but two dominant programs. But the Huskies are thriving because of, not in spite of, their sleepy setting.

www.si.com

 

[NJHusky]

Great read

In the past quarter century, what percentage of NCAA basketball championships has UConn won?


The answer: 32%.

 

[DRBackup]

I scanned this quickly, did I miss it? No mention of Jim Calhoun?

Nope, kind of amazing

 

[mussels]

I scanned this quickly, did I miss it? No mention of Jim Calhoun?

“The same thing was happening with the men’s program under Jim Calhoun. Whether you were a man or a woman, the main reason to choose UConn back then was because you wanted to play basketball for the Huskies’ coach”

 

[king conn]

It is in the SI college preview issue available the few places they sell sports magazines. I found it in Barnes and Noble

 

[shizzle787]

Great read

In the past quarter century, what percentage of NCAA basketball championships has UConn won?


The answer: 32%.

The real answer: 24%

 

[NJHusky]

The real answer: 24%

My guess is they were including women’s victories too?

 

[auggie22]

That was a really well written article - cogent, poignant, not scmaltzy. That person has talent.

 

[HooperScooper]

My guess is they were including women’s victories too?

Correct. The women have won 10 since 2000. The men have 6 of 25 and the women 10 of 25. So 16 of 50 is 32%.

The real answer: 24%

Since they didn't play an NCAA Tournament in 2020 isn't it really 25% (6 of 24) if they're going to say the past quarter century? If they said in the last 25 NCAA Tournaments then the answer is 24%. Semantics I guess.

 

[my2cents]

Great article. Some other points that could be made. Geno once said that he became a much better coach when he got great players, As Uconn fans, first with the women and now with the men, it doesn't hurt to be able to recruit the best players in the country before they get to their first practice.

 

[dennismenace]

MSN

It's a really good read.

Thanks for posting this. A lot is revealed in this well written article. I am especially grateful for the section near the end where Dan Hurley talks about what was the primary reason for the complete 180 he did in January 2023 and he has never looked back to the old way. Very inspiring and a great deal of humility by these two coaches in reaching for something greater than themselves and inspiring others with the same dreams to do likewise. Not only "different" but also very "special" in self sacrifice.

 

[Kemba Time]

I’m torn here. This is a fantastic article about UConn basketball.

The whole idea that UConn is next to a field of cows in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do is so played out though — and much less accurate with everything that has gone up around campus in recent years.

There are 30,000+ students who go to UConn every year and aren’t there because Dan Hurley and Geno recruited them (well, not directly anyway).

I’m no Rhodes Scholar, but I got accepted at several national public universities and chose UConn because a world built entirely for 18-22-year-olds is as good of a college experience as you can have anywhere. And that was before Downtown Storrs and many campus upgrades that have given students more options.

Again, I get it. It’s the easy narrative and mostly true when talking about the glamour of what basketball recruits are choosing between.

But anyone who isn’t being recruited by Hurley or Geno isn’t exactly running to send in their application after reading that intro, and they’re missing out on a magical, amazing place that I and just about anyone I’ve met who graduated from UConn would go back to in a second if given the chance (and probably get to celebrate multiple national titles while there).

 

[cp176]

In the fall of 1991, my first year of varsity coaching at a large high school in the state of Maine, I attended a women's practice at UCONN. It made me believe that what I thought all along about coaching any sport at any level, hard work, intensity, fundamentals, and truly caring about the kids you are working with was a key to success. That article was fantastic.

 

[alphasigko]

One question: Who takes a "Right Turn at Four Corners" to get to the UConn campus? i always came in on 195 from I-86/84 and went straight at Four Corners.