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[QUOTE="RuffRuff, post: 5339401, member: 1268"]
[HEADING=2]Pre-Calhoun NCAA Tournament Results (men’s team)[/HEADING]
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[*][B]1951[/B]: Beat [B]Princeton[/B] 53–52 (first round). Lost to Kentucky in the regional semifinal.
[*][B]1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985[/B]: All appearances ended with [B]first-round losses[/B].
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That means:
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[*]The [B]only NCAA tournament victory prior to Calhoun[/B] was indeed the [B]1951 win over Princeton[/B].
[*]They did [B]not[/B] notch wins over Temple, Hofstra, or Manhattan in the NCAA tournament. (They did play and beat those schools in other postseason events — notably the [B]NIT[/B], which UConn appeared in several times in the 1950s and 1960s. For example, UConn beat Hofstra in the 1956 NIT, Temple in the 1960 NIT, and Manhattan in a later NIT — but those were [B]not NCAA tournament games[/B].)
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[B]Answer:[/B]
In the [B]NCAA tournament[/B], UConn had [B]1 win pre-Calhoun[/B] (vs. Princeton, 1951).
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[*]Additional wins you’re recalling (Temple, Hofstra, Manhattan) came in the [B]NIT[/B], not the NCAA
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