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Message: [QUOTE="Cheddie, post: 5260975, member: 482"] UConn had a regionally illustrious program in the 60's until the administration led it wither on the vine. Per Wiki - Fred Shabel's teams won four Yankee Conference championships in four years, leading to three NCAA tournament berths. By the mid-1960s, UConn had appeared in the NCAA tournament 11 times, second most in the country. Two great players: Toby Kimball played in the NBA nine years, averaging a double-double one year. Wes Bialosuknia still holds UConn scoring records. He was 2nd in the ABA in 3-point shooting %. After the 1966–67 season, Shabel stepped down as head coach to become the athletic director at Penn. He later attributed the move to the school's ambivalence about committing greater financial resources to athletics, including the administration's decision to decline an invitation to the NIT in 1966 without consulting him. [/QUOTE]