Longtime Big East writer Kevin McNamara talks UConn men’s basketball on podcast

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In our podcast, we get McNamara’s opinion on how the Big East will shake out this season, how good he thinks UConn will be, his thoughts on Dan Hurley (who McNamara got to know well while Hurley coached at URI from 2012-18), whether or not PC-UConn can become a sizzling, border-war rivalry and other insightful takes.

Longtime Big East writer Kevin McNamara joins Hearst CT Media’s UConn men’s basketball podcast

Kevin McNamara, who has covered the Big East for 31 years and literally wrote the book on...

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Couple of statements he made I hadn't really focused on. One was that it isn't just no fans at the games, if a game were in Providence today, the press wouldn't be able to attend either. I had been focused on the league working out the protocols uniformly for the league based on working with the states. He pointed out 11 teams in 11 states with 11 different health protocols. It appears the coaches have a high expectation they won't really play their schedule. I thought they would at least put on a face of optimism. Also surprised me that most of our kids were on campus far before nearly every other school which didn't have players on campuses until mid Aug. I had just assumed the other schools were acting the same. I would have thought it would be difficult to have a significant discussion of UConn's prospects without ever mentioning Polley or Jackson, and only saying Sanogo's name, but they did it.