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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 5140274, member: 974"] Please stop with the JC build this program from nothing. This was a strong regional program for decades. The Huskies appeared in the NCAA tournament 11 times between 1939 and 1970—second most of any school in the tournament's early era—reaching their first Sweet Sixteen in 1956 and first Elite Eight in 1964. [B]That ain't nothing.[/B] Calhoun and the Big East created by Dave Gavitt elevated the program. Calhoun could never have done what he succeed in doing without the brainchild of Dave Gavitt. The Big East was nationally significant before the Huskies. Calhoun made the Huskies significant in the Big East and then broke though at the national level. Calhoun is one of the best coaches in the history of college basketball. But he did not build the program from nothing. [/QUOTE]