Toughest Huskies

[Son of Robert]

Jeff Adrien +1. Dude was probably 6' 5'' but out-rebounded EVERYBODY

Yes, him and Charles Minlend from St. Johns.

 

[Son of Robert]

Caron
Silas
Freeman
Cam
Tyrese Martin
Ricky
Bazz
Okafor

Come to mind first...

Truth! Silas Demary carving his name right here in stone.

 

[fatlucy]

Toraino Walker. Scariest person I've ever seen in person; McMahon dining hall circa 1990.

He scared the hell out me at Ted’s one night. Pretended to get mad at me. I nearly crapped my self.

 

[B1GEast]

Caron. He played bigger than his size

 

[Husky Alien]

Rod Sellers one the many tough players we've had.

 

[Scottzer]

Ben Gordon? I know I wouldn’t want to fight him!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Yes, him and Charles Minlend from St. Johns.

Minlend was a punk. I still remember when he slapped Donnie Marshall in the face when the ref was handing Donnie the ball to inbound. The ref then gave both T's.

 

[HuskyFich]

We the fans that didn’t miss a game between 2015-2017

 

[Spaceman213J]

When I read the title of the thread, Dyson was the name that popped for me.
Freeman, Adrien, Sellers, DePriest, Taliek, Ricky Moore were also names that came soon after. Also, when I think of tough, I think of guys who can take the abuse and go to the hole fearlessly. A couple recent guys I'd put on the list are KB and Newton, and Demary is rising quickly on the list and Reed is pretty impressive as well. Tristen would get mugged driving every single time and refs did nothing to protect him. Karaban just battles out there.

Finally, I have to add Chuck Aleksinas because I hit him hard with a no look pass to the face during an open gym and he took it like a man. He even told me it was a great pass and he should have been ready for it, even though he couldn't open his eye for a little while.

 

[Muddler]

Ryan Boatwright was a tough dude. This one is different. but he took no crap from Alonzo Mourning and some verbal abuse, and stuck it in his face, Nadav Henefeld.

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[T-Squared]

Toraino Walker. Scariest person I've ever seen in person; McMahon dining hall circa 1990.
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Toraino Walker. Scariest person I've ever seen in person; McMahon dining hall circa 1990.

Scary indeed. I remember UConn playing Georgetown in the 1990 Big East Tournament and the Huskies started a fast break. Toraino was trying to fill the left side but a Georgetown player grabbed him by the jersey to slow him down. Toraino turned and gave the guy a look that would have turned most people to stone. The guy let go of Toraino’s jersey and slowed his pursuit of #21 down the floor.

 

[Huskybass]

Cam, Boat, Bazz, Jake

As for guys who look tough/intimidating and you probably wouldn't want to get in a fight with we haven't had too many over the years. Only Toraino Walker, Jeff Adrien, and Ruslan Inyatkin really come to mind.

Love all 4 of these. Bazz refused to lose, Boat was the toughest little guy with ridiculous athleticism, Jake was beyond solid, and Cam is well, Cam. Freeman was another personal tough favorite.

 

[Huskybass]

Truth! Silas Demary carving his name right here in stone.

I love how he has games of 23 points and 15 assists. I'm guessing not many of our point guards have reached both of those single game totals. Maybe Marcus Williams?

 

[FreeKlaiber]

Willie Mccloud was a beast

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Dyson
Saunders
Donny
Taliek Brown - I was not a huge Taliek fan, but he may have been the strongest PG we have ever had.
Henefeld
Josh Carlton

 

[husky99]

Dyson.. left a tooth at Depaul or marquette .tried to check back in at the next whistle

 

[huskiesNhoos]

I Remember Dyson getting knocked to the floor face first, loosing a couple bloody teeth and return to the game. TOUGH AS NAILS

Super random, but I happened to meet former gonzaga guy Matt Bouldin (WCC POY back in '10) a while back and he was really cool to talk basketball with because he played ball with a ton of guys I watched in person back in school since we're around same age (saw zags gets smoked at uva when he was there so I gave him a hard time for that)

I of course told him in addition to uva I'm a huge uconn fan and he told me he's still got a voicemail from JC when he was being recruited to play here saved on his voicemail. He was really complementary to a ton of uconn guys but when I asked him about Dyson he said something along the lines of that dude was just scary to play against he was intense and tough as hell. Cementing my opinion of him as an all time uconn tough guy

 

[Northbound]

Taliek, Selvie, Caron, Boat, Big Ed Nelson

 

[arch]

Toby Kimball

 

[Horatio]

Selvie
Dyson
Caron

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Toraino
Big Rod
Lyman
Nadav…I mean he was in the military

 

[NewBlood]

Everyone saying Adrien is right, but no one is getting likes because everyone remembers him and Thabeet getting bullied by Dejuan Blair. We were ranked 1st in the nation when he had 22 pts, 23 boards against us and knocked us off, while Jeff and Hasheem looked rather soft... i hated that game.

But on the opposite end of that game that year was the destruction of the Cardinals at the Yuck center

 

[TroyHall98]

Kirk King
Eric Hayward

 

[Son of Robert]

Minlend was a punk. I still remember when he slapped Donnie Marshall in the face when the ref was handing Donnie the ball to inbound. The ref then gave both T's.

Maybe so, but he could rebound really well for his size

 

[Dove]

Answering first. Reading thread later...

Taliek Brown

Andre Jackson

Jeff Adrien

Caron Butler

Ca-a-a-ammm!!!