At long last, regular season college basketball is here. For the UConn men, it all starts on Monday night at Gampel Pavilion when the New Haven Chargers come to town. It’ll be a buy game coming off a pair of wins for the Huskies against Power 4 competition in exhibition games, so it’s understandable if […]
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UConn men’s basketball starts its 2025-26 season Monday night at Gampel Pavilion, as the Huskies take on New Haven in the Chargers’ first-ever Division I game. With the season about to begin, The UConn Blog staff has assembled an impressive array of content with another exciting season on the horizon. If you don’t already, please […]
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The UConn women’s soccer team earned the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Big East Championship, which will be held at the Maryland SoccerPlex on November 6, with the finals set for November 9. The Huskies will take on the No. 2 seed Xavier Musketeers in the semifinals on November 6 at 5 p.m. The […]
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UConn men’s basketball starts its 2025-26 season Monday night at Gampel Pavilion, as the Huskies take on New Haven in the Chargers’ first-ever Division I game. With the season about to start, The UConn Blog staff has assembled an impressive array of content with another exciting season on the horizon. If you don’t already, please […]
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UConn men’s basketball enters the 2025-26 season as a legitimate national contender on paper for the third consecutive season. Two years ago, the Huskies lived up to the hype and delivered with another national champtionship, becoming the first program to go back-to-back in nearly 20 years. Last year, things didn’t really go to plan. UConn […]
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UConn football scored 10 points off two first-half turnovers and rode a 21-0 second-quarter burst to victory as they reached six wins and bowl eligibility after beating UAB, 38-19. Joe Fagnano threw four touchdown passes, going 23-of-30 with 267 yards, including three touchdowns to Skyler Bell, who finished with 149 yards on eight receptions. John […]
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While the backcourt for the UConn men’s basketball team offers plenty of talent but many new faces, the frontcourt oozes stability and familiarity. Alex Karaban’s return and the ability to keep Jaylin Stewart and Jayden Ross from transferring brings tremendous experience and versatility on both ends. Almost every player in the frontcourt can defend multiple […]
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The fact that you can even debate whether UConn’s frontcourt, backcourt or wings are more loaded shows you the type of depth the Huskies have this year. Successful college basketball backcourts need a blend of catch-and-shoot threats, off-script shotmakers, table setters, defensive stoppers, and Swiss army combinations of the above. This year, the Huskies backcourt […]
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TIME: 12:00 PM TV: CBS Sports Network ANNOUNCERS: Fran Charles (play-by-play), Taylor McHargue (analyst), Hailey Sutton (sideline) RADIO: UConn Sports Network; Varsity Network App; 97.9 Fox Sports, WGCH 1490 AM, WAVZ 1300 AM, WILI 1400 AM and 95.3 FM, WICH 1310 AM and 94.5 FM; Sirius/XM online streaming, XM 383 (UConn) ANNOUNCERS: Mike Crispino (play-by-play), Wayne Norman […]
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UConn men’s basketball projects to be a serious contender to win the Big East this season, earning four out of a possible 11 first-place votes and coming in at No. 2 in the conference’s preseason coaches’ poll. While the Big East figures to be more top heavy than in past years, any of these teams […]
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Last year, the bottom of the Big East was an anchor on the conference’s overall metrics, the handicap on higher NCAA tournament seeding and overall respect in the college basketball landscape. Seton Hall was the worst team in the Big East last year, finishing 202nd in KenPom. Here’s where the last place team finished in […]
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UConn men’s basketball won its final exhibition on Tuesday night, dispatching Michigan State 76-69 in a foul-heavy, but promising tune-up. Solo Ball and Alex Karaban led the Huskies with 18 apiece, while Jayden Ross added 13 points off the bench. Freshman Eric Reibe grabbed seven rebounds, while Georgia transfer Silas Demary Jr stuffed the statsheet […]
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On Thursday, UConn women’s basketball received its 2025 national championship rings. Though made by Jostens, Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and Caroline Ducharme helped design it. The top of the ring features the net draped on the trophy and a UConn wordmark laid over 12 trapezoid-shaped baguette stones to represent the program’s 12 national titles. All […]
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The UConn men’s basketball team has assembled something of a monstrous non-conference schedule. It begins fairly tame with the mundane matchups you’d typically expect from any season’s start. UConn will play the likes of New Haven, UMass Lowell and Columbia as it looks to get its feet underneath itself — but those are not elite […]
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College basketball season is finally upon us, and with it, the 2025-26 UConn men’s basketball team’s attempt at a third national championship in four years. The Huskies will play a downright brutal non-conference slate with games against five preseason Top 25 teams on the schedule. But before they get to those, UConn will open with […]
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UConn football will have to wait at least another week to reach bowl eligibility as the Huskies dropped a double-OT shootout with Rice on Saturday afternoon. Rice snapped the Huskies’ four-game winning streak with a touchdown to beat their field goal in the second frame of extra time. UConn got off to an explosive start […]
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Owen McLaughlin’s second period power play goal turned out to be the difference as the No. 4 Boston University Terriers beat the No. 11 UConn Huskies men’s hockey team, 3-1, at the Toscano Family Ice Forum in Storrs, CT on Saturday. Joey Muldowney had the lone goal for the Huskies. Photo ©: Ian Bethune Apple […]
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UConn men’s basketball announced Friday that star freshman Braylon Mullins suffered an ankle injury in practice earlier this week and is set to miss approximately six weeks. Mullins, a McDonald’s All-American and the highest-ranked freshman in the Huskies’ 2025 recruiting class, was just named the Big East Preseason Freshman of the Year earlier this week. […]
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TIME: 3:00 PM TV: ESPN+ ANNOUNCERS: Todd Emrich (play-by-play), Charles Arbuckle (analyst), Smacker Miles (sideline) RADIO: UConn Sports Network; Varsity Network App; 97.9 Fox Sports, WGCH 1490 AM, WAVZ 1300 AM, WILI 1400 AM and 95.3 FM, WICH 1310 AM and 94.5 FM; Sirius/XM online streaming, XM 384 (UConn) ANNOUNCERS: Mike Crispino (play-by-play), Wayne Norman (color analyst), […]
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As a result of the US government’s ongoing shutdown, the Armed Forces Classic between UConn and Louisville has been moved from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The season-opening contest will still take place on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 5:30 pm ET. “We’ve made the decision to move […]
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Thanks to a rush of talent flowing from Storrs to the NBA over the past five years, the Association has slowly been repopulated with Huskies. As the 2025-26 season opens, eight former UConn men’s basketball players will appear on NBA rosters, ranging from seasoned veteran Andre Drummond to rookie Liam McNeeley. Perhaps the most improbable […]
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UConn women’s basketball received its first 2026 commitment on Tuesday: Olivia Vukosa, a 6-4 post player ranked as the No. 3 prospect in her class by ESPN. A native of Queens, she plays at the legendary Christ The King High School that has produced the likes of Sue Bird, Tina Charles and Chamique Holdsclaw. Nicknamed […]
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On the same day that she was named Big East Preseason Player of the Year, Sarah Strong picked up another honor: Associated Press Preseason All-American. The UConn sophomore made the five-player squad alongside Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo, Texas’ Madison Booker, South Carolina’s Ta’Niya Latson and UCLA’s Lauren Betts. Azzi Fudd earned an honorable mention nod. […]
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Braylon Mullins was one of five Huskies recognized with preseason All-Big East honors Tuesday morning, as the Greenfield, Indiana native was named the 2025-26 Preseason Big East Freshman of the Year. Mullins is the third-straight Husky to earn the honor, joining Stephon Castle in the 2023-24 and Liam McNeeley last season. Both Castle and McNeeley […]
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Basketball season is officially underway as Big East Media Day kicked off this morning and the conference released its annual coaches’ poll. UConn men’s basketball was picked to finish second this season by the league’s coaches and received four first-place votes, just three shy of No. 1 St. John’s (seven). Creighton, Providence and Marquette fill […]
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