uconn Stories - Swish Appeal
What is a Blue Blood or Royalty? reply to Eamonn Brennan
Eamonn Brennan asks the question of whether or not UCONN can obtain Blue Blood status. http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/28886/could-uconn-ever-become-a-blueblood This got under my skin but it made me think, which is a good thing. I'd really like to know how others feel...
Replacing Renee Montgomery: UConn's offense this season
There has been a lot of discussion about UConn losing Renee Montgomery and what that means for this season. A debate about replacing Renee's intangibles could go on forever, but I thought I'd focus on the nuts and bolts of replacing Renee in the offense. No one of this season's roster can pick...
UConn Big Man enters the draft
Although many people believe there is a conspiracy already in place to make Blake Griffin the Thunder's pick in the forthcoming draft (see previous hometown heroes Rose to Chicago, James to Cleveland), I am not ready to start getting my Griffin jersey made just yet. Today UCONN center Hasheem...
NCAA Not Happy
Anyone else catch the short CBS pregame show (remember before commercials and advertising became so popular and Gumbel and the crew actually had a real pregame and postgame show?)? Apparently the statement that Jim Calhoun read, which I wrote about being a joke, was so awful that the NCAA is now...
This Year, I Want It All.
Even after a much too close win over West Virginia, I've never been so confident in the Cards' ability to beat anyone on any given day. The games we didn't win (with the exception of UConn) were all remarkably unlikely considering the way we've played when at our best. Even against UConn we were...
January was good...
I think it speaks a lot considering how terribly we played (minus T-Will) and lost by 17. It could have been worse. That said, I have a few comments. 1. I don't know what Pitino was thinking throughout this game. Playing 11 men deep was a good idea, but it became apparent early that UConn was...









