UConn picks up the pace
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Freshman Charde Houston scored a career-high 20 points and Jessica Moore added 19 to lead No. 16 Connecticut to a 73-57 victory over Villanova last night in Storrs, Conn. The Huskies (10-4, 4-0 Big East) dominated inside, outscoring Villanova, 34-18, in the paint and finishing with a 35-26 edge on the boards.
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Dan Orlovsky has been very special to the Connecticut football program, and he was rewarded twice Monday night. Orlovsky led the Huskies to the
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Riding a five-game winning streak, Connecticut moved into the Associated Press Top 25 men's basketball poll yesterday for the first time since January 2007. UConn (16-5) checked in at No. 19, and Notre Dame (16-4) made its poll debut at No. 22, giving the Big East conference a nation-best five ranked teams. Memphis, the only remaining unbeaten, received all 72 ...
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Kalana Greene made three jumpers during an early 19-point run, and No. 6 Connecticut overcame a second-half slump and reached another program milestone last night with a 70-60 victory in Cincinnati, becoming the 18th women's team to win 700 games in Division 1.
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Rutgers has been gaining on Connecticut in the race for Big East supremacy for the last three seasons.
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Jessica Moore scored 19 points and led a 15-0 run late in the first half that broke open a tight game and led No. 9 Connecticut past Pittsburgh, 89-53, last night, for the visiting Huskies' fifth consecutive victory.
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Jerome Dyson tied a team record with nine steals and A. J. Price scored a career-high 25 points as Connecticut beat St. Johnâs, 81-65, on Tuesday in the Huskiesâ Big East home opener.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- After his team's dramatic victory over No. 7 Connecticut last week, Minuteman Anthony Anderson said, &quot;We've been saying this is our year.&quot;
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For a half, it looked like the kind of Connecticut team coach Jim Calhoun normally unleashes not only on the Big East but the rest of the college basketball world in March.
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Despite a tumultuous week that saw two key components of the Huskiesâ backcourt suspended, UConn continued its red-hot run on Saturday, outlasting Big East rival Pittsburgh, 60-53.
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The Huskies cruised to a 39-10 win against Toledo yesterday in the Motor City Bowl in Detroit. It was Connecticut&#39;s first bowl appearance since becoming a full-fledged Division IA team three years ago.
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Scott Crowder and Shawn Saunders scored early third-period goals yesterday at the Mullins Center in Amherst, sparking No. 15 UMass to a 4-3 victory over UConn.
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Connecticut linebacker Alfred Fincher matched his career high with 17 tackles and helped the Huskies secure their first Big East win as a conference member, a 29-17 victory last night over Pittsburgh in East Hartford, Conn.
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Pumped up by the pregame unveiling of its 2004 NCAA championship banner, Connecticut tuned up for defense of its title with a 97-64 exhibition victory over Division II Bridgeport Thursday night.
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The bus ride to the airport in Warwick, R.I., was a raucous one for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team yesterday afternoon. Over and over, the team watched the highlight from Thursday night when Rashaun Freeman hit the go-ahead basket against Connecticut and then leapt into the crowd with 4.3 seconds left on the clock.
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Dan Orlovsky threw three touchdowns and Connecticut strengthened its postseason bowl credentials with a wild 41-35 victory over Rutgers yesterday.
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Notre Dame basketball made a clean sweep of Connecticut.