The University of Connecticut's metamorphic rise in men's basketball from Big East Conference doormat to national powerhouse is truly remarkable.
In fact, to fully appreciate UConn's astounding ascens.
Tom Moore was an assistant under Jim Calhoun for UConn's first two national championships, where key players had been around the program and made previous deep runs in the tournament. This year, his third title, felt different.
The University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball is back back in the Big East, back as the nation’s premiere program of the 21st century, and back as national champions.
And they weren’t gone long.
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HOUSTON Ask some college sports fans what they think of when the name “UConn” comes up and the first probably isn’t the men’s basketball program, despite being one win away from its fifth national title.
For decades, the major industry at the campus in Storrs, Conn., has been women’s hoops.