UConn s Isaiah Whaley named Big East co-Defensive Player of Year, Tyler Polley top sixth man
David Borges
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UConn’s Isaiah Whaley (5) and Villanova’s Brandon Slater leap for a rebound during a game earlier this season.Matt Slocum / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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UConn’s Isaiah Whaley, right, and Villanova’s Jeremiah Robinson-Earl leap for a rebound during a game earlier this season.Matt Slocum / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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UConn’s Tyler Polley (12) is fouled as he makes a basket against Providence earlier this season.David Butler II / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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In UConn’s first year back in the Big East, it has claimed an award it dominated back in its heyday.
UConn men snare huge win at Seton Hall behind Isaiah Whaley, Adama Sanogo, R.J. Cole
David Borges
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Sound familiar?
Twenty years later, and just a few blocks down the road, Hurley added to his legend as a program-builder on Wednesday night at the Prudential Center. Behind Isaiah Whaley’s double-double and defensive dominance and strong efforts by a pair of Jersey Boys, UConn rolled to a 69-58 win over Seton Hall that clinched a third-place finish in the Huskies’ first year back in the Big East and Hurley’s third year at the helm.
“Looking where we were that March/April (2018) when we came in, being a 180 KenPom, the different programs we were sandwiched between, and now, in Year 3, going up in weight and having a chance to go 11-6 if we win on Saturday, and having us back in the NCAA tournament,” Hurley marveled, “we recruited the right guys, we’ve developed them, we’ve built a culture, the players we’ve inherited helped us build a culture. T
Nine months later, fencing comes down around the church where Trump stood with a Bible
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
March 1, 2021
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A worker on Monday straps fencing that surrounded St. John s Church in Washington.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.
WASHINGTON - H Street downtown was nearly deserted and few people noticed Monday morning when workers at St. John s Church took down dozens of sections of black steel mesh fencing, a barrier that had gone up during the tumultuous summer of 2020 when the church wound up at the center of national debates about race, religion and security.
Across a small park from the White House, St. John s had been known for decades as the president s church for its elite congregation, but in June made news worldwide. As protests against police brutality and racism boiled across the country, someone threw a flammable substance through a basement window at the church, igniting a small fire. Then, after federal law e