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Here is my advance for Saturday’s game against Rutgers … The shots have looked the same to UConn freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis over the past two games. Each one she took she felt as though it was going in the basket. Just it did when she scored 25 points in back-to-back games against Pacific and Stanford [...]

UConn has won seven straight games against Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights enter Saturday’s meeting with the Huskies at Gampel Pavilion reeling after a 54-36 loss at No. 20 Georgetown Jan. 28 and a 71-41 loss to No. 2 Notre Dame at home Tuesday. Rutgers has shot a combined 30.5 percent from the field (1-of-21 3-pointers) [...]

The Huskies had seen Kevin Hart perform in movies such as Scary Movie 4, Soul Plane, Fool’s Gold, Along Came Polly and Superhero Movie. They have see some of his stand-up comedy clips on YouTube. And they were in attendance Wednesday when Hart headlined UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Now the Huskies can [...]

Overcoming obstacles is nothing new for UConn guard Caroline Doty. She has pushed past three tears of the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee to resume her career. She overcame a sprained left ankle this preseason and, most recently, a bone bruise in her left knee. Returning to the court, though, is only the [...]

Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie was asked to comment on the significant contribution of UConn’s 6-foot-3 freshman center Kiah Stokes following Monday’s game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. At first, McCallie did not know quite how to answer the question. So she took a look at the final boxscore for some assistance. When she saw that [...]

Tiffany Hayes has crashed to the floor so many times during her career that you just expect her to bounce back up and continue competing. But after she banged heads with Duke’s Shay Selby with 3:24 left in the first half Monday Hayes did not get right back up. She remained on the floor for [...]

The Huskies had an 11-point lead at No. 1 Baylor with 13:17 left in the game Dec. 18. They lost 66-61. The Huskies led by as many as eight in the second half at No. 2 Notre Dame Jan. 7 and had a chance to win the game in the final 20 seconds of regulation. [...]

The selection process must have been as easy as it has been in recent memory for Big East officials. How could anyone other than UConn senior Tiffany Hayes be named the conference Player of the Week? Not after the ridiculous week she had. Hayes averaged 34.0 points (21-of-30 FG; 8-of-12 3-pointers), 8.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists [...]

Here’s my advance for Monday’s nationally televised showdown between No. 3 UConn and No. 5 Duke … There were high expectations when Bria Hartley joined the UConn women’s basketball program last season. She was a talented guard with exceptional playmaking and scoring ability. There was a toughness about her and a propensity to be a [...]

UConn coach Geno Auriemma, as usual, is not placing a great amount of significance on Monday’s Big Monday match-up at No. 5 Duke. He sees it as a chance for the Huskies to continue to improve and a chance to play well on the road against a talented team. The Huskies have won the last [...]

Senior Tiffany Hayes has been riding the best stretch of her career over the past few weeks. She has scored in double figures in a career-high 10 straight games. She has had at least five rebounds in a career-high six straight games. Hayes is averaging 19.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.3 steals during [...]

Tiffany Hayes walked into the postgame interview room today wearing a UConn warm-up suit, a backpack and holding a blue baseball cap. She took her position in the far corner and began to answer questions. Hayes finished with a game-high 33 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and three steals in a season-high 39 minutes in [...]

Freshman Kiah Stokes came to UConn with the potential to make an immediate impact. She earned All-American honors as Linn-Mar High in Iowa. And with 6-foot-5 sophomore Stefanie Dolson as the lone legitimate post player in the primary rotation for the third-ranked Huskies, an opportunity for Stokes to earn ample playing time presented itself. Stokes, [...]

Junior guard Caroline Doty has been fully cleared and will start Saturday against South Florida at the XL Center (1 p.m. CPTV). She did not play Wednesday at Syracuse after suffering a bone bruise in her left knee at DePaul Jan. 21. “I feel good,’’ Doty said. “The few days (off) definitely helped out. I’m [...]

UConn-bound recruit Breanna Stewart has been named the 2011 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year, it was announced today. She was a member of the gold-medal winning 2011 USA U-19 World Championship Team that competed in Puerto Montt, Chile July 21-31 and the 2011 USA Pan American Games Team that competed in Guadalajara, Mexico [...]

UConn coach Geno Auriemma wanted no part of accepting full credit for the impressive stretch that Tiffany Hayes currently finds herself extending by the game. Auriemma did not really take any credit at all, actually. Yet, it was a conversation that Auriemma and Hayes shared several weeks ago that has since turned Hayes’ season around. [...]

CPTV will broadcast The Geno Auriemma Show: Special Edition, an on-location interview session taped before a live audience, Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. The show will air prior to UConn’s game against No. 20 Georgetown at Gampel Pavilion at 4 p.m. The program, which will be hosted by CPTV color analyst Meghan Culmo, is taped [...]

UConn-bound recruit Breanna Stewart, a 6-foot-4 star post player from North Syracuse, N.Y., was again in attendance Wednesday at the Carrier Dome to watch most of her future teammates take apart the Orange.  It was only natural following the game that a member of the local media asked UConn coach Geno Auriemma about the top [...]

As expected Caroline Doty did not play in tonight’s 95-54 rout of Syracuse due to a bone bruise in her problematic left knee. As expected, Huskies’ coach Geno Auriemma said that the plan remains for her to return to practice Friday. Doty is listed as probable for Saturday’s game against South Florida at the XL [...]

In a release today, Nike unveiled its newest creation: the Nike Hyper Elite Platinum uniform. UConn is the only school Nike has selected to wear the uniforms for its men’s and women’s basketball teams. The men will wear them Sunday against Notre Dame at the XL Center. The women will wear them against Notre Dame [...]