Rich Elliot - CT Post

UConn guard Caroline Doty was held out of practice today. She did, however, participate in a weightlifting session and is listed as probable for Saturday’s game against No. 14 Georgetown at Gampel Pavilion. With three days between games this week, it provided Huskies’ coach Geno Auriemma with an opportunity to give Doty some rest. Plus, [...]

UConn-bound recruits Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck have been named McDonald’s All-Americans. The announcement comes one day after they were all named WBCA All-Americans. The McDonald’s All-American Game will be held March 28 at the United Center in Chicago (7:30 p.m.). Stewart will be a member of the East team. Jefferson and Tuck [...]

There are less than 500 tickets remaining for Saturday’s game between No. 3 UConn and No. 14 Georgetown at Gampel Pavilion (4 p.m.; SNY, CSNE). Fans are urged to wear pink as the game will be part of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund’s “Play 4 Kay’’ initiative. Fans can purchase tickets at this site and [...]

UConn sophomore Bria Hartley and freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis are among the 20 players named to the USBWA Midseason Watch List for the Women’s National Player of the Year. The list was selected by the association’s board of directors. Notre Dame has three players on the list (Skylar Diggins, Natalie Novosel and Devereaux Peters). Baylor (Brittney [...]

The Big East officially welcomed Memphis as its newest member today. It will join the conference as an all-sports member in the 2013-14 academic year and will boost the football membership to 12 schools once Pittsburgh and Syracuse bolt for the ACC and West Virginia to the SEC. Along with Memphis, the Big East has [...]

UConn-bound recruit Breanna Stewart has been named the 2012 State Farm/Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association (WBCA) National High School Player of the Year, the WBCA announced today. She will also join fellow UConn 2012 commits Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck in the WBCA All-America Game March 31 at the Pepsi Center in Denver as part of [...]

UConn has customarily been so good at not being sucked in by an opponent. The Huskies normally do not get flustered by the particular style of play employed by the opponent. They play their game and that’s that. But Tuesday against No. 20 Louisville they got caught. And it nearly proved costly. The Cardinals were [...]

There will never again be any questions regarding the level of toughness that UConn guard Caroline Doty possesses. Not after coming back from three ACL tears in her left knee. But there are instances when Doty proves exactly how tough she is when she summons the type of performance she did tonight in a 56-46 [...]

A recruiting source has confirmed that Erica McCall, a 6-foot-3 forward from Bakersfield, Calif., is the latest player to surface on UConn’s radar for the Class of 2013. Huskies’ assistant coach Marisa Moseley attended one of her games during a West Coast recruiting trip last week. McCall, who was a member of the 2011 gold-medal [...]

Not only was freshman center Kiah Stokes not bringing enough energy and effort to practice earlier this season, she lacked toughness in the lane too. She said that she would shy away from contact instead of initiating it. That seems to be no longer the case judging by her performance last week in wins over [...]

Here is my advance for tonight’s game at Louisville … The UConn women’s basketball team boasts several players with deft shooting and playing-making ability in its four-guard lineup. And freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis has proven to a prolific scorer off the bench. Entering tonight’s game against No. 20 Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center (7; CBSSN), [...]

The Huskies are urging all fans to wear pink to Saturday’s game against No. 14 Georgetown at Gampel Pavilion (4 p.m.). The game will be part of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund’s “Play 4 Kay’’ initiative. UConn is offering $10 tickets, while supplies last. That’s $12 off of the regular price. To take advantage of [...]

The spurt spanned only 68 seconds in the first half Saturday. But during the spurt Huskies’ senior guard Tiffany Hayes put on a show to help the Huskies pull away from No. 13 Rutgers. Hayes scored eight straight points to ignite a 19-2 run. She opened by making a jumper just inside the 3-point arc [...]

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. [...]