2011-12 CONNECTICUT BASKETBALL Husky Notables With 865 career wins, Jim Calhoun is No. 6 on the NCAA career
Game #15-- January 7, 2012, The RAC, Piscataway, N.J. 8:00 p.m. OVER THE AIR TELEVISION: SNY Bob Picozzi (pbp) Mark Adams (analyst) RADIO: UConn Radio Network WTIC-AM 1080 Joe D’Ambrosio (pbp) Wayne Norman (analyst)
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
No. 8 AP / No. 8 ESPN-USA WTIC-Hartford, (1080-AM) WILI-Willimantic (1400-AM) WLIS-Old Saybrook (1420-AM) WMRD-Middletown (1150-AM) WSUB-Groton (980-AM)
Connecticut Huskies
8-7 overall 0-2 BIG EAST
12-2 overall 2-1 BIG EAST
2011-12 UConn Men’s Basketball Date
Opponent
NOVEMBER Wed 2 Sun 6 Fri 11 Mon 14 Thu 17 Sun 20
AIC (exhibition) (GP) CW Post (exhibition) (XL) Columbia (GP) Wagner (GP) Maine (XL) Coppin State (XL)
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TV
Time
UConnHuskies.com W, 78-35 UConnHuskies.com W, 91-61
ESPNU SNY SNY SNY
W, 70-57 W, 78-66 W, 80-60 W, 87-70
Battle 4 Atlantis, Imperial Arena Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas vs. UNC Asheville HDNet W, 73-63 vs. UCF Versus L, 63-68 vs. #22 Florida State Versus W, 78-76 OT
BIG EAST/SEC Challenge 3 Arkansas (XL) ESPN
Thu 8 Sun 18 Thu 22 Wed 28 Sat 31 JANUARY Tue 3 Sat 7 Mon 9 Sat 14 Wed 18 Sat 21 Sun 29 FEBRUARY Wed 1 Sat 4 Mon 6 Sat 11 Wed 15 Sat 18 Mon 20 Sat 25 Tue 28 MARCH Sat 3
W, 75-62
#25 Harvard (GP) Holy Cross (XL) Fairfield (XL) at USF St. John’s (XL)
espn2 SNY SNY SNY SNY
W, 67-53 W, 77-40 W, 79-71 W, 60-57 W, 83-69
at Seton Hall at Rutgers West Virginia (XL) at Notre Dame Cincinnati (GP) at Tennessee Notre Dame (XL)
SNY SNY espn2 espn2 espn2 CBS SNY
L, 75-63 8:00 7:00 11:00 am 7:00 4:00 Noon
at Georgetown Seton Hall (XL) at Louisville at Syracuse DePaul (GP) Marquette (XL) at Villanova Syracuse (GP) at Providence
espn2 SNY ESPN CBS SNY ESPN/espn2 ESPN ESPN SNY
7:00 Noon 7:00 1:00 7:00 Noon 7:00 9:00 7:00
Pittsburgh (GP)
ESPN/espn2
Noon
2012 BIG EAST Championship Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. Tue-Sat 6-10 BIG EAST Championship ESPN *— BIG EAST Conference Opponent gp- Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, Conn.; XL- XL Center, Hartford, Conn. All times Eastern Standard
UP NEXT: UConn returns to action on Monday, January 9
to play host to West Virginia in Hartford, Conn. The game begins at 7 p.m. and will be aired on espn2.
THE GAME: The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team faces Rutgers on Saturday at the RAC in Piscataway, N.J. at 8 p.m. The game will be televised by SportsNet New York. UConn enters the contest with a record of 12-2 and come off a 75-63 defeat at Seton Hall on January 3 in Newark, N.J. The Huskies are being paced by All-America candidate Jeremy Lamb at 18.9 points per game and by Bob Cousy Award candidate Shabazz Napier at 14.1 points and 6.4 assists per contest. UConn is ranked No. 8 nationally in the Associated Press poll and No. 8 in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 ranking. Rutgers is 8-7 after an 85-64 loss at home against West Virginia on January 4. UConn owns a 34-13 all-time mark against Rutgers.
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wins list and No. 3 among active head coaches, trailing only Mike Krzyzewski (911) and Jim Boeheim (872). Calhoun’s totals do NOT include games during suspension. Coach Calhoun will be back on the bench against Rutgers after serving a three-game suspension. The Huskies went 2-1 during his absence. Connecticut ranks second in the BIG EAST Conference in FG percentage (48.5) and FG percentage defense (36.8).The Huskies are currently ranked No. 4 in the nation with 7.57 blocks per game. UConn shot 60-percent against St. John’s on Dec. 31. It was just the fourth time in seven seasons dating back to the start of the 2004-05 campaign that the Huskies hit over 60-percent from the field.
2011-12 UConn Basketball Roster # 1 2 3 4 5 10 11 12 13 14 21 22 23 25 34 40
Name Enosch Wolf DeAndre Daniels Jeremy Lamb Brendan Allen Niels Giffey Tyler Olander Ryan Boatright Andre Drummond Shabazz Napier P.J. Cochrane Kyle Bailey Roscoe Smith Benjamin Stewart Michael Bradley Alex Oriakhi Ethan Waite
Yr. Pos. Ht. So. C 7-1 Fr. F 6-8 So. G/F 6-5 Fr. G 6-3 So. G/F 6-7 So. F 6-9 Fr. G 6-0 Fr. C 6-10 So. G 6-1 Sr. G 6-2 Sr. G 6-3 So. F 6-8 Sr. F 6-5 RFr. C/F 6-10 Jr. F/C 6-9 Sr. G 5-10
Wt. 245 195 180 187 205 225 160 270 171 200 170 205 205 225 240 165
Hometown/Last School Goettingen, Germany/Wilbraham & Monson Los Angeles, Calif./W.H. Taft (Calif.) HS Norcross, Ga. /Norcross HS Windsor, Conn./Windsor HS/Bridgeton Acad. Berlin, Germany/Heinrich-Schliemann HS Mansfield, Conn. /E.O. Smith HS Aurora, Ill. /East Aurora HS Middletown, Conn./St. Thomas More/Capitol Prep
Roxbury, Mass. /Charlestown HS Newtown, Conn./Newtown HS Lancaster, N.H./White Mountains Regional HS Baltimore, Md. /Oak Hill (Va.) Academy Denver, Colo. /Kent Denver HS Chattanooga, Tenn. /Tyner Academy Lowell, Mass. /Tilton School East Hartford, Conn./East Hartford HS
COACHING STAFF: Head Coach: JIM CALHOUN, 26th Season at UConn (American International ‘68) Associate Head Coach: GEORGE BLANEY, 11th Season at UConn (Holy Cross ‘61) Assistant Coach: KEVIN OLLIE, 2nd Season at UConn (UConn ‘95) Assistant Coach: GLEN MILLER, 9th Season at UConn (UConn ‘88) Director of Basketball Administration: KARL HOBBS, 9th season at UConn (UConn ‘84) Assistant Dir of Basketball Administration: KEVIN FREEMAN, 1st season at UConn (UConn ‘06) PRONUNCIATIONS: Enosch Wolf (eee-nish) Niels Giffey (kneelzz Gihf-EYE) Shabazz Napier (shuh BAZZ (rhymes with Jazz) NAY pier) Alex Oriakhi (OAR-EE-AAH-KEE)
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2011-2012 University of Connecticut Basketball Media Notes January 7, 2012 vs. Rutgers UConnHuskies.com