UConn vs. Villanova Men's Basketball Notes

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2011-12 CONNECTICUT BASKETBALL Game #27 - February 20, 2012, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pa. --- 7 p.m. OVER THE AIR

Husky Notables  With 869 career wins, Jim Calhoun is No. 6 on the

NCAA career wins list and No. 3 among active head coaches, trailing only Mike Krzyzewski (922) and Jim Boeheim (882), through games of 2/18.

TELEVISION: ESPN Sean McDonough (pbp) Bill Raftery (analyst) Jay Bilas (analyst)

 UConn has a 142-86 (.623) record on ESPN/espn2 since

RADIO: UConn Radio Network WTIC-AM 1080 Joe D’Ambrosio (pbp) Wayne Norman (analyst)

 UConn shot 60 percent against St. John’s on Dec. 31.

WTIC-Hartford, (1080-AM) WILI-Willimantic (1400-AM) WLIS-Old Saybrook (1420-AM) WMRD-Middletown (1150-AM) WSUB-Groton (980-AM)

Jim Calhoun’s first season in 1986-87. The Huskies are 4-4 on ESPN/espn2 in 2011-12 and 63-48 on the networks in the last 10 seasons. Tonight’s game is the second of three straight UConn games on ESPN.

Villanova Wildcats

Connecticut Huskies

11-15 overall 4-10 BIG EAST

16-10 overall 6-8 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)

Thu Fri Sat

24 25 26

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, 63-75 L, 60-67 W, 64-57 W, 67-53 L, 67-70 L, 57-60 L, 48-50

at #14 Georgetown Seton Hall (XL) at #24 Louisville at #2 Syracuse DePaul (GP) #12 Marquette (XL) at Villanova Syracuse (GP) at Providence

espn2 SNY ESPN CBS SNY ESPN ESPN ESPN SNY

L, 44-58 W, 69-46 L, 59-80 L, 67-85 W, 80-54 L, 64-79 7:00 9:00 7:00

Pittsburgh (GP)

ESPN/espn2

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

Noon

 UP NEXT: UConn returns to action on Saturday, February 25, facing Syracuse at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs on ESPN College GameDay. Festivities will begin at 8 a.m., with the Syracuse-UConn game scheduled for 9 p.m.

THE GAME: The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team faces Villanova at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa., on Monday, February 20, at 7 p.m. The game will be televised by ESPN as part of its Big Monday package. UConn enters the contest with a record of 16-10 overall, 6-8 in the BIG EAST, coming off a 79-64 loss over Marquette on February 18 at the XL Center. The Huskies are being paced by All-America candidate Jeremy Lamb at 17.3 points per game, Bob Cousy Award candidate Shabazz Napier at 13.0 points and 5.8 assists per contest, freshman Ryan Batright at 10.4 points per game and four-time BIG EAST Rookie of the Week freshman Andre Drummond at 10.0 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 2.5 blocks per game. UConn is 2-6 on the road this season, 2-5 in BIG EAST road games. Villanova is 11-15 overall and 4-10 in the BIG EAST after a 74-70 overtime loss to Notre Dame on February 18. The Wildcats are 9-4 at home this season, 3-4 in BIG EAST home games.

DECEMBER Sat

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)

FOR MORE INFO ON UCONN BASKETBALL PLEASE CONTACT: PHIL CHARDIS Assistant Director of Communications

phil.chardis@uconn.edu; twitter: @uconnmbbsid Office-- 860-486-3531; Mobile-- 860-771-3314

2011-2012 University of Connecticut Basketball Media Notes February 20, 2012 vs. Villanova UConnHuskies.com


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