UConn vs. Fordham Men's Basketball Notes

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2012-13 CONNECTICUT BASKETBALL Game #11 - December 21, 2012, XL Center, Hartford, Conn., 7 p.m.

Ollie as the first new head coach of the Huskies in 26 years. Ollie is the 18th head coach in the history of

OVER THE AIR TELEVISION: SNY Doug Sherman (pbp) Bob Valvano (analyst) RADIO: UConn IMG Sports Radio Network WTIC-AM 1080 Joe D’Ambrosio (pbp) Wayne Norman (analyst) WTIC-Hartford, (1080-AM) WILI-Willimantic (1400-AM) WELI-New Haven (960-AM) Sirius-123, XM-190

UConn basketball.

 UConn is in its third season as a television partner of

the SNY network. The Huskies have an all-time record of 25-6 (.806) in games televised by SNY. UConn went 11-2 on SNY in 2010-11, 9-4 on the network last year, and is 5-0 this season. Tonight’s game is one of 13 regular-season games on SNY this season.

 Former UConn coach Jim Calhoun finished his Hall

Fordham Rams

Connecticut Huskies 8-2 0-0

2-8 overall 0-0 Atlantic 10

overall BIG EAST

2012-13 UConn Men’s Basketball Date

Opponent

NOVEMBER Thu 1 AIC (exhibition) (GP) Sun 4 UMass Lowell (exhibition) (XL) Fri Tue

TV

Time

UConnHuskies.com W, 78-63 UConnHuskies.com W, 100-62

Armed Forces Classic, Ramstein Air Base, Germany 9 vs. #14/14 Michigan State ESPN W, 66-62 13 Vermont (GP)

SNY

W, 67-49

U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Fri 16 vs. Wake Forest CBS SN W, 77-71 Sun 18 vs. Quinnipiac CBS SN W, 89-83 (2 ot) Mon 19 vs. New Mexico CBS SN L, 60-66 Sun 25 Stony Brook (GP) SNY W, 73-62 Thu 29 New Hampshire (XL) SNY W, 61-53 DECEMBER

of Fame career with 873 victories (6th all-time) and 1,253 games coached (3rd all-time).

 UP NEXT: Following tonight’s game, UConn will have a break

through Christmas, then return to action on Saturday night, December 29, at the XL Center, when the Huskies entertain Pac 12 opponent Washington. The game, slated to begin at 7:30 p.m., will be televised on ESPN2. It is UConn’s final non-conference game of the season.

THE GAME: The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team will take on the Fordham University Rams, out of the Atlantic 10 Conference, in a non-conference game at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., the second of three consecutive games in Hartford for the Huskies. The game will begin at 7 p.m. and be televised by SNY. UConn is coming off an 84-50 victory over Maryland Eastern Shore on Monday, the Huskies’ fourth win in their last five games. UConn is led by the guard tandem of junior Shabazz Napier (16.6) and sophomore Ryan Boatright (15.1). Fordham is coming off a 63-60 win over Princeton, snapping a five-game losing streak. The Rams are led by junior Branden Frazier (15.6 ppg) and senior Chris Gaston (12.5 ppg, 7.8 rebounds per game).

2012-13 UConn Basketball Roster

*at Marquette *DePaul (GP) *at Notre Dame *Louisville (XL) *at Pittsburgh *Rutgers (XL) *at Providence

ESPNU SNY SNY ESPN ESPN2 SNY ESPN/ESPN2

8 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 p.m. 7 p.m. noon 2 p.m. 7 p.m.

*USF (GP) *at St. John’s *at Seton Hall *Syracuse (XL) *Villanova (XL) *Cincinnati (XL) *at DePaul *Georgetown (GP)

SNY ESPNU SNY ESPN/ESPN2 ESPN/ESPN2 ESPN/ESPN2 SNY ESPN2

2 p.m. 7 p.m. noon 7 p.m. noon 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m.

# Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/Last School 0 Phillip Nolan Fr. F 6-9 210 Milwaukee, Wis. /Riverside University HS 1 Enosch Wolf Jr. C 7-1 240 Goettingen, Germany /Wilbraham & Monson 2 DeAndre Daniels So. F 6-8 195 Los Angeles, Calif. /W.H. Taft HS 4 Brendan Allen So. G 6-3 187 Windsor, Conn. /Windsor HS/Bridgeton Acad. 5 Niels Giffey Jr. G/F 6-7 205 Berlin, Germany /Heinrich-Schliemann HS 10 Tyler Olander Jr. F 6-9 225 Mansfield, Conn. /E.O. Smith HS 11 Ryan Boatright So. G 6-0 160 Aurora, Ill. /East Aurora HS 12 R.J. Evans Gr. G 6-3 210 Salem, Conn. /Norwich Free Acad./Holy Cross 13 Shabazz Napier Jr. G 6-1 171 Roxbury, Mass. /Charlestown HS 14 Pat Lenehan So. G 6-3 185 Middletown, Conn. /Xavier HS 20 Trey James Sr. G 5-9 168 Middletown, Conn. /Middletown HS 21 Omar Calhoun Fr. G 6-5 195 Brooklyn, N.Y. /Christ The King HS 22 Leon Tolksdorf Fr. F 6-8 220 Berlin, Germany /Leibniz-Oberschule Berlin HS 23 Dave Vandal Sr. F 6-2 200 Stonington, Conn. /UConn-Avery Point 25 Tor Watts Jr. G 6-1 200 Brooklyn, N.Y. /Xaverian HS/York Prep COACHING STAFF: Head Coach: KEVIN OLLIE, 1st Season as HC, 3rd Season at UConn (UConn ‘95) Associate Head Coach: GLEN MILLER, 10th Season at UConn (UConn ‘88) Assistant Coach: GEORGE BLANEY, 12th Season at UConn (Holy Cross ‘61) Assistant Coach: KARL HOBBS, 10th Season at UConn (UConn ‘84) Director of Basketball Administration: KEVIN FREEMAN, 2nd season at UConn (UConn ‘06) Assistant Dir. of Basketball Administration: RICKY MOORE, 1st season at UConn (UConn ‘99)

*at Cincinnati *at USF *Providence (GP)

SNY ESPNU ESPNU

2 p.m. 9 p.m. noon

PRONUNCIATIONS: Enosch Wolf (eee-nish) Niels Giffey (kneelzz Gif-EYE) Shabazz Napier (shuh BAZZ (rhymes with Jazz) NAY pier)

Jimmy V Classic, Madison Square Garden, New York City Tue 4 vs. #25/24 North Carolina St. ESPN L, 65-69 Fri 7 Mon 17 Fri 21 Sat 29 JANUARY Tue 1 Tue 8 Sat 12 Mon 14 Sat 19 Sun 27 Thu 31 FEBRUARY Sun 3 Wed 6 Sun 10 Wed 13 Sat 16 Thu 21 Sat 23 Wed 27 MARCH Sat 2 Wed 6 Sat 9

Husky Notables  A new era of UConn basketball has begun with Kevin

Harvard (GP) Maryland-Eastern Shore (XL) Fordham (XL) Washington (XL)

SNY SNY SNY ESPN2

W, 57-49 W, 84-50 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

BIG EAST Championship, Madison Square Garden, New York City

Tue-Sat 12-16 BIG EAST Championship

ESPN

*— BIG EAST Conference Opponent GP - Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, Conn.; XL - XL Center, Hartford, Conn. All times Eastern Standard

TBA

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

2012-2013 University of Connecticut Basketball Media Notes December 21, 2012 vs. Fordham UConnHuskies.com


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