UConn vs. Maryland Eastern Shore Men's Basketball

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2012-13 CONNECTICUT BASKETBALL Game #10 - December 17, 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 Bob Picozzi (pbp) Bob Wenzel (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 Radio-128

UConn basketball.

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

the SNY network. The Huskies have an all-time record of 24-6 (.800) in games televised by SNY. UConn went 11-2 on SNY in 2010-11, 9-4 on the network last year, and is 4-0 this season. Tonight’s game is one of 13 regular-season games on SNY this season.

 Former UConn coach Jim Calhoun finished his Hall

Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks 0-9 overall 0-1 MEAC

Connecticut Huskies 7-2 0-0

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 be back at

the XL Center Friday night, December 21, when the Huskies entertain the Rams of Fordham. The game, slated to begin at 7 p.m., will be televised by SNY. It is the second of three consecutive home games for the Huskies, all of them at the XL Center in Hartford.

THE GAME: The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team meets Maryland Eastern Shore, out of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, in a non-conference game at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. The game will begin at 7 p.m. and be televised by SNY. UConn (7-2) is coming off a 10-day break for final exams, following a 5749 victory over Harvard on Dec. 7 at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies are led by the guard tandem of junior Shabazz Napier (17.2 ppg) and sophomore Ryan Boatright (14.4 ppg, 4.6 apg). Sophomore forward DeAndre Daniels, coming off a creer-high 23 points vs. Harvard, is averaging 9.8 ppg. Maryland Eastern Shore (0-9) last played on Dec. 8, bowing at Cincinnati, 92-60. The Hawks are led by sophomore guard Kyree Jones, averaging 16.6 points 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 7 p.m. 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 17, 2012 vs. Maryland Eastern Shore UConnHuskies.com


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