2014-15 UCONN BASKETBALL EXHIBITION #2 - NOV. 9, 2014, XL CENTER, HARTFORD, CONN. - NOON
HUSKY BITES
Kevin Ollie is in his third season as the 18th head
coach of the UConn men’s basketball program, with a career record of 52-18. He is the only head coach in UConn history to reach 50 victories in his first two years and his .743 winning percentage is the best of any UConn coach who has coached more than 20 games.
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UConn is beginning its 39th season of competition
Assumption Greyhounds
UConn Huskies
7-19
32-8
overall 5-16 Northeast-10 (2013-14)
overall 12-6 AMERICAN (2013-14)
UCONN BASKETBALL SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date
Opponent
NOVEMBER Tue 4 SCSU (exhib.) (GP) Sun 9 Assumption (exhib.) (XL) Fri
14
Bryant (GP)
TV
Time/Result
UConnhuskies.com UConnhuskies.com
W, 70-62 noon
SNY
7 pm
Puerto Rico Tip-Off, Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan 20 vs. College of Charleston ESPNU 12:30 pm Thu 21 vs. Dayton/Texas A&M ESPN Network TBD Fri Sun 23 vs. TBD ESPN Network TBD Sun 30 DECEMBER Fri 5 Sun 14 Thur 18 Mon 22 28 Sun Wed 31 JANUARY Sat 3 6 Tue 10 Sat Tue 13 17 Sat Thu 22 Sun 25 Thu 29 FEBRUARY 1 Sun Wed 4 Sat 7 Thu 12 14 Sat 19 Thu 22 Sun 25 Wed MARCH 1 Sun Thu 5 7 Sat
Texas (GP)
ESPN2
noon
Yale (GP) Coppin State (XL) vs. Duke (Izod Center) Columbia (WBA) Central Conn. (XL) *Temple (XL)
SNY SNY ESPN SNY SNY ESPN2
7 pm 4 pm 8 pm 7:30 pm 1 pm 1 pm
at Florida *at USF *Cincinnati (XL) *at Tulsa at Stanford *UCF (GP) *USF (XL) *at Cincinnati
CBS ESPN2 ESPN2 CBS SN ESPN2 CBS SN CBS SN ESPN2
2 pm 7 pm 11 am 9:30 pm 9 pm 7 pm noon 8 pm
*at Houston *East Carolina (GP) *at Tulane *Tulsa (XL) *at SMU *at Memphis *Tulane (GP) *at East Carolina
CBS SN ESPNU CBS SN ESPN/ESPN2 ESPN ESPN/ESPN2 CBS SN ESPNU
3 pm 7 pm 6 pm 7 pm 9 pm 9 pm 4 pm 7 pm
*SMU (XL) *Memphis (GP) *at Temple
CBS ESPN/ESPN2 ESPN/ESPN2
2 pm 9 pm TBD
American Athletic Conf. Championship, XL Center, Hartford, Conn. Thu-Sun 12-15 AAC Championship ESPN Network TBD
*— American Athletic Conference Opponent GP - Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, Conn. XL - XL Center, Hartford, Conn.; WBA - Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn. All times Eastern Standard
in the XL Center, formerly the Hartford Civic Center. Since the Huskies’ first appearance in the building in 1975-76, they have a 240-86 (.736) record there. Today’s game is the first of eight games UConn will host in the XL Center during the 2014-15 season.
UP NEXT: UConn will open the 2014-15 regular
season on Friday, Nov. 14, at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs at 7 p.m. against Bryant University of the Northeast Conference. The game will be televised by the SNY network.
THE GAME: The No. 17/15 University of Connecticut men’s basketball team plays its second and final exhibition game of the 2014-15 season, meeting the Division II Greyhounds of Assumption College for the first time in the history of the schools. UConn is coming off a 70-62 win over Southern Connecticut State University in its first exhibition game Tuesday at Gampel Pavilion. The 2014-15 Huskies are led by senior guard Ryan Boatright, the Preseason Player of the Year in the American Athletic Conference, who had 19 points against SCSU. Redshirt sophomore Sam Cassell Jr. added 17 points in his first outing as a Husky. Assumption, out of Worcester, Mass., and the Northeast-10 Conference, played Holy Cross in its first exhibition game on Friday. The Greyhounds return seven of their top eight scorers from last season.
2014-15 UCONN BASKETBALL ROSTER # Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/Last School 1 Phillip Nolan Jr. F 6-10 237 Milwaukee, Wis. /Riverside University HS 3 Terrence Samuel So. G 6-4 202 Brooklyn, N.Y./Victory Collegiate HS 5 Daniel Hamilton Fr. G/F 6-7 190 Los Angeles, Calif./St. John’s Bosco HS 10 Sam Cassell Jr. R-So. G 6-4 192 Baltimore, Md./Chipola College (Fla.) 11 Ryan Boatright Sr. G 6-0 175 Aurora, Ill. /East Aurora HS 12 Kentan Facey So. F 6-9 206 Trelawny, Jamaica /L.I. Lutheran HS 14 Rakim Lubin Fr. F 6-8 260 Miami, Fla./Buford (Ga.) HS 21 Omar Calhoun Jr. G 6-5 205 Brooklyn, N.Y. /Christ The King HS 22 Pat Lenehan Sr. G 6-3 190 Cheshire, Conn./Xavier HS Jr. F 6-3 225 New Fairfield, Conn./Avon Old Farms 23 Nnamdi Amilo 35 Amida Brimah So. C 7-0 230 Accra, Ghana /Archbishop Carroll HS 44 Rodney Purvis R-So. G 6-4 205 Raleigh, N.C./North Carolina St. COACHING STAFF: Head Coach: KEVIN OLLIE, 3rd season as HC, 5th season at UConn (UConn ‘95) Associate Head Coach: GLEN MILLER, 12th season at UConn (UConn ‘88) Assistant Coach: KARL HOBBS, 12th season at UConn (UConn ‘84) Assistant Coach: RICKY MOORE, 3rd season at UConn (UConn ‘99) Director of Basketball Administration: KEVIN FREEMAN, 4th season at UConn (UConn ‘06) Director of Scouting-Video: DAVID SEVUSH, 3rd season at UConn (UConn ‘10) Director of Player Development: DANNY GRIFFIN, 1st season at UConn (Rhode Island ‘96) PRONUNCIATIONS: Amida Brimah (Ahh-ME-da BRY-mah) Rakim Lubin (Rah-KIM LOO-bin)
Sam Cassell Jr. (Cas-SELL) Nnamdi Amilo (NOM-dee ah-MEE-lo)
FOR MORE INFO ON UCONN BASKETBALL PLEASE CONTACT: PHIL CHARDIS Assistant Director of Communications
phil.chardis@uconn.edu; twitter: @UConnMBB Office: 860-486-3531; Mobile: 860-771-3314
2014-2015 University of Connecticut Basketball Media Notes November 9, 2014 vs. Assumption College UConnHuskies.com