UConn MBB Notes vs. Bryant

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2014-15 UCONN BASKETBALL GAME #1 - NOV. 14, 2014, GAMPEL PAVILION, STORRS, CONN. - 7 P.M.

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.

ON THE AIR

TELEVISION SNY Gary Apple (pbp) Tim Welsh (analyst) Kerith Burke (sideline) 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) WGCH-Greenwich (1490-AM) Sirius-126

 UConn is in its fifth season as a television partner

UConn Huskies 32-8 overall

Bryant Bulldogs 18-14 overall

(2013-14)

(2013-14)

10-6 Northeast

12-6 American

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 W, 68-59

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

of the SNY network. The Huskies have a record of 37-7 (.841) in games televised by SNY. UConn went 11-2 on SNY in 2010-11, 9-4 on SNY in 2011-12, 12-1 in 2012-13, and 5-0 last year. Tonight’s game is the first of five UConn games on SNY this season.

  UP NEXT: UConn will compete in the Puerto Rico

Tip-Off in San Juan on Nov. 20-23. The Huskies open the tournament against the College of Charleston on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 12:30 p.m. (EST). The game will be televised on ESPNU.

THE GAME: The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team opens the 2014-15 season against Bryant University at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs at 7 p.m. The game will be televised by SNY. UConn, out of the American Athletic Conference, begins the season nationally-ranked (AP-#17/USA Today-#15) after coming off a 32-8 season and the program’s fourth NCAA Championship. It was UConn’s ninth 30-win season in the last 25 years and its 30th season of 20 wins or more. The Huskies are led by co-captains, senior guard Ryan Boatright and sophomore center Amida Brimah. Bryant, out of Smithfield, R.I., and the Northeast Conference, is coming off an 18-14 season, 10-6 in the league. The Bulldogs are led by senior guards Dyami Starks and Joe O’Shea and junior guard Shane McLaughlin.

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 14, 2014 vs. Bryant UConnHuskies.com


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