UConn Huskies | ||||
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University | University of Connecticut | |||
First season | 1900-01 | |||
All-time record | 1,805–980 (.648) | |||
Head coach | Dan Hurley (6th season) | |||
Conference | Big East | |||
Location | Storrs, Connecticut | |||
Arena | Harry A. Gampel Pavilion 10,167 XL Center 15,564 | |||
Nickname | Huskies | |||
Colors | National flag blue and white[1] | |||
Uniforms | ||||
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NCAA tournament champions | ||||
1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament Final Four | ||||
1999, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament Elite Eight | ||||
1964, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
1956, 1964, 1976, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996*, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament round of 32 | ||||
1979, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996*, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament appearances | ||||
1951, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1976, 1979, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996*, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||
Conference tournament champions | ||||
1976, 1979, 1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2011, 2016, 2024 | ||||
Conference regular season champions | ||||
1925, 1926, 1928, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2024 *vacated by NCAA |
The UConn Huskies men's basketball program is the NCAA Division I men's college basketball team of the University of Connecticut, in Storrs, Connecticut. They currently play in the Big East Conference and are coached by Dan Hurley.
UConn has won six NCAA tournament championships (1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2023 and 2024), which puts the program in a tie with North Carolina for third-most all time and is the most of any program since the tournament expanded to 64 teams. The Huskies have won eight Big East tournament championships (tied for most all time) and 11 Big East regular season championships (most all time). UConn has 36 NCAA tournament appearances (tied for 13th-most all time) and has played in seven NCAA Final Fours (10th-most all time), 13 NCAA Elite Eights (11th-most all time) and 19 NCAA Sweet Sixteens (tied for 11th-most all time). UConn won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship in 1988 and the NIT third-place game in 1997, with 13 NIT appearances in total. The Huskies also have one American Athletic Conference tournament championship and two ECAC New England regional tournament championships.
Numerous players have gone on to achieve professional success after their time at UConn. In 2011, six former Huskies were included in SLAM Magazine's 500 Greatest NBA Players of All-Time: Ray Allen, Richard Hamilton, Clifford Robinson, Caron Butler, Ben Gordon and Emeka Okafor.[2] Kemba Walker is generally regarded as the greatest player in the history of the Charlotte Hornets franchise.[3][4][5][6] Other successful former Huskies include Andre Drummond, Rudy Gay, Donyell Marshall, Toby Kimball, Jeremy Lamb, Charlie Villanueva, Scott Burrell, Travis Knight, Kevin Ollie, Jake Voskuhl, Shabazz Napier, Marcus Williams and Jordan Hawkins.
Men's basketball at UConn began in 1901 with a single game played by Connecticut Agricultural College against Windham High School in January of that year. The college team won, and by 1903 basketball was a varsity sport.[7] The team's first head coach was John F. Donahue, who coached the school from 1915 to 1919. The team's first African American player was Harrison Fitch, who was controversially benched by coach John Heldman for a 1934 game against the US Coast Guard Academy.[8] One of the first true stars from Connecticut was Hartford's Bernie Fisher. He was captain of the 1945 team, which was the first UConn team to play in Madison Square Garden.[9]
After graduating from the Connecticut Agricultural College, former player Hugh Greer returned to his alma mater as a freshman coach. He was later named head coach of the Huskies six games into the 1946–47 season.[10] Greer led Connecticut to a perfect 12–0 mark for the remainder of his first season. He posted a record of 16–2, this was the best single season finish in school history to that point. In 1954, he famously led UConn to a 78–77 victory against undefeated Holy Cross, breaking the Crusaders' 47-game home winning streak and keeping them out of the NCAA tournament.[11] Holy Cross won the NIT title a few weeks later. In 1956, Greer led UConn to the Sweet 16, where they lost in a close game to Temple.[12]
Under Greer, UConn won 12 Yankee Conference titles in 16 seasons, including ten consecutive titles from 1951 to 1960. Greer also led UConn to its first seven NCAA berths and one NIT appearance while compiling an overall head coaching record of 286–112. Greer died of a heart attack in 1963, ten games into the 1962–63 season. He was replaced by assistant George Wigton.[13]
The following season, UConn named Fred Shabel as Greer's permanent replacement at head coach. Shabel led the program to its first-ever Elite Eight after the Huskies upset Princeton in the Sweet 16. UConn's Dom Perno stole the ball from future Hall of Famer Bill Bradley to seal the 52–50 win. The Huskies earned three NCAA berths in four years under Shabel before he abruptly stepped down as head coach to become the athletic director at the University of Pennsylvania.[14]
After Shabel's departure, UConn offered the head coaching job to Larry Brown, then a young assistant coach at North Carolina. Brown declined, saying he felt he was too "young" to take a head coaching position. The job ultimately went to Burr Carlson, an assistant under Shabel. Carlson led UConn to back-to-back losing seasons for the first time in over 30 years and was fired.[15]
UConn named Dee Rowe head coach ahead of the 1969–70 season. Under Rowe, the Huskies returned to form, winning the Yankee Conference title in his first year. Rowe posted six winning seasons in eight years, with two NCAA berths and two NIT appearances. In 1976, UConn won the ECAC New England regional championship to earn an NCAA berth and then beat Hofstra in the first round of the 1976 NCAA Division I basketball tournament to reach the Sweet 16 for the fourth time ever.
At the end of the 1975–1976 season, the Yankee Conference dropped basketball, which left UConn as an independent. Rowe coached the Huskies' first season as an independent before retiring at 48 years old. He later cited "burn out" as the reason for his decision.[16]
Former UConn star Dom Perno was tapped as Rowe's successor for the 1977–78 season. Perno oversaw UConn's transition from an independent program to a member of the newly formed Big East Conference in 1979, where UConn was one of the seven founding schools.[17] Under Perno, the Huskies had some early success, winning an ECAC New England regional championship in 1979 and earning one NCAA berth and three NIT appearances over his first five years. However, after four consecutive losing seasons, Perno resigned on April 14, 1986.[18]
UConn hired Northeastern head coach Jim Calhoun to take over the program in the 1986–87 season.[19] Calhoun's first team finished the season with a record of 9–19. In 1988, the team showed significant improvement and gained a berth in the National Invitation Tournament. UConn went on a run in the tournament and defeated Ohio State 72–67 at Madison Square Garden to win the NIT, the school's first national basketball title.[20]
The 1990 "Dream Season" would bring UConn basketball back to the national stage. Led by Chris Smith, Nadav Henefeld, Scott Burrell, Tate George, Rod Sellers and John Gwynn, UConn went from unranked in the preseason to winning the Big East Regular Season and Tournament Championships, both for the first time.[21] 1990 also marked the opening of Gampel Pavilion, the program's new on-campus home.[22] In the NCAA tournament the Huskies garnered a #1 seed in the East Region, but trailed Clemson 70–69 with 1 second remaining in the Sweet 16. Burrell's full-court pass found Tate George on the far baseline. George spun, fired, and hit a buzzer-beater that is known in Connecticut simply as "The Shot".[23] They would be eliminated on a buzzer-beater two days later by Duke, losing in overtime 79–78.[24]
During the 1994–1995 campaign, the Huskies hosted Syracuse on ESPN. During an exciting stretch of the second half of that game, ESPN color commentator Dick Vitale claimed that Storrs, CT was the "capital of the basketball world" as both the men's and women's teams were having undefeated seasons so far.[25] The Huskies beat Syracuse but lost to Kansas to end their undefeated season.
UConn continued to rise as a national program throughout the 1990s, winning five more Big East regular season and three more Big East tournament championships, as well as reaching several regional finals. The Final Four still eluded Calhoun and the program until the 1999 NCAA tournament. With Richard "Rip" Hamilton leading the way, they claimed the program's first national title that same year. Calhoun's teams would go on to win two more national championships during his tenure at UConn.
Calhoun was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005,[26] and officially announced his retirement on September 13, 2012.[27]
After the breakup of the old Big East in 2013, UConn remained as a member of the American Athletic Conference, the legal successor to the original conference. Until leaving the AAC in 2020 to join the new Big East, UConn was the only charter member of the original Big East still playing in that conference.
Kevin Ollie was named UConn's next head coach following Jim Calhoun's retirement.[28] Ollie played for Calhoun from 1991 to 1995 and was a key player on those early 1990s Husky teams. During his first season, the Huskies record was 20–10. That year the Huskies were banned from postseason play by the NCAA because of a low APR score in 2010.[29] In Ollie's second season, the team made the NCAA tournament. On March 30, 2014, Ollie became the first UConn coach other than Jim Calhoun to lead the Huskies to a Final Four.[30] They won the NCAA tournament on April 7, 2014, defeating the University of Kentucky 60–54.[31] His team was the first #7 seed to ever win the NCAA tournament. Ollie led Connecticut to the American Athletic Conference tournament championship and another NCAA tournament appearance in 2015–16.[32] The Huskies defeated Colorado 74–67 in the Round of 64 but were eliminated by the #1 overall seed Kansas Jayhawks 73–61 in the Round of 32.[33]
Kevin Ollie was fired for just cause related to an NCAA investigation of the program on March 10, 2018.[34]
Former Wagner College and Rhode Island head coach Dan Hurley was introduced by UConn on March 23, 2018, to be the next head men's basketball coach following the firing of Kevin Ollie.[34] After losing in the opening round of the NCAA tournament in his third and fourth years, Hurley broke through in his fifth year, winning the NCAA national championship in 2023.[35]
In 2024, Hurley led UConn to its first Big East regular season title since 2006 and its first Big East tournament championship since 2011.[36] UConn received the #1 overall seed for the first time ever in the 2024 NCAA tournament.[37] UConn won its second consecutive title with a win over Purdue in the national championship game. Their scoring margin of +140 for their six games (23.3 points per game) is an NCAA Division I record.[38][39][40]
The Huskies were the top seed in the West region, and a win over Gonzaga in the regional final sent UConn to Tropicana Field for the program's first Final Four appearance. They defeated Ohio State 64–58 in the semi-final to face off against Duke in the final. Despite having been ranked #1 for half of the year, the Huskies entered the national championship game as 9-point underdogs.
UConn won their first national title with a 77–74 victory. Richard Hamilton was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
1999 NCAA Tournament | ||
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Round | Opponent | Score |
Round #1 | #16 Texas-San Antonio | 91–66 |
Round #2 | #9 New Mexico | 78–56 |
Sweet 16 | #5 Iowa | 78–68 |
Elite 8 | #10 Gonzaga | 67–62 |
Final Four | #4 Ohio State | 64–58 |
Championship | #1 Duke | 77–74 |
In 2004, the Huskies returned to the Final Four. Once again they faced Duke, this time in the National Semifinal, and used a late run to beat the Blue Devils 79–78. Two nights later, led by Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon, Connecticut won their second national title with an 82–73 victory over Georgia Tech. Okafor was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
One day later the UConn women's basketball team also won a national title, making UConn the first and only school in NCAA Division I history to have its men's and women's basketball programs win a national championship in the same season.
2004 NCAA Tournament | ||
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Round | Opponent | Score |
Round #1 | #15 Vermont | 70–53 |
Round #2 | #7 DePaul | 72–55 |
Sweet 16 | #6 Vanderbilt | 73–53 |
Elite 8 | #8 Alabama | 87–71 |
Final Four | #1 Duke | 79–78 |
Championship | #3 Georgia Tech | 82–73 |
The 2011 Huskies won 11 straight games in postseason play, the final six of which resulted in the program's third national championship. On April 4, 2011, they defeated the Butler Bulldogs, 53–41. UConn junior Kemba Walker was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Many consider UConn's win in the Championship Game to be a great defensive performance, as the Huskies held Butler to only 18.8% shooting from the field (a record for field goal percentage defense in a championship game) and tied a title game record with ten blocked shots.[43] An analysis by Sports Illustrated columnist Luke Winn credited the Huskies' defense by demonstrating, for instance, that they blocked or altered a staggering 26.6% of Butler's shots – compared to just 3.8% by Pittsburgh and 12.1% by VCU in earlier rounds.[44] The 53 points scored by Connecticut were, in turn, the lowest point total by a winning team in a championship game since 1949.
2011 NCAA Tournament | ||
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Round | Opponent | Score |
Round #1 | #14 Bucknell | 89–52 |
Round #2 | #6 Cincinnati | 69–58 |
Sweet 16 | #2 San Diego State | 74–67 |
Elite 8 | #5 Arizona | 65–63 |
Final Four | #4 Kentucky | 56–55 |
Championship | #8 Butler | 53–41 |
In 2014, led by American Athletic Conference Player of the Year Shabazz Napier, UConn became the first #7 seed to win the NCAA Championship, getting past No. 1 seed Florida, No. 2 seed Villanova, No. 3 seed Iowa State, and No. 4 seed Michigan State, before defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 60–54 in the championship game in Arlington, Texas. UConn is undefeated in the state of Texas in the Final Four (6–0).
As in 2004, the UConn women's basketball team also won a national title, making UConn the first and only school in NCAA Division I history to have its men's and women's basketball programs win a national championship in the same season twice.
2014 NCAA Tournament | ||
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Round | Opponent | Score |
Round #1 | #10 Saint Joseph's | 89–81 OT |
Round #2 | #2 Villanova | 77–65 |
Sweet 16 | #3 Iowa State | 81–76 |
Elite 8 | #4 Michigan State | 60–54 |
Final Four | #1 Florida | 63–53 |
Championship | #8 Kentucky | 60–54 |
In 2023, the UConn Huskies won all of their tournament games by more than 10 points. Their path to the championship began against #13 seed Iona in the first round, in which they would trail at the half but eventually pull away in the end. The Huskies would then beat #5 Saint Mary's, #8 Arkansas, and #3 Gonzaga. The national semifinal would be a 13-point defeat of #5 Miami, their smallest margin of victory in the tournament.
The national championship would be a 17-point defeat of #5 San Diego State University as UConn won their fifth national title, tying Duke and Indiana for the fourth spot in national championships.
2023 NCAA Tournament | ||
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Round | Opponent | Score |
Round #1 | #13 Iona | 87–63 |
Round #2 | #5 Saint Mary's | 70–55 |
Sweet 16 | #8 Arkansas | 88–65 |
Elite 8 | #3 Gonzaga | 82–54 |
Final Four | #5 Miami | 72–59 |
Championship | #5 San Diego State | 76–59 |
In 2024, the UConn Huskies became the first team to repeat as NCAA tournament champions since the Florida Gators in 2007. They won their sixth title, putting them at a tie with North Carolina for the third-most championships of all time. Once again, they won every tournament game by double digits; their smallest margin of victory in the entire tournament was 14 points against Alabama in the Final Four. The Huskies also set the record for the largest combined margin of victory in all their games with 140 points; and largest-average margin of victory of 23.3 points per game.[45] Because of that, the 2024 Huskies are considered one of the most dominant teams in the history of March Madness, following up 2023's strong performance.
2024 NCAA Tournament | ||
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Round | Opponent | Score |
Round #1 | #16 Stetson | 91–52 |
Round #2 | #9 Northwestern | 75–58 |
Sweet 16 | #5 San Diego State | 82–52 |
Elite 8 | #3 Illinois | 77–52 |
Final Four | #4 Alabama | 86–72 |
Championship | #1 Purdue | 75–60 |
Source[46]
The Huskies have appeared in the NCAA tournament 36 times. Their combined record is 69–31. They have been to seven Final Fours and are six-time National Champions (1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2023, 2024).
Year | Seed | Round | Opponent | Result |
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1951 | N/A | Sweet Sixteen | St. John's | L 52–63 |
1954 | N/A | First Round | Navy | L 80–85 |
1956 | N/A | First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game |
Manhattan Temple Dartmouth |
W 84–75 L 59–65 L 64–85 |
1957 | N/A | First Round | Syracuse | L 76–82 |
1958 | N/A | First Round | Dartmouth | L 64–75 |
1959 | N/A | First Round | Boston University | L 58–60 |
1960 | N/A | First Round | NYU | L 59–78 |
1963 | N/A | First Round | West Virginia | L 71–77 |
1964 | N/A | First Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
Temple Princeton Duke |
W 53–48 W 52–50 L 54–101 |
1965 | N/A | First Round | Saint Joseph's | L 61–67 |
1967 | N/A | First Round | Boston College | L 42–48 |
1976 | N/A | First Round Sweet Sixteen |
Hofstra Rutgers |
W 80–79OT L 79–93 |
1979 | #5 | Second Round | #4 Syracuse | L 81–89 |
1990 | #1 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#16 Boston University #9 California #5 Clemson #3 Duke |
W 76–52 W 74–54 W 71–70 L 78–79OT |
1991 | #11 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen |
#6 LSU #14 Xavier #2 Duke |
W 79–62 W 66–50 L 67–81 |
1992 | #9 | First Round Second Round |
#8 Nebraska #1 Ohio State |
W 86–65 L 55–78 |
1994 | #2 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen |
#15 Rider #10 George Washington #3 Florida |
W 64–46 W 75–63 L 60–69OT |
1995 | #2 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#15 Chattanooga #7 Cincinnati #3 Maryland #1 UCLA |
W 100–71 W 96–91 W 99–89 L 96–102 |
1996* | #1 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen |
#16 Colgate #9 Eastern Michigan #5 Mississippi State |
W 68–59 W 95–81 L 55–60 |
1998 | #2 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#15 Fairleigh Dickinson #7 Indiana #11 Washington #1 North Carolina |
W 93–85 W 78–68 W 75–74 L 64–75 |
1999 | #1 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#16 UTSA #9 New Mexico #5 Iowa #10 Gonzaga #4 Ohio State #1 Duke |
W 91–66 W 78–56 W 78–68 W 67–62 W 64–58 W 77–74 |
2000 | #5 | First Round Second Round |
#12 Utah State #4 Tennessee |
W 75–67 L 51–65 |
2002 | #2 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#15 Hampton #7 NC State #11 Southern Illinois #1 Maryland |
W 78–67 W 77–74 W 71–59 L 82–90 |
2003 | #5 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen |
#12 BYU #4 Stanford #1 Texas |
W 58–53 W 85–74 L 78–82 |
2004 | #2 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#15 Vermont #7 DePaul #6 Vanderbilt #8 Alabama #1 Duke #3 Georgia Tech |
W 70–53 W 72–55 W 73–53 W 87–71 W 79–78 W 82–73 |
2005 | #2 | First Round Second Round |
#15 UCF #10 NC State |
W 77–71 L 62–65 |
2006 | #1 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#16 Albany #8 Kentucky #5 Washington #11 George Mason |
W 72–59 W 87–83 W 98–92OT L 84–86OT |
2008 | #4 | First Round | #13 San Diego | L 69–70OT |
2009 | #1 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four |
#16 Chattanooga #9 Texas A&M #5 Purdue #3 Missouri #2 Michigan State |
W 103–47 W 92–66 W 72–60 W 82–75 L 73–82 |
2011 | #3 | Second Round Third Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#14 Bucknell #6 Cincinnati #2 San Diego State #5 Arizona #4 Kentucky #8 Butler |
W 81–52 W 69–58 W 74–67 W 65–63 W 56–55 W 53–41 |
2012 | #9 | First Round | #8 Iowa State | L 64–77 |
2014 | #7 | Second Round Third Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#10 Saint Joseph's #2 Villanova #3 Iowa State #4 Michigan State #1 Florida #8 Kentucky |
W 89–81OT W 77–65 W 81–76 W 60–54 W 63–53 W 60–54 |
2016 | #9 | First Round Second Round |
#8 Colorado #1 Kansas |
W 74–67 L 61–73 |
2021 | #7 | First Round | #10 Maryland | L 54–63 |
2022 | #5 | First Round | #12 New Mexico State | L 63–70 |
2023 | #4 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#13 Iona #5 Saint Mary's #8 Arkansas #3 Gonzaga #5 Miami #5 San Diego State |
W 87–63 W 70–55 W 88–65 W 82–54 W 72–59 W 76–59 |
2024 | #1 | First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#16 Stetson #9 Northwestern #5 San Diego State #3 Illinois #4 Alabama #1 Purdue |
W 91–52 W 75–58 W 82–52 W 77–52 W 86–72 W 75–60 |
*NCAA vacated all of UConn's games in 1996 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Totals above do not include vacated games.
The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition.
Year → | '79 | '90 | '91 | '92 | '94 | '95 | '96 | '98 | '99 | '00 | '02 | '03 | '04 | '05 | '06 | '08 | '09 | '11 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '21 | '22 | '23 | '24 |
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Seed → | 5 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1* |
*#1 Overall seed
The Huskies have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) 13 times. Their combined record is 15–12. They were NIT champions in 1988.
Year | Round | Opponent | Results |
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1955 | First Round | Saint Louis | L 103–110 |
1974 | First Round Quarterfinals |
St. John's Boston College |
W 82–70 L 75–76 |
1975 | First Round | South Carolina | L 61–71 |
1980 | First Round | Saint Peter's | L 56–71 |
1981 | First Round Second Round |
South Florida Minnesota |
W 66–55 L 66–84 |
1982 | First Round | Dayton | L 75–76 |
1988 | First Round Second Round Quarterfials Semifinals Final |
West Virginia Louisiana Tech VCU Boston College Ohio State |
W 62–57 W 65–59 W 69–60 W 73–67 W 72–67 |
1989 | First Round Second Round Quarterfinals |
Charlotte California UAB |
W 67–62 W 73–72 L 79–85 |
1993 | First Round | Jackson State | L 88–90 |
1997 | First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals 3rd Place Game |
Iona Bradley Nebraska Florida State Arkansas |
W 71–66 W 63–47 W 76–67 L 65–71 W 74–64 |
2001 | First Round Second Round |
South Carolina Detroit |
W 72–65 L 61–67 |
2010 | First Round Second Round |
Northeastern Virginia Tech |
W 59–57 L 63–65 |
2015 | First Round | Arizona State | L 61–68 |
The following is a list of Connecticut Huskies men's basketball head coaches. The team is currently coached by Dan Hurley, alongside associate head coach Kimani Young and assistant coaches Luke Murray and Tom Moore.
Tenure | Coach | Years | Record | Pct. |
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1900–1915[47] | No Coach | 15 | 45–44 | .506 |
1915–1919[47] | John Donahue | 4 | 11–23 | .324 |
1919–1921[47] | M.R. Schwartz | 2 | 14–14 | .500 |
1921–1922[47] | J. Wilder Tasker | 2 | 15–5 | .750 |
1922–1923[47] | Roy J. Guyer | 1 | 8–6 | .571 |
1923–1927[47] | Sumner Dole | 4 | 39–25 | .609 |
1927–1931[47] | Louis Alexander | 4 | 35–19 | .648 |
1931–1936[47] | John Heldman Jr. | 5 | 19–42 | .311 |
1935–1936[47] | J. Orlean Christian (interim) | 1 | 3–10 | .231 |
1936–1945[47] | Don White | 9 | 94–59 | .614 |
1945–1946[47] | Blair Gullion | 2 | 14–7 | .667 |
1946–1963[47] | Hugh Greer | 17 | 287–113 | .718 |
1963[47] | George Wigton (interim) | 1 | 11–4 | .733 |
1963–1967[47] | Fred Shabel | 4 | 72–29 | .713 |
1967–1969[47] | Burr Carlson | 2 | 16–32 | .333 |
1969–1977[47] | Donald "Dee" Rowe | 8 | 120–88 | .577 |
1977–1986[47] | Dominic "Dom" Perno | 9 | 139–114 | .549 |
1986–2012[47] | Jim Calhoun | 26 | 625–243 | .720 |
2012–2018[46] | Kevin Ollie | 6 | 127–79 | .617 |
2018–present[46] | Dan Hurley | 6 | 141–58 | .708 |
On December 26, 2006, UConn announced inaugural inductees into the "Huskies of Honor" recognition program, a class of 13 players and 3 coaches that were later introduced at halftime during the February 5, 2007 UConn-Syracuse game.[48] Former athletic director John Toner was inducted on February 28, 2009.[49] On April 5, 2011, Kemba Walker was the first men's basketball player to be added to the program since the inaugural inductees, an honor he was bestowed after leading the team to a national championship.[citation needed]
The Huskies of Honor are each recognized by a four by five foot panel which displays his name, jersey number and years of service, and a plaque which summarizes each's career accomplishments;[48] Both the panels and the plaques are on permanent display at Gampel Pavilion on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs, Connecticut.[50]
UConn Huskies retired numbers
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No. | Player | Pos. | Years played | No. ret. | Ref. |
34 | Ray Allen | SG | 1993–1996 | 2019 | [51] |
32 | Richard Hamilton | SG | 1996–1999 | 2024 | [52] |
On December 7, 2018, UConn announced that the #34 worn by Ray Allen would be permanently retired, effective with ceremonies to be held during the Huskies' final 2018–19 home game on March 3, 2019. In its announcement, UConn stated that going forward, number retirement would be reserved for former Huskies players inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, as Allen was earlier that year.
At the same time, the Huskies announced that the #50 worn by Rebecca Lobo, a 2017 Naismith Hall inductee, would be retired by UConn women's basketball, with ceremonies held during the season's final women's home game on March 2, 2019.[53]
UConn's announcement did not make it clear whether both numbers would be retired across both men's and women's programs, but a university spokesperson clarified that the retirements applied only to the teams that Allen and Lobo competed for, meaning that #50 will remain available in men's basketball and #34 in women's.[54]
On January 30, 2024, UConn announced that the #32 jersey worn by Richard Hamilton would be retired at Gampel Pavilion at halftime of UConn's game against Villanova on February 24.
Source[46]
Since the 1990s, UConn has been recognized as being a consistent pipeline for players to enter the National Basketball Association. During the 2006–2007 season, there were an NBA-high 14 former Huskies on active rosters. During the 2013–14 season, 13 former Huskies were on active NBA rosters. UConn has sent a total of 41 players to the NBA and ABA.
UConn has had 15 players selected as lottery picks in the NBA draft:
NBA Players Past and Present[76][77]
* Bold indicates active players.
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