Connecticut Huskies

UConn was tested Friday night, even occassionally made to look inferior by a La Salle team that rotates one fluid athlete after another.

With Jerome Dyson and Craig Austrie staying behind to attend a class and arriving Thursday night, UConn scrambled to prepare for its Paradise Jam opener tonight against La Salle.

After a 99-56 victory over Hartford Monday that demanded more of UConn than the final score would indicate, coach Jim Calhoun joked about freshman point guard Kemba Walker's approach.

Geno Auriemma would rather production flow seamlessly from starters to reserves so the designation becomes irrelevant and that's what he got Thursday. His players gave him a rousing 99-55 victory before 10,313 at the XL Center

Kalana Greene doesn't remember much about the last time UConn played San Diego State. But she had a convenient excuse.

Here's the problem when you are queen of the hill in women's college basketball: Even wins can be no-win situations.

STORRS, Conn. (Friday, November 21, 2008) - The University of Connecticut men's soccer team picked up a 1-0 victory over Fairfield University on Friday night in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship at Morrone Stadium.

STORRS, Conn. (Friday, November 21, 2008) - The University of Connecticut men’s hockey team returned home against the Rochester Institute of Technology for their first home series since the weekend of October 24 and 25 when they swept Army. Since that sweep, the Huskies (3-8-0, 3-3-0 Atlantic Hockey) went on a six-game skid which was snapped Friday in a 2-1 win over RIT(4-7-1, 3-3-1 Atlantic Hockey). UConn won their third game of the year, all of which have come at the Mark E. Freitas Ice Forum.

ST. THOMAS, U.S.V.I. (Friday, November 21, 2008) - Senior Jeff Adrien scored 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, while freshman Kemba Walker (Bronx, N.Y.) scored 23 points off the bench to lead the No. 2 nationally-ranked University of Connecticut men’s basketball team to a 89-81 victory over La Salle University Friday in the opening round of the 2008 Paradise Jam at the University of the Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center.