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He banked in a desperate three-pointer, streaked upcourt for emphatic dunks, played with grace and determination and gave the Huskies all they could handle right up to the final buzzer.

As a child, the worst time of the year has to be the weeks leading up to Christmas.

A few bonus notes from the UConn-Duke post game press conference: -- When informed that ESPN's Doug Gottlieb called his team alarmingly unathletic, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski responded: "He should be an expert on alarmingly non-athletic. So I'll have to take a look at that a little bit closer because it comes from an expert who actually knows what ...

Senior guard Jerome Dyson, lost late last season with a knee injury, is back and healthy and ready to lead UConn to the Promised Land.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2009-2010 Connecticut Huskies. The basketball season didn't start Wednesday night.

The game that started with more wins between the coaches than any in Division I history was far from an instant classic.

For a few fleeting moments in its 81-55 victory over Louisiana State on Wednesday night, Connecticut looked as if it had not skipped a beat since the Final Four.

Jim Calhoun continues to count down the games until 6-10 forward Ater Majok is handed a uniform.

There are points in a season that lend themselves to big-picture analysis, times that call for a deep breath, a look back and a look ahead.

No. 12 UConn is headed to New York next week for the NIT Season Tip-Off semifinals Nov.

It's one of the greatest venues in all of basketball. Madison Square Garden. The Big Apple.

Three games into the regular season, UConn is still searching for its identity. And that frustrates coach Jim Calhoun.

UConn's Jerome Dyson, left, goes up for two of his 23 points against Hofstra's Miklos Szabo during the second half of the Huskies' 76-67 win Tuesday night.

UConn found itself in real trouble Tuesday night at Gampel Pavilion, backed up against a wall by upstart Hofstra and facing the possibility of having its plans for a trip to New York ruined.

Stanley Robinson scored 18 points leading five Connecticut players in double figures as the No.

Providing "help" to a basketball teammate isn't always a good thing, especially if your help leaves a more dangerous scorer wide open.

Jim Calhoun spent the better part of the game slapping chairs, clapping sarcastically, screaming at the top of his lungs and stomping onto the court for colorful face-to-face meetings with players.

When William & Mary's Quinn McDowell put a back-door move on UConn forward Gavin Edwards and easily laid the ball in, it made the score 9-7. It wasn't a huge basket.

Jerome Dyson scored 27 points and No. 12 Connecticut opened its season with a 75-66 win over William & Mary on Friday night.

Games such as UConn 's season opener tonight against William & Mary are primarily about establishing momentum, fine-tuning weaknesses, getting players acclimated to a new system and stockpiling victories against teams of inferior size and talent.