Ater Majok News

The UConn men's and women's basketball teams are in the midst of exams. With each team having played eight games, beat writers Mike Anthony and John Altavilla offer up what they've seen so far.

Daniel Orton got one of his two blocks Saturday against North Carolina's John Henson.

Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-7 junior wing from Forest Hills High in New York, was at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night to watch his future team - UConn .

John Wall had one more drive in him and the UConn basketball team didn't have an answer.

UConn returns today to the scene of its humbling loss to nationally ranked Duke, a Nov.

There isn't any overt enmity or hostility, but there may just a drop or two of bad blood between the participants in the second game of an SEC/Big East Invitational tonight at Madison Square Garden.

Jim Calhoun's comments after Sunday's victory over Harvard. First thing, congratulations to Tom and his team.

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

It may no longer be November, but another series of upsets last week has shaken up our Power Rankings .

They're back. Then again, they never really went away. Entering this college basketball season, most of the prognosticators and talking heads went out of their way to claim that the 16-team Big East was in a "rebuilding" mode.

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

UConn looked inside to pinpoint the root of its ugly but fiercely competitive defeat on Friday.

Maybe they were just waiting for a bigger stage. After three ho-hum wins at home over a trio of college basketball's also-rans, the UConn men came to Madison Square Garden in search of identity.

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

UConn coach Jim Calhoun didn't like what he saw from his team in its opening victory over William & Mary , but there is some value to sub-par performances this early in the season.

Kyle Lyddy remembers exactly how he became enamored with UConn men's basketball.

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.

The UConn men took a couple of pop quizzes in their first two games of the season.

Ater Majok was in his best street clothes again, Game 3 of the eight he has to sit out.

UConn lost a lot Friday night in the season opener against William & Mary . The Huskies lost the initial zip and passion that defined a particularly crisp beginning in what became a lackadaisical performance.