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Too many missed free throws, no three-pointers, too many turnovers, too many second chances for Duke.

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

It's been a week since UConn last played, a week spent analyzing and tweaking in an effort to be better prepared for better competition.

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.

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.

"It was all effort," UConn forward Gavin Edwards said. Of the 6-foot-9 Edwards, coach Jim Calhoun said, "We have no four man." Edwards was only a piece of the frontcourt defense and rebounding problems, but a big piece.

Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, given academic clearance by the NCAA on Monday, is back in the fold.

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.

Few people, let alone athletes, go through college without a nickname. When the two were battling in Gampel Pavilion the other day, UConn point guard Kemba Walker was "Antigua" and former UConn swingman Denham Brown, who has spent a few days recently working out with the Huskies, was "Jamaica." Forget that Brown is from Canada and Walker is from ...

There's little chance that Jerome Dyson's membership in the Injury of the Week club will expire any time soon.

Jerome Dyson has always been a player of blood, bandages and braces, a shooting guard of reckless abandon.

UConn's 106-67 exhibition victory over AIC was a nice first step toward the season for the Huskies.

For UConn coach Jim Calhoun , Wednesday was supposed to be a night of answers, a chance to see how his players would look and function upon trading practice jerseys for white uniforms.

It should be an interesting exhibition opener for the UConn men's basketball team.

It took UConn men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun a matter of seconds Tuesday to name four members of the starting lineup for tonight's exhibition opener against American International at the XL Center .

The way Jerome Dyson plays, the other nine players on the court can often resemble bowling pins being toppled.

UConn coach Jim Calhoun just held court with a handful of writers in his office for close to an hour.

Steve Sobel, a Springfield-based shooting specialist and motivational speaker, has longstanding ties with Jim Calhoun and the UConn program, going back to UConn's recruitment of Kevin Freeman.

Yes, Connecticut lost center Hasheem Thabeet, the most intimidating post defender in the country last season.