Donnell Beverly News

Almost nine months after sustaining a torn meniscus, Jerome Dyson will return to the court today at Gampel Pavilion as UConn faces UMass-Lowell in the second of the Huskies' two exhibition games.

University of Connecticut men's basketball student-athletes Jerom Dyson and Donnell Beverly have both been cleared for full participation in practice and outside competition as of Friday.

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

The men's basketball team will close out the exhibition portion of their season Sunday as the Huskies host Division II UMass-Lowell at 1 p.m. in Gampel Pavilion.

Anybody waiting to see the return of senior Jerome Dyson from his season-ending knee injury Wednesday night will have to wait at least one game longer.

UConn men Gavin Keefe has worked at The Day since 1990 and is in his 18th season of covering the UConn mena s basketball team, including the national championship teams of 1999 and 2004.

All UConn freshman Alex Oriakhi could do was laugh after the Huskies' marathon of a first practice on Saturday at Gampel Pavilion.

Ray Allen was coming into the year healthy and comfortable with the Celtics system.

Madison Hoop Dreams concluded its 16th season of summer basketball camp in August with 345 shoreline youth attending at least one of the five weeks of Coach Bill Barker's camp.

Kemba Walker had made a couple of pull-ups in transition, knocked down a few longer shots, too.

Jim Calhoun will not be haunted by the ending. He's not going to lose sleep because of missed free throws, a dearth of bench scoring or anything else that cost UConn a place in the national championship game.

Greetings from the home office in Tahlequah, Oklahoma -- I mean Hartford. Well, I made it out of lovely Detroit, made it through Philly on U.S. Air and am back home now.