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The story of the 2022-23 UConn Men's Basketball National Championship run from the perspective of a life-long UConn fan.Visit our website www.22threads.com for more information about the episode, to view the design and to sign-up for our email list for bonus content & more!Follow me on Twitter: @ItsMediocreDanWatch this episode on YouTube: @itsmediocredanThis podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by The University of Connecticut, UConn, The Big East, The NCAA, any entities or any peo...

The Huskies first season did not get off to a great start under Coach Mora. Early on they suffered a handful of injuries to key players, including a broken foot by star wide receiver Cameron Ross and a knee injury to starting quarter back Ta'Quan Robinson in the first game of the year.​Connecticut started the season with a 1-4 record after a brutal slate to open up the campaign. But Mora's squad returned to The Rent with a chance to inflict pay back on Fresno State, who they had lost to 45-0 ...

The University of Connecticut began playing football in 1896.​For more than a century UConn was a small regional power and in the 1990s was still competing below the top NCAA Division, commonly called FBS. UConn hired a new Athletic Director, Lew Perkins, who made it his mission to move the Huskies football program from Division 1-AA to the big time, FBS.​The program began it's transition in 2000 and under Coach Randy Edsall quickly started showing signs of progress. They notched their first ...

The UConn Women's Basketball team entered the 2002-03 season coming off a perfect 39-0 record and National Title from the year prior. The team, however, lost 4 of it's 5 starters to the WNBA draft.The Huskies rolled to an 11-0 record, setting up their first big test of the season, a match-up vs Tennessee in Hartford. After a thrilling 63-62 OT win, UConn was now only 3 games away from breaking the all-time consecutive win streak record, 54 games, for women's basketball. Which Louisiana Tech s...

UConn Baseball was founded in 1896 when the university was was still know as Storrs Agricultural School. During the first 51 seasons the team competed as an independent playing mostly local competition, including local high schools.In 1936 the Huskies hired Joseph Orleans Christian as their head coach. At the time, Coach Christian was also the head coach of the football team, where he is second all time in wins with 66, and the basketball team.During his tenure across 4 decades he helped lead...

Going up in the Bronx and with UConn the dominant team in the Northeast during his childhood, UConn was Kemba Walker's dream schoolKemba's career at UConn started in the 2008-09 season when he was the back-up to senior AJ Price on a loaded Huskies squad that would reach the Final Four.After a strong sophomore season as the lead point guard, Kemba entered his junior season as one of only 3 upperclassmen on the 2010-11 UConn team. A team that didn't have many expectations outside of Storrs to p...