This Is UConn: The Story of College Basketball’s New Kings
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Published 2024-04-20
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Origins of UConn Basketball
04:24 - First Coach Hired
05:39 - Wilder Tasker and the First Tastes of Success
06:57 - Hugh Greer, the Godfather of UConn
09:41 - UConn's first NCAA Tournament
12:46 - Demise of Greer
13:49 - Fred Shabel
14:39 - Birth of the Big East
17:04 - Jim Calhoun
20:19 - The "Dream Season"
23:50 - 1999 National Champions
26:50 - Kemba 5 Games in 5 Days
28:26 - Demise of Calhoun
29:16 - Kevin Ollie
30:59 - Demise of Ollie
31:50 - Dan Hurley
35:59 - Outro
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All Comments (21)
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I'm a UConn alum myself (1980). Back when I was there, men's soccer and women's field hockey were the marquee sports. Men's basketball was pretty good (they reached the Sweet Sixteen in 1976), but women's basketball was an afterthought. We had a team, but it was irrelevant. I had to say, I graduated from the University of Connecticut because if I said UConn, people would think I was referring to that Canadian territory next to Alaska. We've come a long way, baby!
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Who needs blue blood, when your the New Blood. Total dominance. 6 titles since 1999.
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There’s just something special about how the. UConn culture is all about unselfishness, teamwork, simply outworking and out hustling the other team, and when they go on.a run, and the other team calls a time out, and the UConn chant starts. It allways gives me goosebumps
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Really enjoyed this! My only gripe would be I think Ollie deserves far more responsibility for what happened than is portrayed here, but this is 10/10 masterpiece. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
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UConn class of ‘84 here. Corny Thompson era. What I came here to say is that my father attended Ellsworth High School during the time that Hugh Greer was coach there, as well as boys gym teacher. Coach Greer treated everyone with grace, whether you were on the team, or just a kid in gym class. Very classy man.
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As a UConn alum, graduating in 1966 (the Fred Shabel, Toby Kimball, Wes Bailosuknia, Tommy Penders era), I really appreciate your chronicle of UConn basketball.
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UConn is the New England Patriots (6 Super Bowls since 2001) of college basketball.
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UConn has been dominating (on and off) men’s and women’s college basketball for the past 25 years. Give credit where credit is due!!
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Great video as a current UConn student and someone who grew up in CT.
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Whoever did this it was an excellent job! I remember sneaking into the old field house in the 80's and sitting right behind the bench. We have come a long long way. I hate the term blue blood. We are a True Blood. The basketball capital of the world!!!
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Hell of a job man you knocked this out the park!
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UConn has been dominating men’s college basketball on and off since 1999. It’s time to give UConn’s men’s basketball their flowers.
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Great vid bro
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UConn is a True Blood 💙
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What a phenomenal job you did with this video!
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Excellent video 👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Excellent video. Due to time restraints, I planned to stop watching after a minute or two, but I could not stop watching.
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Enjoyed . Thank you
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In the first photo of Dee Rowe, former UCONN Great Tony Hanson is on Dee's left. Saw him many times along with Al Weston, Lee Otis Wilson, Joey Whelton, John Thomas. Tremendous Teams.
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Bleed Blue❗️
