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For a team lacking a quality win for 20 months, they seem to be coming in bunches at the moment. Four in a row has Uconn skyrocketing up the Big East standings (15-5, 5-3) and having played the last two without top scorer Jerome Dyson and bench spark plug Doug Wiggins makes this run even more impressive.

One crucial positive story coming out of the suspensions is that Stanley Robinson has arrived, as the team's now number 2 option on offense he really had no other choice, and he has been fantastic. After the game in a backhanded compliment session, Rick Pitino did make a good point on how the Huskies have come together like a "wounded tiger" and are dangerous right now. One thing that could hurt the Huskies is legs, making last night's win even more impressive seeing as they had the short layoff from Saturday afternoon's thriller in Bloomington.

AJ Price continued his marvelous play during this run netting 20 points and chipping in 7 boards -- he has been the best guard in the Big East over the last 3 weeks hands down. Connecticut returns to Hartford on Saturday for a CBS battle against their rival the Pitt Panthers, It sounds like Dyson might play, but I suspect Wiggins (who could be a 3 time positive tester for grass tomorrow) will be out for a bit.

Calhoun has great appreciation for what his nine scholarship players are getting done,

"The character they display makes me proud," Calhoun said. "I'm incredibly proud."

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Uconn Over Ville

Pot found near Wiggins' car

Calhoun has clearly had it once again with the media and this time actually throws some blame at the Uconn athletic department. It appears that Calhoun is close to reaching his breaking point and to me it seems as if this part of the job will have him leave his post long before he wants to stop actually coaching. It goes with the territory to a certain extent, no doubt about that, but the horde has become a machine intent on publishing negativity all the time. Some of the "undisclosed reasons" that other coaches can pass of do not work at this state university and the full time job of dealing with the Uconn beat writers can at times be a Herculean task. You read some of his comments and you start to wonder how much longer he sticks it out. Hey as long as the newspapers sell its all good, right?

Waterbury Republican -- Calhoun blast AD, media over treatment of suspended players