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Uconn rolls into form with three solid wins over La Salle (89-81), Miami (76-63) and Wisconsin (76-57) to take home the Paradise Jam Championship in the Virgin Islands. A team that came in with a lofty ranking, to high for most, might have made some believers in this trip to the Caribbean.

I am not sure if they are the number two team in the land, but they appear to be well on their way. Both Miami and Wisconsin came in with top 20 rankings and both could not contain Connecticut over 40 minutes. If this team adds Stanley Robinson and Ater Majok in early December, as expected, the sky could be the limit.

We now know that;

• Kemba Walker is a big time impact freshman
• Jerome Dyson (21pts v Wisconsin) is focused and scoring
• AJ Price is getting into form and showing a nice stroke
  
• Hasheem (PJAM MVP) can play a big role, albeit when he wants to

It was good to see the Huskies open it up from the outside a bit and great to see the old 2-2-1 press back at times in the Wisconsin game, this has the makings of a very fun season...Yesterday they hung out at the beach and were the last team to leave the islands this morning. The 5-0 Huskies return to action on Saturday against Bryant in Hartford.

Notes...Doug Wiggins got arrested up at UMASS for an attempted B & E, well done Doug...congrats to Uconn men's soccer who knocked off UVA 2-0 yesterday in Charlottesville to advance to the NCAA 3rd round...the Red Bulls luck ran out in the MLS Cup final on Sunday, kudos to Frankie for leading Columbus to their first title, oh and check out Hedjuk celebrating in style with the Crew fans here...Barry Melrose waited along time for a return to coaching -- looks like he should have waited a bit longer...the Giants are the best team in the NFC -- are the Jets the best in the AFC? -- could be...Coach Randy Edsall is back to being considered a dope on the message boards after a road loss to USF (where Lorenzen looked awful), mere days after people were pouting about him possibly leaving for Syracuse -- get a grip folks...Have a great Thanksgiving everyone, I'm going dark meat all the way...