Durzblog

Monday afternoon, Connecticut climbed to the top of The AP Top 25 for the first time in nearly three years -- the fifth time in school history that the men and women are simultaneously No.1.

On Monday evening they let the everyone know that their ranking is legit, 68-51. Uconn took the floor on the road --in a tough venue at Freedom Hall w/ 20,000 amped up Card fans, against a top 10 team -- and outclassed them throughout. With the win (their 8th already over a ranked opponent and 10th in a row) -- Uconn got to 10-1 in the league and only Marquette (8-0) stands above them in the Big East. Uconn will have to navigate a tough remaining schedule including two with Pitt, but have positioned themselves well to have a run at Calhoun's 11th regular season BE crown...

Adrien (18,7) and Thabeet (14,11) were terrific and Huskies got enough out of the back court to win this one rather handily, going three guards nearly exclusively and getting some solid contributions from Walker, Price, Dyson and Austrie. Thabeet's presence, 4 blocks did not tell the story, made Louisville into a jump shooting team -- and they are not very good in that regard. Louisville did get a great night from Terrence Williams who led all scorers with 26 points, unfortunately for him, that was more than half of his teams total points.

Rick Pitino impressed, "We played decent basketball all season, but we ran into a team that was much better than us tonight. They are ... very deserving of their ranking. They were just a much better basketball team and totally out of our league. They are a great basketball team on both ends of the floor."

Two games in Storrs up next for Uconn, hosting Michigan on Saturday and then Syracuse on Wednesday evening. Uconn is putting itself into position to get one of the double byes and go directly to round three of the BET. Success there should have Uconn in the East Regional with 1st and 2nd in Philly and potentially 3rd and 4th in Boston --

but lets not get ahead of ourselves just yet.