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"I think we can be a very good basketball team next year. We have a lot of work to do, but from a basketball standpoint, we're very excited. ... In some ways we'll be more talented than this year." Jim Calhoun

Starting Five for Next Year
-Walker
-Dyson
-Robinson
-Majok
-Okwandu


09/10' Non conference schedule is taking form:
--at Michigan
-- home with Texas
-- preseason NIT along with Duke, LSU and Arizona State.
-- will likely be part of the preseason SEC-Big East challenge -- playing Kentucky at Madison Square Garden is the hot rumor

Best of Luck Hasheem
Thabeet made himself the 11th Husky to declare early for the draft earlier this month (Eight of the previous 10 were selected in the lottery). Hash is projected to be a top-3 pick.

Anybody taking off?
Uconn continues to recruit, adding to speculation that there will be a transfer or two, seeing as no more scholarships are available. Okwandu has appeared to have straightened out his grades and is spoken about as a key player next year, so that would leave Haralson, Beverly and Mandeldove as the likely candidates. Mandeldove seems to be ok with not playing and is close to getting his degree, not many transfer for their senior year, I say he is staying for sure. That would leave Beverly or Haralson, neither is going to be a star at Uconn -- Beverly appears most likely to play. I would guess that if anyone leaves it would be Haralson. If he does highly touted JUCO, Rico Pickett, will take the last scholarship, all of this speculating has no basis mind you.

Yahoo correctionn
A correction was released by Yahoo last week, which is fine, no big deal. But I thought that these guys released the story when it was ready to go, after long deliberations and fact checking. This thing was rushed to release it during the Sweet Sixteen, right or wrong, anyone who denies that (like Jeff Jacobs) is being an idiot. There do seem to be some glaring oversights by the Yahoo reporters, not knowing what year Nate Miles was classified in and not knowing that the contact periods are different for juniors and seniors...It all begs the question of why this report needed to be taken so seriously by those at ESPN, if nothing else Calhoun deserved the benefit of the doubt from local reporters. We will see what happens this summer I guess.