20 Facts About UConn Huskies

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UConn Huskies are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Connecticut, located in Storrs.

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UConn Huskies's teams participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big East Conference for all sports except football and men's and women's ice hockey.

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UConn Huskies were founding members of the original Big East Conference in 1979, which became the American Athletic Conference in 2013.

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In 2020, UConn Huskies joined the new Big East Conference, reuniting it with many of the schools against which it played for over three decades in the original Big East.

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5.

In 2011, UConn Huskies baseball was ranked 1st in the Big East Conference preseason poll.

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In 2013, UConn Huskies baseball became the first 8 seed to win the Big East Tournament.

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In 1979, UConn Huskies was one of the seven founding schools of the American Athletic Conference, which was originally created to focus on basketball, and the last remaining school that signed the charter to remain following the 2013 split.

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UConn Huskies rose as a national program throughout the 1990s, winning five more Big East Regular Season and three more Big East Tournament Championships, but the Final Four still eluded Calhoun and the program until the 1999 NCAA Tournament.

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In 2006, UConn Huskies became the third school ever to have four players drafted in Round One of the NBA Draft, and the first school ever to have five players selected in the two-round draft.

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Under the tutelage of Auriemma, UConn Huskies has become one of the few schools that consistently competes for the national title in women's basketball.

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11.

UConn Huskies were part of one of the fiercest rivalries in all of women's college sports.

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12.

In 2002, UConn Huskies became the only school ever to have four women drafted among the top 10 of the first round of the 2002 WNBA Draft, with National Player of the Year Sue Bird drafted 1st, Swin Cash drafted 2nd, Asjha Jones drafted 4th, and Tamika Williams Raymond drafted 6th.

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13.

In 2004, UConn Huskies became the second school ever, and the first in Division I, to win the men's NCAA National Championship and the women's basketball title in the same season and did it again in 2014.

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14.

UConn Huskies's was named Big East Player of the Year again in 2009.

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15.

UConn Huskies set the national consecutive victory record at 78 when it won its seventh National Championship at the Alamodome.

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16.

UConn Huskies is not only a pipeline to both the NBA and the WNBA, but to coaching ranks throughout the sport of basketball.

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17.

UConn Huskies football reached Division I-A status in 2000, was included in official Division I-A statistics for the first time in 2002, and became a full Big East member in 2004.

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18.

UConn Huskies has been recognized as having the fastest progression out of I-AA in NCAA history, as it was invited into a BCS conference only two years after becoming a full I-A member, was bowl-eligible in its first season in I-A, and was invited to a bowl game in its first season as a conference member.

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19.

UConn Huskies honored Jasper for the remainder of 2009 and 2010, which would have been his senior year.

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20.

Since then, UConn Huskies has used the XL Center, a former NHL venue in downtown Hartford, as its primary men's home.

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