Just when the “Wanted” posters were about to go up on campus, UConn Huskies men’s basketball small forward Stanley “Sticks” Robinson decided that he was going to play some basketball, some really good basketball.
Robinson had by far the best game of his abbreviated season yesterday as he had 18 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocked shots. You could see the expression on his face that the game was fun again where as before you could tell he was going through the motions. Jim Calhoun had said earlier in the week, he may go to a 3-guard set against the Friars because of matchups but with the way Robinson played he didn’t have to do that.
The key now is for Robinson to build upon his game yesterday. They are going to need him tomorrow night because Louisville isn’t going to roll over and play dead for the Huskies.
Matt Stout of the Norwich Bulletin, Neill Ostrout of the Connecticut Post and David Borges of the New Haven Register all have postgame notes on the UConn men’s basketball team.
Stanley Robinson provided the spark for the Huskies [New Haven Register]
Mike Anthony has some extras from yesterday’s win over Providence [Hartford Courant]
Hasheem Thabeet’s triple-double helped the Huskies [The News-Times]
Stanley Robinson broke out his slump yesterday [Hartford Courant]
The Friars got swatted out of Storrs yesterday [The Sun Chronicle]
Hasheem Thabeet was just the 7th person in UConn men’s history to record a triple-double [Hartford Courant]
David Gillett has his analysis of yesterday’s win over Providence [UConn Huskies Basketball]
Academics will keep Charles Okwandu out until next year [Norwich Bulletin]
It’s another double bonus at UConn [Hartford Courant]
The Stanley Robinson of old was back yesterday [Waterbury Republican-American]
The flawed Huskies will probably be No. 1 and we should enjoy it [New London Day]
Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register has some postgame notes from the UConn women’s basketball team.
John Altavilla has some extras from yesterday’s win over Georgetown [Hartford Courant]
UConn is the ‘basketball capital of the world’ [The News-Times]
Geno Auriemma is lobbying for top honors for Renee Montgomery [Hartford Courant]
The UConn women hit blackjack in the win over Georgetown [Norwich Bulletin]
The UConn women took charge late in the first half [Hartford Courant]
These 21 players intend to play for the UConn football team next year [Hartford Courant]
The UConn men’s hockey team fell to Holy Cross 4-1 [UConnHuskies.com]
The UConn women’s hockey team lost to Providence 5-1 [UConnHuskies.com]