Paw Prints The Daily Roundup

It’s opening day for the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team as they get set to host the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in Gampel Pavilion at 2 PM. The game will be broadcast on CPTV.

The UConn women will showcase their new offensive system to the country this afternoon.

Renee Montgomery is the UConn women’s leader.

All of the pieces are there for a run at the NCAA title for the UConn women.

The UConn women begin the season amid high expectations.

Maya Moore is a year older and a year wiser.

Most of Geno Auriemma’s family will be in Worcester, MA today to watch his son Michael play for St. Joes.

The Norwich Bulletin has the bios for the UConn women’s team.

The Huskies will be counting on Kaili McLaren up front this season.

Joe Perez of the Norwich Bulletin has a memorable quote from Tina Charles.

The time is upon us for the UConn women’s season to open.

Former UConn AD John Toner made the right choices in Geno Auriemma and Jim Calhoun.

Both Hasheem Thabeet and Jerome Dyson showed their improvement on Friday night.

A.J. Price says the UConn men played well on Friday night.

The UConn men started their season on a high.

Hasheem Thabeet’s improvement was on display Friday night.

A.J. Price and Jerome Dyson both missed practice on Saturday.

Mike Anthony of the Hartford Courant has some notes from yesterday’s men’s basketball practice.

David Gillett has video of Jerome Dyson’s big dunk on Friday night.

This is what Randy Edsall had to say about deceiving everyone with the decision to start Tyler Lorenzen.

“I guess I could apologize, but I’m not going to apologize. I knew he was going to play, but I didn’t want it out there. When you play Tyler your gameplan changes. I’m sorry, but it’s a competitive game and you’re judged on winds and losses. I’m not going to give up anything that might give up our competitive edge.”

Lorenzen added that he knew during the week that he would be QB1 for the Huskies last night.

Chip Malafronte of the New Haven Register, John Silver of the Journal Inquirer, Desmond Conner of the Hartford Courant and Neill Ostrout of the Connecticut Post all have postgame notes from last night’s win over Syracuse.

Tyler Lorenzen returned last night to lead the Huskies to victory over the Orange.

The Hartford Courant has a look at what went right (alot) and what went wrong ( a little) in UConn’s win over Syracuse last night.

Desmond Conner of the Hartford Courant says we can’t believe anything Randy Edsall says anymore.

Former UConn Huskies RB Larry Taylor helped lead the Montreal Alouettes to the CFL Championship Game by returning two punts for touchdowns.

The UConn men’s hockey team lost 6-0 to Canisius.

The UConn women’s hockey team will take on the Providence Friars in Providence this afternoon.

The UConn field hockey team was eliminated by Duke 2-1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.