Continuing on with my updates, here is a look at the UCONN Men’s Basketball news.
UCONN will take part in the 2007 Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge on Dec 1st and will be opposed by Gonzaga in the first game of a doubleheader. Providence and Boston College will play in the nightcap. This year, the Hall of Fame Challenge will be held at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. The game will be on ESPN at 3:30 PM on Dec 1st. The last time the Huskies faced Gonzaga was in the championship of the Maui Invitational.
UCONN received an oral commitment from Kemba Walker, a 6’2″ point guard from New York City.
Hilton Armstrong and Taliek Brown are on campus for summer school trying to finish up their degrees. This bodes well for UCONN’s APR score as the NCAA always is examining graduation rates and can take away scholarships based on the school’s APR number.
With Tom Moore having left for the Quinnipiac job, head coach Jim Calhoun had to make some changes to his staff. He promoted Patrick Sellers to assistant coach, and hired Beau Archibald to be the director of basketball operations. Archibald had been an assistant coach at Florida International last year. Archibald played for the Huskies from 1998-2000.
Jeff Adrien, Jerome Dyson, and Hasheem Thabeet will be busy this summer. They were invited to be counselors at one of the Nike skills academies held for high school players. Adrien will be working in Orlando at the camp run by Vince Carter and Dyson and Thabeet will be working in Phoenix at the camp run by Amare Stoudemire.
