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UCONNUCONN BasketballBasketball 2001-2002 Game # 22-- Monday, February 11, 2002, 7:00 p.m. Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT CONNECTICUT (15-6, 7-3) vs. VILLANOVA (13-8, 4-6) THE GAME-- The University of Connecticut hosts Villanova University FOR MORE INFORMATION , PLEASE CONTACT: on Monday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hartford Civic Center. The KYLE MUNCY game will be televised nationally on ESPN. The Huskies enter the game Assistant Director of Athletics/Communications with a record of 15-6 overall, 7-3 in the BIG EAST Conference. UConn Office-- 860-486-3531; Fax-- 860-486-5085 is coming off an 85-83 overtime loss to St. John’s on Saturday, February Home-- 860-267-7792 9. Villanova enters the game with a record of 13-8, 4-6 in the BIG Cellular-- 860-208-8624 EAST. The Wildcats come off a 58-57 win over No. 15 UCLA on Saturday, February 9 at the Pavilion. TELEVISION COVERAGE: ESPN Mike Tirico (pbp), Bill Raftery (color) SERIES HISTORY & NOTES-- UConn and Villanova will meet for the RADIO COVERAGE: UCONN RADIO NETWORK 48th time in the series history, with the Wildcats holding a 28-19 series Joe D’Ambrosio (play-by-play), Wayne Norman (analyst); edge... UConn has won seven of the last ten meetings... Jim Calhoun WTIC (1080-AM); WILI (1400-AM); WSUB (980-AM); has a 16-14 record against Villanova, 16-13 at UConn, 0-1 while at WLIS (1420-AM); WMRD (1150-AM); WICC (600-AM). Northeastern... The Huskies took the first meeting of the season between the schools, 70-65, on January 13 at the First Union Center in 2001-2002 CONNECTICUT BASKETBALL Philadelphia. Caron Butler led the Huskies with 19 points in that meeting SCHEDULE & RESULTS and Taliek Brown added 16. SCOUTING UCONN-- UConn enters the game with a 15-6 record, 7- Date Opponent TV Site Time NOVEMBER 3 in the BIG EAST. Sophomore All-American candidate Caron Butler Tues. 6 Nike Elite (Exhib.) -- Storrs, CT W, 105-77 leads the UConn attack at 19.0 points per game to go along with 7.0 Tues. 13 Grassroots Canada (Exhib.) Hartford, CT W, 107-57 rebounds, 2.2 steals and 2.8 assists. Freshman Ben Gordon is averaging Mon. 19 VANDERBILT WTXX-20 Hartford, CT W, 84-71 12.5 points per game and 3.2 assists per contest. Senior forward Mon. 26 NEW HAMPSHIRE WTXX-20 Hartford, CT W, 110-58 Johnnie Selvie is at 12.2 points per game and is also grabbing 6.5 DECEMBER Sun.-Mon. 2-3 BB&T Classic, MCI Center, Washington, DC (2nd Place) rebounds. Junior guard Tony Robertson is at 11.4 points per game and Sun. 2 vs. George Washington WCTX-59 W, 84-76 also adds 2.2 rebounds. Sophomore point guard Taliek Brown is Mon. 3 vs. Maryland WCTX-59 L, 77-65 averaging 9.0 points and 5.0 assists. He also grabs 3.0 rebounds per Sat. 8 NORTHEASTERN WTXX-20 Storrs, CT W, 80-44 game. Freshman center Emeka Okafor is scoring 8.3 points and Tues. 11 at Massachusetts ESPN Amherst, MA W, 69-59 averages a team-high 9.3 rebounds per contest and 4.14 blocks per Fri. 21 QUINNIPIAC WTXX-20 Hartford, CT W, 95-79 game. Fri. 28 ST. BONAVENTURE WTXX-20 Hartford, CT L, 88-70 JANUARY Wed. 2 at Virginia Tech* WTXX-20 Blacksburg, VA W, 86-74 HEAD COACH JIM CALHOUN-- Jim Calhoun (American International Sat. 5 MIAMI* WTXX-20 Storrs, CT W, 76-75 th Mon. 7 OKLAHOMA espn2 Hartford, CT L, 69-67 ’68) is in his 16 season in charge of the Connecticut basketball Thu. 10 VIRGINIA TECH* WTXX-20 Hartford, CT W, 95-60 program. In his 30th season as a collegiate head coach, Jim Calhoun has Sun. 13 at Villanova* WTXX-20 Philadelphia, PA W, 70-65 an overall career record of 614-285 (68.3%), having spent 14 seasons Wed. 16 at Providence* NESN Providence, RI W, 69-62 Sat. 19 NORTH CAROLINA CBS Storrs, CT W, 86-54 as the head coach at Northeastern University before taking over at Wed. 23 ST. JOHN’S* WTXX-20 Storrs, CT W, 75-70 Connecticut in 1986-87. Calhoun sports a 364-148 (71.1%) record at Sat. 26 at Arizona CBS Tucson, AZ W, 100-98 OT Wed. 30 at Rutgers* WTXX-20 Piscataway, NJ L, 61-53 UConn and he registered a 250-137 (64.6%) mark at Northeastern. Jim FEBRUARY Calhoun is the winningest coach in both UConn and Northeastern Sat. 2 at Miami* WTXX-20 Miami FL L, 68-66 basketball history. Coach Calhoun earned his 600th career coaching win Tue. 5 PROVIDENCE* espn2 Hartford, CT W, 67-56 Sat. 9 at St. John’s* ESPN New York, NY L, 85-83 OT against Vanderbilt on November 19. He is the 26th coach in NCAA Mon. 11 VILLANOVA* ESPN Hartford, CT 7:00 Sat. 16 BOSTON COLLEGE* WTXX-20 Hartford, CT Noon Tue. 19 at Georgetown* espn2 Washington, DC 7:30 All Notes, Statistics, Box Scores and Play-by-Play’s Sat. 23 WEST VIRGINIA* WTXX-20 Storrs, CT Noon are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format Mon. 25 at Boston College* ESPN Chestnut Hill, MA 7:00 MARCH by visiting the official website of UConn Athletics at Sat. 2 SETON HALL* ESPN Storrs, CT 7:00 Wed-Sat 6-9 at BIG EAST Tournament ESPN/espn2 New York, NY www.UConnHuskies.com HOME GAMES IN CAPS The UConn Men’s Basketball “Media Center” can be located *-BIG EAST Conference Game All Times EST & Subject To Change by clicking on the Men’s Basketball Home Page and then clicking the link for “Media Center” at the top right hand side of the page. 2001-2002 University of Connecticut Basketball Media Notes-- FEBRUARY 11, 2002 vs. VILLANOVA, page 1 WWW.UConnHuskies.com 2001-2002 UCONN HUSKIES BASKETBALL WWW.UConnHuskies.com Division I history to reach the 600 victory only two games the rest of the season that THE HUSKIES IN HARTFORD-- UConn plateau and is part of an elite group of 11 will not be nationally televised are the will play in the Hartford Civic Center for the active Division I coaches who have reached February 16 game with BC at the Hartford 223rd time in the game vs. Villanova, the 600 win mark. For a complete listing of Civic Center and the February 23 contest at including exhibition games. The Huskies the groups mentioned above and other Gampel Pavilion against West Virginia. have rolled up a 142-67 mark vs. collegiate information on Coach Calhoun, please see opposition, 154-68 including exhibitions. page six of these notes. HUSKIES ON ESPN-- The game against UConn has gone unbeaten at the HCC four Villanova will be UConn’s 102nd game to be times and has had five seasons with only NUMBERS OF NOTE-- Sophomore Caron televised nationally by ESPN/espn2 during one HCC loss. The Huskies topped the three Butler has a double-double in each of the the past 13 seasons (since the start of the million mark in attendance in Hartford during last two games and is averaging 22.5 points 1989-90 season). UConn is 69-32 overall on the 2000-2001 season. The total attendance and 14 rebounds in that span. His 15 ESPN/espn2 during that span. The game for HCC games is 3,171,484, an average of rebounds against St. John’s were a career vs. the Wildcats is the fifth of eight UConn 14,286 per date, including 96 sellouts. best and he scored a career-high 29 points games during the 2001-2002 regular season UConn is 119-34 in the Hartford Civic Center for the fourth time as a Husky... Senior that will be televised by ESPN/espn2. UConn under Jim Calhoun... The Huskies are 56-50 Johnnie Selvie has hit for double figures in beat UMass on ESPN on December 11, lost at the HCC in BIG EAST play, 86-17 against each of the last seven games and is to Oklahoma on espn2 on January 7, beat non-conference opponents. averaging 13.0 points and 7.7 rebounds in Providence on espn2 on February 5 and lost that stretch. Selvie’s longest stretch last to St. John’s on February 9. THE BUTLER DOES IT-- Sophomore Caron season of double figure games was seven Butler has continued his solid all-around also... Okafor has 33 blocked shots in the THE BIG EAST STATS-- UConn has sev- play through 21 games of his sophomore last five games, an average of 6.6 per eral individuals among the BIG EAST leaders season. Caron has led UConn in scoring in game... Okafor has fouled out of two of the in the current statistics. Through games of 13 of the 21 games and has hit the 20-point last three games after going the first 18 February 9, freshman Emeka Okafor is first mark on nine occasions. Butler enters the games without a foul out. in the league in blocked shots at 4.14 per Villanova game with back-to-back double- game. Okafor is also fourth in the BIG EAST doubles. Entering the game, Butler is NATIONAL EXPOSURE-- UConn’s game in rebounding at 9.3 per game. Sophomore averaging 19.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.8 with the Wildcats continues a season-ending Caron Butler is sixth in scoring (19.0 ppg) assists and 2.2 steals in 34.7 minutes per stretch for the Huskies that will see six of and seventh in steals (2.2).