San Diego State's Sweet 16 opponent in Boston is the defending national champion and still trying to prove its place in college basketball's hierarchy
The University of Connecticut was originally Storrs Agricultural College, founded in 1881 by the Storrs brothers, humble farmers and merchants who also had the town named after them. Augustus donated 170 acres and its first building, a repurposed civil war orphanage. Charles gave $6,000 and 800 books. Six years later, the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station was created on campus. In the early 1900s, it became known for hosting the annual Storrs International Egg Laying Contest.
with its 11 banners and Indiana with five. Now consider: Since 1999, UConn has five men’s titles — two more than UNC and Duke, three more than Kansas, four more than Kentucky. hasn’t won since 1995, Indiana not since 1987. The Huskies have done it with three different coaches. Three of their five titles came as a No. 3 seed or worse. They’ve come in different conferences and different eras of college basketball . In championship games, they are 5-0. They’re the only school to claim men’s and women’s titles in the same year, and they’ve done it twice.
recently ranked eight blue blood contenders across six different categories — overall record, conference titles, NCAA Tournament appearances, Sweet 16s, Final Fours and national championships. UConn finished fifth behind Kansas, Duke, UNC and Kentucky, and ahead of Villanova, and Indiana. “It should have been pre-this, with the four ,” Hurley said as confetti fell inside NRG Stadium in Houston. “But UConn, this blood is as blue as can be.” “People can say what they want,” forward Alex Karaban said in the locker room, “but we know we’re a blue blood.” “You can talk about Duke,” Kemba Walker, who led the Huskies to the 2011 title, told The Athletic that night. “You can talk about North Carolina. But you better be talking about UConn now, too.” And people … aren’t.
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