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Jim Calhoun is a curmudgeon, although not necessarily a lovable one; irascible but not always irrational, old school but never irrelevant; an icon, but an imperfect one. He was not always easy to like, but he was impossible to not respect.

At the start of the season, Kemba Walker cooked for his teammates. By the end, he had all the ingredients to make a champion.

Former UConn assistant Patrick Sellers, who resigned amid NCAA investigations into the Huskies program, has no hard feelings and is cheering on his recruiting class from China.

After all that A.J. Price has been through in his career at UConn, a trip to the Final Four turned into a cathartic experience.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Kemba Walker has taken over the game. The Connecticut freshman isn't just scoring; he's commanding the game. On two trips, he scored on a strong drive to the hoop then set up Hasheem Thabeet with a perfect dish. The big man laid ...

When UConn learned that coach Jim Calhoun wouldn't make its game against Chattanooga, the Huskies did what they knew their coach would want them to do -- they played their tails off.

And so here we are at the end of the Big East regular season, and yet we're back where we started. The league is still unsettled and undecided, but the same team picked at the beginning is back at the top, and that's Louisville. 1. Louisville. Don...

Four teams -- DePaul, Rutgers, Seton Hall and South Florida -- have guaranteed themselves Tuesday games in the Big East tournament. Nothing else is quite settled, though Georgetown is making a good case to think about closing the books. One case that...

Together they have won four of the past six Big East regular-season crowns and 11 overall, so no surprise first place is on the line when Syracuse and Georgetown meet for the final time as league members at the Carrier Dome. Marquette and Louisville ...

To death and taxes, I add Marquette. The Golden Eagles are the one thing you can count on annually. A year after losing the Big East's player of the year and league's leading scorer (and they were two different people) Buzz Williams' team is back aga...

For the first month of the season, one thing was certain in the Big East -- Louisville and Syracuse were the best teams in the conference. Funny how quickly things can change. Louisville had a bad week, knocking it from the top of the standings. T...

Coaches love to say that, on any given night, a team can lose. Apparently the Big East would like to make that its motto. The league has become either strangely unpredictable or woefully unstable, depending on your point of view. What looked like ...

Conference play always serves as the great revealer, separating the real teams from the pretenders and outing soft nonconference seasons for the record-padding fluff that they are. We've already seen a little separation in just the first week of t...

With the conference season set to get under way, Dana O'Neil takes a look at what's in store for the Big East.

It was a noisy quiet week for the Big East. With plenty of teams enjoying some holiday downtime, two of the best played -- and lost their first games of the season. Both Syracuse and Cincinnati dropped from the ranks of the unbeatens, but neither ...

It's been a strange week in the Big East. Basketball finally found its voice in conference realignment but in doing so wrecked what had been college basketball's best league. The seven Catholic schools announced they would leave the Big East in 2015,...