Just stumbled across Notes from the Hawaii jumpoff and figured never too late but here’s a Kemba piece I penned a little while ago, before UCONN embarked on their traditional cupcake non-conference schedule. If you left briefly to use the… Continue Reading
Edgar Sosa and Kemba Walker, a pair of electrifying NYC playground-bred guards, got their baller’s teeth cut while playing for the Gauchos on the AAU circuit. Gaucho gym, rich basketball real estate (see Strickland, Rod or Marbury, Stephon for more… Continue Reading
Ater Majok’s name is littered all over college basketball websites and magazines canvassing who’s who in the Big East. UConn’s 6-foot-11, 23-year-old freshman center was very much a mystery to the NCAA last year. Majok briefly tested the NBA waters… Continue Reading
All day word hung around midtown about the nation’s top collegiate player–who surely would have sidestepped the college experience and bolted to the NBA from high school (if not for David Stern’s age rule)–lighting up Madison Square Garden. UConn v.s.… Continue Reading
HARTFORD–The sight was alarmingly familiar, and that’s what made it all the more frightening for the UConn Huskies. Jerome Dyson, the Huskies’ best player–Jim Calhoun’s description after the Huskies’ 92-64 blowout of Boston University–landed awkwardly during the opening moments of… Continue Reading
Kemba Walker knew it would happen. He knew he would be called upon to run the Connecticut souped-up, go-go offense. He’s just amazed at how fast it came. A few months short of two years ago, the high-motor guard from… Continue Reading