This time last week, the Connecticut Huskies were reeling — riding a three-game losing streak and about to lose hall-of-fame coach Jim Calhoun, who left the team to deal with an as-yet-unspecified medical problem, with games against St. John’s and top-ranked Texas looming.
After a dominating win at Madison Square Garden and an impressive come-from-behind victory over the Longhorns, the Huskies and interim coach George Blaney are right back in the “best in the Big East” conversation — alongside Syracuse, Villanova, Pitt, West Virginia and Georgetown.
Senior guard Jerome Dyson scored a career-high 32 points in the Texas game.
The Huskies’ performance may pay dividends beyond this week’s polls; Tony Wroten, one of the top recruits in the class of 2011, put Connecticut on his “top five schools” list immediately after the game.
Big Week for Connecticut originally appeared on About.com Basketball on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 13:08:27.
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