Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun has left his team and taken a medical leave.
We don’t know what’s ailing the coach, but we know what isn’t. Sources told ESPN.com that the illness is not cancer or heart-related. The 67-year-old hall-of-famer is a three-time cancer survivor, having beaten prostate cancer in 2003 and skin cancer in 2007 and 2008.
He leaves his team at a critical point in their season. The Huskies have been ranked in the AP Top 25 for most of this season — topping out with a No. 10 ranking in the poll released on December 28. But they haven’t beaten a quality team all year. UConn lost marquee out-of-conference tests against Kentucky, Duke and Michigan, and is currently mired in a three-game losing streak, with St. John’s set to visit Hartford on January 20th and a date with top-ranked Texas looming this weekend.
Calhoun recently signed a five-year contract extension.
Connecticut’s Calhoun Takes Medical Leave originally appeared on About.com Basketball on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 08:11:04.
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