This Is UConn: The Story of College Basketball’s New Kings
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- From their very first game in 1901, the history of Connecticut basketball weaves a fascinating tale. Despite many years languishing in irrelevance, they've blazed a trail that would make even John Wooden look twice: back-to-back national champions, the envy of the Big East, and college basketball's most successful team over the last 30 years. This documentary explores the men that laid the foundations, the trials and tribulations that laid on the path to blue blood crowning, and the successes that they've seen.
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Origins of UConn Basketball
04:24 - First Coach Hired
05:39 - Wilder Tasker and the First Tastes of Success
06:57 - Hugh Greer, the Godfather of UConn
09:41 - UConn's first NCAA Tournament
12:46 - Demise of Greer
13:49 - Fred Shabel
14:39 - Birth of the Big East
17:04 - Jim Calhoun
20:19 - The "Dream Season"
23:50 - 1999 National Champions
26:50 - Kemba 5 Games in 5 Days
28:26 - Demise of Calhoun
29:16 - Kevin Ollie
30:59 - Demise of Ollie
31:50 - Dan Hurley
35:59 - Outro
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Who needs blue blood, when your the New Blood. Total dominance. 6 titles since 1999.
I'm a UConn alum myself (1980). Back when I was there, men's soccer and women's field hockey were the marquee sports. Men's basketball was pretty good (they reached the Sweet Sixteen in 1976), but women's basketball was an afterthought. We had a team, but it was irrelevant. I had to say, I graduated from the University of Connecticut because if I said UConn, people would think I was referring to that Canadian territory next to Alaska. We've come a long way, baby!
I’m also Class of ‘80. Back then, getting on national TV was an accomplishment. We’ve come a long, long way.
@@swami1 OK, so what dorm(s) did you live in?
@@8avexp Lafayette for 3 years, then Brock.
@@8avexp Lafayette for 3 years, then Brock.
@@swami1 Lafayette must have been in Towers. I lived in Stowe C for five semesters (brachferred after one semester at Hartford), then moved off campus.
There’s just something special about how the. UConn culture is all about unselfishness, teamwork, simply outworking and out hustling the other team, and when they go on.a run, and the other team calls a time out, and the UConn chant starts. It allways gives me goosebumps
UConn class of ‘84 here. Corny Thompson era. What I came here to say is that my father attended Ellsworth High School during the time that Hugh Greer was coach there, as well as boys gym teacher. Coach Greer treated everyone with grace, whether you were on the team, or just a kid in gym class. Very classy man.
UConn is the New England Patriots (6 Super Bowls since 2001) of college basketball.
Really enjoyed this! My only gripe would be I think Ollie deserves far more responsibility for what happened than is portrayed here, but this is 10/10 masterpiece. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
Definitely weighed a harsher critique of Ollie (particularly as a recruiter), but ultimately I decided to exercise caution assigning blame to any one person - there were so many moving parts in that era of college sports, I wouldn’t have felt right putting it out there without being confident in saying it
@byjacksonstreet respect. Again loved the piece. So much I didn't know about the history of the program!
As a UConn alum, graduating in 1966 (the Fred Shabel, Toby Kimball, Wes Bailosuknia, Tommy Penders era), I really appreciate your chronicle of UConn basketball.
UConn has been dominating (on and off) men’s and women’s college basketball for the past 25 years. Give credit where credit is due!!
Great video as a current UConn student and someone who grew up in CT.
Whoever did this it was an excellent job! I remember sneaking into the old field house in the 80's and sitting right behind the bench. We have come a long long way. I hate the term blue blood. We are a True Blood. The basketball capital of the world!!!
Hell of a job man you knocked this out the park!
UConn has been dominating men’s college basketball on and off since 1999. It’s time to give UConn’s men’s basketball their flowers.
Correction, the UConn basketball program has been dominating college basketball, 17 titles between the men and women, and nobody comes close. UConn is also the basketball program that both the men and women won in the same year twice, no college program has done that at least once! UConn's blood is so blue it has a purple tint at night.
@@jeromedanielson4422UConn isn’t a blue blood. Girls ball school definitely. Zero success prior to 99’… the program is hollow and dull like they’re uniforms
In the first photo of Dee Rowe, former UCONN Great Tony Hanson is on Dee's left. Saw him many times along with Al Weston, Lee Otis Wilson, Joey Whelton, John Thomas. Tremendous Teams.
UConn is a True Blood 💙
Will never be a blue blood
Great vid bro
Excellent video 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent video. Due to time restraints, I planned to stop watching after a minute or two, but I could not stop watching.
What a phenomenal job you did with this video!
Bleed Blue❗️
Great video. It hits different after a Back to Back. 😎
Enjoyed . Thank you
Front court will be tough with Mahaney, Diarra, & Mckneeley. I would assume would all start. Hopefully AK comes back after testing the waters to play the 4 with Samson & Tarris Reed fighting for the 5. Unless Hurley opts to continue to use Diarra off the bench and Jaylin Stewart makes some strides this summer. Regardless they will both will play significant minutes. Should leave us 9 deep with Solo Ball, Jayden Ross, & freshman Ahmad Nowell. Can't wait to see Mckneeley & Mahaney shine in Luke Murray's offense!
UConn’s first number 1 ranking was in ‘95, not ‘98. In fact, BOTH the men and women were ranked no. 1 at the same time that year (‘95). First time for any school ever.
I live in Connecticut right next to stores. My grandfather's brother taught their and I've been watching UConn's in 1990. Really appreciate this video it was so well done
Storrs.
Love the final line
Pls do a history video on UConn football 🙏
I just become a Uconn fan this season after they won the national championship. Look forward to next seasom. GO HUSKIES
Let's not forget UCONN is only 50 miles down the road from Springfield where basketball was invented. Also not far from Yale where some say Football was invented, and Pittsfield Ma, which has a better claim to being the place where baseball was invented than anyone else.
You skipped right over the Dee Rowe era. Guy did a solid job.
UCONN is THE blue blood now. What they have accomplished in the last 25 years is insane. Current CBB for mens is insanely competitive. These teams would mutilate the UCLA, Kentucky, UNC teams of the past
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The golden era of modern college basketball was between the early 1980s to mid 1990s.
@@JTH-hm8ew lmao no it was not....teams today would mutilate those teams
As someone who has been watching college basketball since the early 1980s all I can say is 🤣🤣🤣🤣 to your premise. College basketball has been on decline since the early to mid 1990s when early entries became available for the NBA. Sure there have been times since then with great champion teams such as the back to back Florida title teams and 2005 UNC but there is a lot of parity in college basketball now and as dominant as UCONN has been the past several years they are still not as good as programs from the past before early NBA entries.
@@JTH-hm8ew LMAO old head refusing to accept how weak and one dimensional teams were back then. This UCONN team would have DESTROYED teams in the 80s and 90s. And denying UCONN as the superior blue blood for what they have accomplished in the age of upsets is impressive. Back to back these days is unheard of and they did so by covering the spread every damn game. Just give credit when its due.
I am sorry but this UCONN team would not have destroyed great teams of the past. Also, I never denied UCONN being a blieblood program. What UCONN has done is stellar. However, great teams of the past would not be destroyed by current UCONN which in of itself is quite comical and laughable as one who witnessed great teams of the past. Also, great teams of the past were not one dimensional either.
"..and we're here to stay"
FUCK YEH!
GOD BLESS coach HURLEY!!!
South Carolina named a street after Staley. Connecticutt should change the name of Storrs Ct. To Auriemmaville Ct.
I’d name the county after John Toner for having the foresight (or luck) to hire both Auriemma and Calhoun
@@byjacksonstreet Yes
When Geno retires, it has been officically stated by the NCAA that the women's basketball Coach Of The Year award will be renamed after Geno A.
Yall just tied UNC with 6 Titles......
UConn UConn UConn
Ahhh…. THE SHOT
Absolute mass rapture in Storrs that night. Total freak out campus wide.
Love my Huskies. 6
Windham High School in Willimantic, not Willimantic High.
Now, but at the time it was exclusively referred to as “Willimantic High School,” “the Willimantic High School,” or ambiguously as “W.H.S.” - I didn’t feel comfortable connecting the two when even UConn’s own library special collections referred to it as Willimantic High
Huskies 🐺🐺
Blue Bood?
They been a blue blood ain't no new shit ..
Newest? Try only. You don't just earn it, you have to work to keep it. OBTW, the stupidest moniker in sports.
uconn will never be a blue blood
Newest? How old is the person making this video.. uconn have won 6 national titles in at least 3 and probably 4 different conferences.. ten seconds and a lil google would help out your clips accuracy..
You look at the other blue bloods:
Indiana made 7 final 4s before UConn made 1
Duke 10
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
UNC 14
UCLA 15
I get their dominance has been sustained over the course of my lifetime, but they definitely came last to the party
@@byjacksonstreet indiana? They lost their invite 20 years ago... they are a has been program.
@@byjacksonstreet yup.
@@tycooper7368 it takes more than 20 years to lose blue blood status. thats why its called "blue blood". this is different from being "elite program". these are two different things. lots of programs are in much better spots than Indiana. hell Alabama for example. They are an "elite" program but not a "blue blood". then its opposite for Indiana.
@@tycooper7368 Yeah, Indiana hasn't really been relevant in since Bobby Knight. I think they made a final four. Not sure.
2nd lowest Finals ratings.....Nobody watched
Ah, 14.8 million people watched that's a whole lot of "NOBODY" 🤣
So? Does that negate the championship? Clown.