Husky Run kicks off basketball season for UConn

Title: Husky Run kicks off basketball season for UConn

Published: Wed, 14 Oct 2009

Description: (NECN: Brian Burnell, Storrs, Conn.) - The University of Connecticut Huskies Men's basketball season ended in April with an 82 to 73 loss to Michigan State in the NCAA final four. A successful season yet disappointing for a program that has ...

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" Baseball's done in Boston football's on everybody's mind now. But in Connecticut basketball is beginning to creep into the sports fan's consciousness to UConn Huskies are closing in on their new season today fans got a chance to compete with the players."

" But not on the court hears anything as -- for now."

" The University of Connecticut Huskies men's basketball season ended in April with -- 82 to 73 loss to Michigan State in the NCAA Final Four. A successful season yet disappointing for program that's become the best in college basketball and new England and one of the top five in the country. With a chill in the air outside -- pavilion on the UConn campus in stores a new season is just around the corner. It started on Wednesday sort of with the huskies' run. It's a three and a half mile run for the team and fans can sign up to run a law how important is this. -- a correlation to winning this race and being a Big East player of the year that they're direct correlation. This is far from the first work out the Huskies have seen their pre season starts early at 7 o'clock we trained. And do conditioning. 8 o'clock breakfast and then onto -- classes and in new instructions and tutoring sessions on this run is the wrapped up to that and it's an opportunity for fans to get some autographs from their favored Huskies and compete in a way with these world class athletes didn't run in the past which it did this year. And this year 'cause I'm fortunate lost my job a couple months ago and so my days off now so it's on the paper came on. Literally the guys to beat any players I Kabila mulling a pass some evidence impasse begins though there IBM the panic. A quick way to finish line it's important to remember this is a broad race not a pickup game any significance to limit -- to be and one of the first players across the line and mr. -- And that's what it's -- Other. A three and a half mile run is a good work out for just about anybody but for the Huskies this is really just a fun run and even the first practice first night on the sixteenth. That's kind of a show for the fans now the real work starts the next morning Saturday morning that's the first real practice of the new season. In stores Connecticut Brian Bernal NEC."

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