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Article: SPORTS LOG
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2008
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Basketball
UConn is preseason favorite in Big East
The Big East coaches picked Connecticut yesterday as the
preseason favorite in the conference most consider the deepest in
college basketball. "We're not the best team in the league right
now," UConn coach Jim Calhoun said at media day at Madison Square
Garden. "We could be in time ... There is no doubt, though, that
this league is as deep as it's ever been. This is one tough league."
Connecticut returns its nucleus of center Hasheem Thabeet, guard
A.J. Price, and forward Jeff Adrien ... Northeastern was picked to
finish second in the Colonial Athletic Association at the annual
media day in Washington, D.C., just behind Virginia Commonwealth ...