Joe Arruda
UConn Men’s Basketball/Football Beat Writer at Hartford Courant
UConn men’s basketball + football @hartfordcourant
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1 week ago |
courant.com | Joe Arruda
STORRS – Donovan Branch committed to Randy Edsall and UConn football as a three-star recruit in June 2021. His first introduction to the business of the sport came less than three months later, when the coach he expected to play for left the program just two games into the season. He decommitted, and was thinking about going to Syracuse or Auburn. But then Jim Mora called. “‘Look, man, we’re trying to turn this thing around,'” Branch remembers the former NFL and UCLA coach telling him.
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1 week ago |
courant.com | Joe Arruda
STORRS – Skyler Bell received a text in his family group chat from his brother, O’Shea. It was a link to a post on X that said his good friend, former Dayton guard Malachi Smith, was in the transfer portal and that UConn was one of the schools showing interest. No one subsequently showed more interest than Bell, who has become a star at the football complex across the street from Gampel as the top wide receiver on the team.
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1 week ago |
courant.com | Joe Arruda
STORRS – Jim Mora knew it was a long shot that anything would come of the social media post he sent out in January, calling out the Washington State football program for tampering with a player on his UConn roster. After the unique move, Mora never heard anything from the NCAA or Washington State, which declined The Courant’s request for comment at the time. He still hasn’t heard anything four months later, with the spring transfer portal window open and the same process resuming on Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Joe Arruda
STORRS – Skyler Bell received a text in his family group chat from his brother, O’Shea. It was a link to a post on X that said his good friend, former Dayton guard Malachi Smith, was in the transfer portal and that UConn was one of the schools showing interest. No one subsequently showed more interest than Bell, who has become a star at the football complex across the street from Gampel as the top wide receiver on the team.
UConn men’s basketball announces home-and-home series against Arizona with matchups in 2025 and 2026
1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Joe Arruda
Dan Hurley will get a shot at his brother’s rival. The UConn men’s basketball program announced a home-and-home series with Arizona on Tuesday. The Wildcats will come to Connecticut on Nov. 19, 2025 with the return game set for Nov. 18, 2026 in Tucson. AdvertisementUConn last played Arizona in a home-and-home series in 2017 and 2018, when former Xavier and now Texas coach Sean Miller was at the helm for the Wildcats.
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