The men’s and women’s basketball teams will play back to back on Sunday, but the real action may be in Storrs, where the Toscano Family Ice Forum hosts its first games.
The men’s basketball team has a lot of talent returning this season, but if it’s going to ascend into the top 15 or higher, the transfers are going to be the reason they get there.
Geno Auriemma said that their absences may be punishment for the fact that they went so long without any significant injuries. Plus, someone gave the men’s hockey team a first-place vote in the USCHO poll.
Dan Hurley is hopeful Andre Jackson will be out only five or six weeks, putting his return sometime in early December — before the Big East season gets underway.