Introducing the second graduate student in our interview series: meet Isabel Felizzola Cantillo! 🎓🤗

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Join us for the next Elizabeth Mahan Fund Scholar Research Presentation featuring Adrian Chavarria! 🥳

Event Details:
🗓️ October 21, 2026
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📍Ryan Building, Conference Room 240

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Hurley: “I think our team, defensively, this could be one of our best defensive teams. I think we’ve got great defensive potential…I was happy with that today. The thing with us is we’re gonna get better the whole year.” #UConn

Gerry Mac: “Obviously, what Danny’s done has brought (UConn) back to where we want to go. Obviously, it’s hard for me to root for a #UConn team, but I find myself doing it.”

Take every exhibition with a grain of salt, but if this is how #UConn looks on its first night out of the gate, you might want to take a look at the Huskies this season.

Na’jai Hines led the way with 17 and 8 as the Huskies rolled by 20, 72-52 the final.

They’re going down the stretch in eastern Connecticut, and #UConn is 3:29 away from raising the curtain on 2026-27 with an exhibition win that wasn’t pretty in every facet, but workmanlike from start to finish.

At the last timeout, it’s the Huskies up 20 on Syracuse, 69-49.

Najai Hines has 17 and 8, #UConn is up 17 with 7:50 to go after his last bucket, and Gerry Mac will talk going to the U8, his Syracuse team on the short end of a 57-40 count.

For the first of what I’m sure will be many times this season, it’s Big Red time.

Hurley has gone 10-deep now, with Elmir Dzafic checking in moments ago. He, Egor Amosov, Junior County and Nils Machowski are out there now with Jayden Ross.

#UConn has some separation at the U12, up 46-35 on Syracuse at the 11:34 mark.

Khamenia and Hines are up to 11 each at the U16, propelling #UConn to a 37-28 lead with 15:55 to play in regulation. The Huskies are conducting a defensive clinic, but the 8-of-14 showing at the line is probably something Hurley will, and should, lament in his film session.

The first 20 of season #20 are in the books, with #UConn taking a 31-26 lead into halftime over Syracuse. Hines, Khamenia and Demary are all at outscoring the Orange on their own.

Ryan Moesch, who Gerry Mac flipped from Siena when he got the job, is going to be a Cuse favorite.

The two big #UConn transfers are carrying the Huskies thus far, with 17 of the team’s 26 points split between Hines (9) and Khamenia (8) with 2:53 to play before the intermission as UConn holds a 26-21 lead over Syracuse, who is 5-of-16 from the floor.

This game is ugly, but OMG I'm in love with Hines.

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Stoked that #Cuse 🍊 and #UConn are playing in college basketball tonight — even if it's an exhibition game.

And I absolutely love that the game is available to be streamed for free online.

Both sides are all square at 4 apiece through the first 5:08, with Sadiq White accounting for the entire Syracuse offense and Khamenia pulling #UConn level on a three not too long ago.

Six fouls across the house so far, which is normal for the three stripes on this one.

After 106 scoreless seconds, Oskar Giltay has broken the seal on the season, knocking down the second of two free throws for #UConn. Syracuse hasn’t looked confident yet against Hurley’s defense.

Starters for both sides:

Syracuse — Garwey Dual, Gavin Doty, Aiden Tobiason, Sadiq White and Tasman Goodrick.

UConn — Silas Demary, Jr., Jayden Ross, Nik Khamenia, Colben Landrew and Oskar Giltay.

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ZEBRA ALERT — Tonight’s officials for UConn/Syracuse: Tony Chiazza, Matt Potter and Tommy Morrissey.

All things considered, it’s a better whistle than most fans would have expected. The UConn faithful won’t be thrilled with Potter on the whistle, that’s for sure. #UConn #Cuse

For the final week of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are honoring Roberto Clemente! 🎊

Sources: Britannica, “Roberto Clemente”; Waxman, HISTORY (2022); Russo, The Borgen Project (2022).

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