Jim Calhoun, on realignment...

[CL82]

I assumed JC was taking a job with espn to work a P5 invitation. If not, I'd be disappointed.

 

[HoopsFan21]

We are the only game in town and also move the needle in the biggest town in the country, which just happens to be 140 miles from our doorstep and only 35 miles from our state's border.

Not even 35 miles depending on how you measure. According to google maps, if you measure from Greenwich's western border, let's call it exit 2 to the eastern border of NYC (Bronx) exit 14, it's 12.8 miles down I-95. As the crow flies it's even less than that, and by I-95 it's probably a little less than what google says because that Hutch/1st Whitestone exit is a little bit into the Bronx already and there's still about half a mile of I-95 left in Greenwich when you get on between exit 2 and the Tappan Zee exit. A lot of people don't realize how close the panhandle of CT comes to the NYC line.

 

[MattMang23]

Not even 35 miles depending on how you measure. According to google maps, if you measure from Greenwich's western border, let's call it exit 2 to the eastern border of NYC (Bronx) exit 14, it's 12.8 miles down I-95. As the crow flies it's even less than that, and by I-95 it's probably a little less than what google says because that Hutch/1st Whitestone exit is a little bit into the Bronx already and there's still about half a mile of I-95 left in Greenwich when you get on between exit 2 and the Tappan Zee exit. A lot of people don't realize how close the panhandle of CT comes to the NYC line.

I just put Greenwich, CT to New York, NY into mapquest and it said 35 miles. I like 12.8 better.

 

[Kolumbo]

Greenwhich is closer to the Bronx than Staten Island is, especially if you want to talk about travel time. Just throwing it out there.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

We have won nineteen national championships in three different sports (four if you consider men's and women's basketball to be different sports), and have a total of twenty varsity teams.

How come we never count the Intercollegiate Polo Championships in that count? Our women won 7 national titles in 1996-98 and 2005-2008 and the men won 3 in 1972-74. The men did make the final 4 as recently as 2011. That CR needle has to be moving now.
https://www.facebook.com/UConnPolo/info

 

[Seaa Blue]

I've been authorized to share with you that what punched Rutgers' ticket was their multiple ultimate frisbee championships. UConn might want to get to work on that.

 

[pj]

I've been authorized to share with you that what punched Rutgers' ticket was their multiple ultimate frisbee championships. UConn might want to get to work on that.

With our luck, once we shifted our focus to ultimate frisbee, basketball would emerge as the driver of realignment.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Do we have a hacky sack team? Is it still cool to play that? What about our Quidditch team? We need to get ahead of the curve.

 

[Kolumbo]

MattMang23 said: ↑
We have won nineteen national championships in three different sports (four if you consider men's and women's basketball to be different sports), and have a total of twenty varsity teams.

How come we never count the Intercollegiate Polo Championships in that count? Our women won 7 national titles in 1996-98 and 2005-2008 and the men won 3 in 1972-74. The men did make the final 4 as recently as 2011. That CR needle has to be moving now.
https://www.facebook.com/UConnPolo/info

And certainly, men's and women's basketball are two totally separate sports.

 

[SAMCRO]

How come we never count the Intercollegiate Polo Championships in that count? Our women won 7 national titles in 1996-98 and 2005-2008 and the men won 3 in 1972-74. The men did make the final 4 as recently as 2011. That CR needle has to be moving now.
https://www.facebook.com/UConnPolo/info

You left out UConn's '05/'06 and '06/'07 National Championships in Paintball. Back to back baby!!!

 

[HoopsFan21]

I just put Greenwich, CT to New York, NY into mapquest and it said 35 miles. I like 12.8 better.

The default is from the center of Greenwich to City Hall which is all the way downtown - almost the most southern point in Manhattan so the distance is going to be inflated. I was just trying to figure out the shortest distance between any part of Connecticut and any part of NYC, and lower Westchester, or about 7 I-95 exits, is all that separates Connecticut from NYC.

 

[Kolumbo]

Bottom line is, NYC covers a lot of ground, including CT. People commute every day into Manhattan from the other 4 boroughs, Long Island, several other NY counties, CT, NJ, and even Penn.