Other than cost, there is no reason to pick UConn over those three schools. That is kind of a silly question.
Kentucky is at the end of the trough, and a lot of schools are picking off a lot of students before Kentucky gets its first bite. There are cheaper schools than Kentucky, and there are many, many better schools than Kentucky. Kentucky had a place when the student population was growing nationwide, but those days are over, forever. Not only is the student population shrinking, but I think college attendance as a percentage of total kids between 18-22 will dip as more kids realize that it is not worth going into massive debt for a lot of degrees that it can get at a local school like Central, or whatever a particular kids equivalent of CCSU is.