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SNY to Unveil its Top 10 UConn Players of All-Time



On the eve of the BIG EASTtournament, SNYwill celebrate UConn’sstoried men’s basketball program by unveiling Huskies Heroes: thetop 10 all-time players on Monday, March 5 at 9 pm. In thisone-hour show, fans can see where their favorite players – such as Ray Allen,Kemba Walker, Ben Gordon and RipHamilton rank among the all-time best. SNYexperts and college basketball dignitaries debated, discussed and ultimatelydecided the top 10 Men’s basketball players of all-time at UConn.

The blue ribbon panel thatselected the top ten UConn players includes:
· Mike Tranghese: Former BIGEAST Commissioner.
· Donny Marshall: Former UConnstar basketball player.
· Joe D’Ambrosio: play-by-playvoice for UConn Men’s basketball
· Phil Chardis: AssociateAthletics Director of Communications for UConn
· Tim Welsh: Current SNYAnalyst and Former BIG EAST Head Coach who previously earned
Coach of the Year honors in 1997 and 1998.
· Tarik Turner: SNY BIG EASTanalyst

As the top-ten playerrankings are released, host Gary Apple will be joined in-studio by apanel of experts –including Tim Welsh, Donny Marshall, Tarik Turner andcollege basketball columnist Lenn Robbins of the New York Post –who won the APSE award winner as well as the Jim Murray Award for outstandingcollege sports writing. The studio panel will debate the players who did – anddidn’t – make the top-ten list. The program will also feature exclusive interviewsand reactions from the players selected in the top-10.

UConn Dunn Wrong

Providence College hasn't won much over the past decade, though the Friars have had surprising success against UConn in recent years on the basketball court.



Now, for the first time in memory, the Friars have beaten the Huskies off the court, as well.



PC has received a commitment from Kris Dunn, the highly-touted guard out of New London High. Per this espn.com article, PC has signed just three McDonald's All-Americans in its history (though I'm not sure I'd include Delray Brooks, since he was a transfer from Indiana).



This also beats the Ryan Gomes situation, since few (including then-PC coach Tim Welsh) knew that Gomes would blossom into such a great player at the time. Jim Calhoun famously recruited Emeka Okafor and Caron Butler ("They're not bad!") instead.



Credit new PC coach Ed Cooley, who started recruiting Dunn while Cooley was still coaching at Fairfield and had never let up. Give some credit to ex-UConn assistant Andre LaFleur, too.



And the good news could keep coming for the Friars ... Ricky Ledo will make his college decision next week, according to a source, and PC appears to be in very standing for Ledo's services.