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UConn knows what all the hoopla is about

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Lew Perkins, the athletics director of the University of Connecticut, doesn't back down from a challenge. As a 6-foot-5 high school basketball star, he once scored 59 points in a game. When he arrived at the Storrs campus in 1990, he discovered a parochial, regional power in need of modernization. In the 11 years that have followed, the Huskies have won a men's NCAA basketball title, two women's titles and a men's soccer championship. The football team? Don't ask. In just the third year of I-A ...

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