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Champs finding it hard to focus

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

HARTFORD, Conn. -- No blueprint exists for a coaching staff, a team and a university on how to deal with a player and fellow student-athlete lying in the neurological intensive care unit, battling the potentially life-threatening effects of an intracranial hemorrhage. So, it is with this dark cloud hanging over the program that Connecticut begins its quest to defend its national title when practice opens Friday night with Midnight Madness. The prognosis for Connecticut freshman point guard A.J ...

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