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The South Carolina Gamecocks won their second-ever national championship after defeating the UConn Huskies.

South Carolina won its second national championship in school history with a 64-49 win over UConn in Minneapolis on Sunday.

The women’s Final Four is a stacked slate, with UConn making their 14th straight Final Four appearance and Stanford looking to defend their title.

Stephen Curry is bringing star Connecticut freshman Azzi Fudd into his SC30 Inc. brand in a unique, wide-ranging partnership that will support her successes both on and off the court as the nation’s top recruit builds her collegiate career — a multi-dimensional name, image and likeness contract

Former NFL and UCLA coach Jim Mora has been named as the next head football coach of the University of Connecticut.

Connecticut has become the latest state to pass legislation allowing college athletes to make a profit from their names, images and likenesses.

It’s a big day for students at the University of Connecticut where commencement started today and students and their families are invited to get a COVID-19 vaccine right next door at the mass vaccination site. The ceremonies are being held in-person at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The graduation ceremonies are happening inside of the stadium, but right next...

North Carolina State, Connecticut, South Carolina and Stanford are the No. 1 seeds for the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Geno Auriemma, the University of Connecticut’s head women’s basketball coach, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the school’s Athletics Department. School officials said Auriemma is not experiencing any symptoms and is isolating at home. Contact tracing showed that the basketball coach did not have close contact with any other team members since Friday, March 12, according to university...

The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team is pausing all activities after a member of the program tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Sunday. Team activities will remain on hold until contact tracing and additional testing is complete and it is deemed safe by medical professionals to return, according to university officials. It is unknown if the person who...

The University of Connecticut is placing an entire residence hall at the Stamford campus under quarantine, school officials said Saturday. There are currently a total of six positive COVID-19 cases in the dorm at 900 Washington Blvd., the university said. Five of the six cases in this residence hall were announced overnight. Three of the six cases were identified through…

The University of Connecticut is prohibiting students from attending off-campus social gatherings through Nov. 4, school officials said Friday. Any residential students who attend off-campus social gatherings will be referred to Community Standards by Connecticut State Police, the university said. School officials said this only applies to social gatherings and does not apply to voting on Nov. 3. This comes…

UConn has placed the 93 students living in Belden Hall, a residence hall in the Alumni Quad, under quarantine because of COVID-19 cases. UConn Tweeted that 93 students has been placed under quarantine because of a rising number of positive cases associated with the building. UConn has lifted the quarantine at The Oaks on the Square Apartments and Eddy Hall…

The University of Connecticut announced that students living in The Oaks on the Square apartments will now have to quarantine for 14 days following an increase in cases. According to the university, there is a COVID-19 outbreak at the apartment complex which they say warrants increased medical intervention. Student Health and Wellness, the Eastern Highlands Health District and Mansfield town…

UConn has paused football activities after six football student-athletes tested positive for coronavirus, according to a statement from the university.  The affected student-athletes are in isolation.  “Following these most recent test results, we feel that temporarily pausing football activities is the best course of action for the team and the campus population,” David Benedict, director of athletics, said in...

Multiple students have been removed from housing at UConn while the school investigates what it called an unapproved gathering in a residence hall room. School officials said several students had an unapproved gathering in a residence hall room. A video was posted on social media and UConn officials said they saw the post themselves and received reports from others. “In…

Two University of Connecticut students moving into residence halls on campus for this semester have tested positive for coronavirus. Every student who moved in this weekend was tested for COVID-19 as soon as they arrived. School officials said two students tested positive for coronavirus and they have conducted a total of 1,386 student tests as of Sunday morning. “Given the…

The BIG EAST Conference is postponing fall sports competition due to the coronavirus pandemic and is looking at potentially holding the season in the spring of 2021, the conference and UConn announced Wednesday. Men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, volleyball and field hockey are the BIG EAST impacted sports. In addition, the fall competition for sports...

UConn has just announced that out-of-state students who are enrolled only in online courses will not be allowed to live in university housing this fall and the school is asking them to stay home for the semester. This comes as students are scheduled to return to campus for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in…

UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic, after other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow players to travel to states with high infection rates. “After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes,…