by Dick Weiss, for The American
PHILADELPHIA – It was hard to believe. UConn’s men's basketball team, which has won four national championships, has been a perennial NCAA tournament team and produced 30 NBA draft picks in the last 28 years, finished with an uncharacteristic 16-17 record, its first losing season since 1987-88 – and was left out of postseason.
Mick Cronin of Cincinnati, whose team was picked by the coaches to win the American Athletic Conference this year, called UConn's temporary disappearance from the Top 25 an “anomaly.” "They were missing three key players," he said.