Ahead of Team USA's Monday night exhibition against UConn, the Huskies paid tribute to the death Kobe Bryant, Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna and the other seven people who died in Sunday's helicopter crash.
Gianna, known by many as GiGi, told her father she wanted to play for UConn. The Huskies honored her Monday night with her own jersey.
There was a 24-second moment of silence before tipoff and the teams took intentional violations to open the game, to honor Bryant.
News of the death of Kobe and his daughter produced a wave of shock throughout the sports world.