When Ryan Tverberg arrived at UConn in December 2020 as an early enrollee, head coach Mike Cavanaugh admittedly wasn’t all that familiar with the team’s newest player.
“I didn’t know much about him. Joe [Pereira] had seen him play live,” he said on Thursday. “The only thing I saw was him — on video — play a couple games in the BCHL.”
It’s hard to blame the coach, either. Because of the pandemic, the NCAA put a freeze on all recruiting travel and Tverberg only committed to the Huskies on Nov. 17, 2020, so it’s not like there was much of an opportunity to go see him once he de-committed from Harvard.