Series: 100th meeting (UConn leads all-time, 83-16)
TV: SNY, 7:30 p.m. (Gary Apple, Tim Welsh, Kerith Burke)
Radio: WTIC 1080 (Joe D'Ambrosio, Wayne Norman)
Fun Fact: UConn has won 58 of its past 70 season openers, with the last loss coming in 1999.
Another Fun Fact: The only team UConn has defeated more than Maine is New Hampshire (91).
Here we go. It's time for the 2015-16 season to get rolling. After a long offseason—made longer by the failure to get out of the first round of the NIT—UConn begins the season Friday night at Gampel Pavilion against the Maine Black Bears.