00:00:03Huskies well they’ve won the
00:00:05championship twice once in 1999 and once
00:00:08in 2004 they still had no players to win
00:00:11Naismith College Player of the Year
00:00:13however in both those years 99 and 04
00:00:16they won the most outstanding player for
00:00:18the tournament in 2004 owes emeka okafor
00:00:20who is now of the charlotte bobcats and
00:00:23in 1999 it was richard hamilton of the
00:00:26now Detroit Pistons other notable
00:00:29Huskies include Ray Allen Ben Gordon
00:00:31Caron Butler and Charlie Villanueva as
00:00:34seventy percent of student-athletes at
00:00:37UConn go on to graduate and some notable
00:00:40Huskies including emeka okafor have been
00:00:42named academic all-americans in the past
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