NEW YORK -- It's pretty clear when you start talking to UConn coach Jim Calhoun that he's a New England guy. But the branches of the coaching tree that he's spawned come straight through Philadelphia.
Penn coach Glen Miller and Virginia coach Dave Leitao, whose Cavaliers will come to the Palestra next month (and whose star players, Sean Singletary, is a Philadephia native), both used to be assistants to Calhoun.
And while the Huskies didn't make it to the NCAA Tournament last season, Miller and Leitao did -- along two other former Calhoun assistants, George Washington's Karl Hobbs and Southern Connecticut State's Howie Dickerman.
Calhoun was happy to talk about them all when I asked him. He also spoke at length about scheduling games in the Big East, why football will keep the conference from shedding any of its teams, and the youth of this year's UConn squad.
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