It was arguably the most dominant team in UConn men’s basketball history, and next month the 2004 national championship-winning squad will take its place among all-time Huskies greats. The team will be inducted into the Huskies of Honor before UConn’s game against Xavier at the XL Center on Jan. 28, the program announced Tuesday.
Led by imposing big man Emeka Okafor, sharpshooting guard Ben Gordon and a supporting cast loaded with talent– Taliek Brown, Charlie Villanueva, Josh Boone, Rashad Anderson, Denham Brown, Marcus Williams, Hilton Armstrong– the ’04 Huskies went 33-6, won the Big East tournament and rolled through the NCAA Tournament, not dissimilar to the way the 2023 Huskies did.
UConn won its first four tournament games by an average of 17.5 points before outlasting Duke 79-78 in the national semifinals. The Huskies made the title game look routine as well, leading by as many as 20 points and cruising to an 82-73 win over Georgia Tech.
UConn entered the ’04 season as the No. 1 team in the country and many believed the Huskies were the clear-cut best team in the nation all season long.
“Going wire-to-wire is one of the hardest things you can do, and it wasn’t just the beginning of the year for us,” Calhoun told reporters after the title game. “This wire-to-wire went September to April, and that’s as hard as it gets.”
Okafor, who shared NABC National Player of the Year honors with St. Joseph’s star Jameer Nelson, was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.
A day after the men won the title, the UConn women’s team finished off a season in which it went wire-to-wire as well, making UConn the first school to capture the men’s and women’s basketball championships in the same year. The Huskies went on to do that again in 2014.
The 2004 team joins the 1999 squad as the first full men’s basketball teams inducted into the Huskies of Honor, which was created in 2006. Five women’s teams have been inducted so far.
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