Okay– I was as bored as anyone watching the UConn-Butler game last night. Wow. It was rough. But it was cool watching the better team win, and UConn fans are going to love the book we did for them. It’s a perfect celebration of the season and amazing post season romp to history. Here’s the foreword I wrote for the book. It’s out Thursday. All over New England. Enjoy!
Foreword to Book:
There’s a reason a team takes its lumps during a nine-week romp through the toughest basketball conference on the planet. Pretty simply, it’s to get ready for something bigger. To prepare for something special. To make future achievements historic. In a National Championship game that was billed as a battle of the dogs, the alpha dog hammered the underdog. And one night for the Huskies pretty much summed up one season for the Top Dogs in college basketball. Adversity turned into opportunity. Deficits turned into victory dances. And in the end, when there was no time left on the clock and no games left on the schedule, challenges morphed into championships.
There was no script to follow for the 2010-11 UConn Huskies, because the path they followed to their third national title was carved out by one of the most gritty and resilient teams we’ve seen in college hoops.
Led by a hall-of-fame coach and a true-blue college superstar who showed the world what a student athlete looks and acts like, this Huskies team gave themselves and their fans an unending supply of memories and a lifelong lesson that when you want something, you don’t ask for it. You just go out and get it. Cheers to a special team and an unforgettable accomplishment.