Former UConn forward Roscoe Smith has decided to transfer to UNLV.  By making his transfer official Smith becomes the third UConn player to transfer this off season and fifth in total to leave the team. Other transfers are Alex Oriakhi to Missouri and Michael Bradley to Western Kentucky.  The other players to leave UConn are Jeremy Lamb and Andre Drummond, who are both expected to be lottery picks in ...

Wednesday night Nerlens Noel announced he will be attending Kentucky next season to a live ESPNU audience. It seemed that with the 6-foot-10 Noel committing to current national champions, that head coach John Calipari and Big Blue Nation had bowed out of the race for UConn transfer Alex Oriakhi. However, Noel seems to disagree. In fact, the future-Wildcat center is even recruiting his fellow Massachusetts b ...

  Two days earlier UConn sophomore Jeremy Lamb not surprisingly decided to leave school and head to the NBA. Even less shocking is that freshman center Andre Drummond has also chosen to leave UConn and enter the NBA Draft. Drummond is expected to be a top-5 pick in June's draft. The high projection, along with NCAA sanctions against UConn sparked Drummond's decision. Even if UConn was eligible for the ...

Earlier this week it was reported that soon-to-be UConn transfer Alex Oriakhi would visit Missouri this weekend, then Kentucky the following the weekend. But after Wednesday night, when Nerlens Noel announced he would attend Kentucky, it seems that Big Blue Nation has unintentionally bowed out of the running for the 6-foot-9 junior transfer. Oriakhi planned his visits strategically. He set them around Noel' ...

Alex Oriakhi has officially been released from the University of Connecticut. The power forward who played so well during the Huskies run to the 2011 National Championship will move to greener pastures as NCAA sanctions threaten the UConn program. There is definitely a market for a 6-foot-9 power forward with big game experience and the teams interested in him are programs that have struggled due to inexper ...

UConn's reliance on Walker may lead to problems down the line in either the Big East tournament or the NCAA Tournament when opposing defenses find a way to put the glove on him. ...