Solomon Ball is having a fantastic sophomore season, up to 15 points per game on conference-best 3-point shooting. He dropped 25 at Marquette and 23 against Butler. Two-time champ Alex Karaban has played all but 15 minutes of Connecticut’s last five games. Freshman Liam McNeely is expectedo to make his return from a high ankle sprain.

But he remembers how electric the environment was, how there wasn't an arena of that size, with that energy, on any other college campus in the country. The matchup, a rematch of the 1995 title game that the Huskies had won,

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