Jim Calhoun is a real s.o.b. if he declines. Suck it up that you lost, and let your players play in a game they earned.

Losers............

as my coach would of said... "you guys &%^#! sucked out there!!!"

Uconn does not deserve to participate in any tournament. They are lousy. I cannot beleive that they were a top 25 team early in the season.

As a graduate of UCONN, I remember when a basketball player was a "student"athlete. The past couple of seasons they seem to have become "student" thugs. I wonder if their combined GPA is more than 1.0. I doubt it. Wake up Calhoun, change your recruiting strategy, bring in the "student "athlete, not an individual star. They do not deserve to play in the NIT, they did not earn it.

Instead of traipsing all over the country (world) trying to get players, the RECRUITING travel expense should be restricted and used to develop what should be the UCONN source of talent... CONNECTICUT HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS... they should be running clinics for CT HIGH SCHOOL COACHES as to what skills would be needed to play game properly.

My cousin went to UCONN Camp as an 8th-grader and really learned a lot, then his idiot HS coaches had him and other AAU players play "their way" -- the result being every week their varsity team with 6'3"++ front line was defeated constantly by scores like 40-24. If they took high-percentage shot instead of mindlessly passing the ball, they got benched (should have 30-second clock in high school).

Lot of good players turned off by such coaches and didn't bother with hassle of school teams... just played rec leagues.

UCONN's coaches should be FORCED to treat CT high schools as their "minor league" and towns should require their coaches to attend UCONN coaching clinics.

AND... UCONN's 12 basketball scholarships... 10 should be required to go to CT high school students, and the other two could be used for out of state or to get a Sudanese tower.

If GENO or JIM can't win with the talented players from our 169 towns, then they are not good COACHES (anybody can recruit nationwide and have good records... that is just "managing" a team...) all I see is that GENO and JIM are managers... and I'd like to see them COACH and the beneficiaries should be our home-grown talent, after all, it is the UNIVERSITY of CONNECTICUT!!!!!!!

you are just a fool for even typing this unreal nonsense. really this commentary is nothing more than laughable

Calhoun is just in it for the paycheck now.He could care less about the team.

All these negative comments are ridiculous and come from fair weather fans with no knowledge of hte situation or season. The team quit on Calhoun, not hte other way around. Dyson was a cancer and has been a cancer since his freshman year. An ex player once told me that Dyson would do his own thing out on the court and not run the offense. He is a black hole, a ball hog and not at eam player at all. He only cared about his personal stats and trying to get his draft stock up. UConn is talented but there is no reason for Calhoun to accept an NIT bid if the team is not going to play as a team. The best thing to do is decline the bid and save face for the team, university, and state of CT. Also who ever said the team GPA is not above 1.0 is grossly mistaken.

If he can not get the team to play get rid of him. Get some that CAN motivate the loser. Everybody right he's in it for the money and that's it........

Is anyone really sure the team wants to play anymore? The starters didn't seem to really want to be on the floor the last few games. Why embarrass themselves if they really don't have the heart. We know they have the talent, beating high ranked teams, but then playing down to teams they should have had no problem with, and too often losing. Calhoun isn't to blame, he doesn't play on the floor, the guys are to blame for lackluster effort. NO NIT in my opinion.

Calhoun is a loser, can't motivate the team them QUIT
UCONN thinks it's too big big of a team too be involved in a 2nd rate tournament?
LOSERS

Why punish the whole team ?

I'm glad they are going to the NIT. Next season starts today.

I thought Kemba Walker, for one, played better in the last few games of the season. Sit the seniors, play the underclass men. Let them get some tournament experience they can use next year when its their team.

Its time for Calhoun to go to florida and grow tomatoes. He is as much to blame for this eason as are his over rated thugs posing as players. Theres no mystery as to "what happened" they were never that good to begin with. Showboats like Walker care about one thing. "walker". Maybe next year Calhoun can start recruting from jails around the country. NIT give me a break.

another fool go eat your cereal for suppa hater

For all those with negative comments on coach callhoun, I would bet that you guys were the first inline when the team was on top. Please people If you dont have a clue about basketball or Uconn dont comment it really makes you look stupid! For the record I support whatever move he makes he has taken a program that was the laughing stock of the NCAA and turned it into one of the most powerful programs in the country. You dont think perspective students are looking at Uconn because its in the beautiful state of CT. Hell if it werent for Calhoun nobody in the country would know what the heck or even where Uconn was. To top it off his doings helped the school in more ways than just mens basketball, beleave me the Gampel pavilion would still be the field house if it werent for Calhoun.

beautiful state of CT. Hell if it werent for Calhoun nobody in the country would know what the heck or even where Uconn was. To top it off his doings helped the school in more ways than just mens basketball, beleave me the Gampel pavilion would still be the field house if it werent for Calhoun.