NCAA basketball news: UConn coach Calhoun takes leave of absence<\/strong><\/p>\nSadly, Calhoun is under the weather again; details weren\u2019t disclosed, but he\u2019s taken a medical leave of absence from UConn for a \u201ctemporary\u201d problem that doesn\u2019t involve any of his previous conditions.<\/p>\n
What we’re hearing is according to several reports. Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun’s leave of absence is caused by a stress-related issue, and he could be back within 10 days.<\/p>\n
Heck he’s at home de-stressing?? Wow. This is great news for UConn hoops fanatics, as I know we all thought this was “cancer related” or “blood pressure” related right?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to see why Connecticut Huskies players rally around coach Jim Calhoun so easily and often. The guy has beaten prostate cancer and two rounds of skin cancer.<\/p>\n
The two-time national champion coach had his hands full already this season with UConn grinding out an 11-6 record and falling out of the Top 25.<\/p>\n
Associate head coach George Blaney has his work cut out for him, especially with No.1 Texas coming to town this Saturday.<\/p>\n
UConn athletic director Jeff Hathaway said “Our primary concern is Coach Calhoun’s health and his complete recovery,” and “We will do everything possible to support Coach during this time.”
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Jim Calhoun is taking some time away from UConn hoops for the indefinate future. We’re hearing sources told the Hartford Courant that stress is playing a role in the leave, and one told the newspaper that the duration of the time off is tentatively planned for 10 days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[22950,22842,1771,22948,22529,22945,22951,22949,22947,22946],"class_list":["post-18305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-cbb-headlines","tag-college-basketball-news","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-george-blaney","tag-ncaa-basketball-news","tag-ncaab-headlines","tag-uconn-athletic-director-jeff-hathaway","tag-uconn-coach","tag-uconn-hoops","tag-uconn-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108599,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305\/revisions\/108599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}