Last March, basketball fans in Connecticut went delirious when the University of Connecticut Huskies upset Duke for the NCAA Division I basketball championship. After fielding nationally ranked teams for many years, they finally made it to the Final Four and took advantage of the opportunity by playing a nearly flawless final game to win the top trophy.
Now UConn has its sights set on duplicating that success with its ice hockey program, hoping to someday compete with the Harvards and Boston Universities of the world. The school in the small town of Storrs, CT took a major step in that direction recently by building the University of Connecticut Ice Arena on the outskirts of campus.