Well I hope that some of you can have some fun with this. I know it's not "perfect" but hey.
This is a test of the yard for both random Husky knowledge and Boneyard knowledge.
I didn't really try to arrange them in order of difficulty.
Some of the "answers" are images. Click on Jonathon to see the "answer".
After you make your guess, click on the question link to see the question.
Have fun and good luck yarders.
"Things in common":
$200 - Shea Ralph, Kennitra Johnson
Which
UConn players had tattoos?
$300 - Kelly Hunt, Kelly Miller
Name
two basketball players who had a twin sister.
$400 - Sandra Hamm, Wanda Flora, Jean
Balthaser
Who are the three UConn Head Coaches before Geno?
$500 - Debbie Baer, Jen
Rizzotti
Who are the two ex
Huskies that now are head coaches in schools located in West Hartford?
"What's their
Record?":
$100 - Asjha
Jones
Which UConn player played in 144 games, more than
any other player?
$200
- Tamika Williams
Which UConn player had a career .703 scoring
percentage?
$300 - Nykesha Sales
"Who holds the Husky record for the most points scored in a
single game at 46?"
(Plus, the all-time career scoring record.)
$400 - Kerry
Bascom
Who hit 19 free throws in a single game?
(Other records acceptable.)
$500 - Kara Wolters
Who
holds the record for most points in a season with
694?
"Recruits":
$100 - Laura
Harper
Who is Laura Harper?
$200 - Marlo...er Mel
Thomas
Who is Mel Thomas?
$300 - Crystal Langhorne
Who
is Crystal Langhorne?
$400 -
Charde Houston
Who is Charde Houston?
$500 - Shamika Jackson
Who
is Shamika Jackson?
"Name the
game":
$100 - Who
dominated Fri. December 20 2002
against Pepperdine University?
This is one of the "Boneyard specials".
Little chance of getting this one correct if you are not a bonyarder through and
through. Being smart about basketball alone is not enough to get through life!
Great game by the team and great all around game by Diana. the Waves never knew
what hit them - a Tsunami maybe?
$200 - What happened at UConn versus
Seton Hall February
2003
Another"Boneyard Special" This was one of the games that
our own Nan had primo lower level seats and combined that view with her own
recollect to give us some insightful descriptions of the action. She proclaimed
that on one play Maria streaked down the court ahead of everyone for an easy
layup. Just so happened that Biff had his camera at the ready on that same play
and caught the moment - just as Nan described it (kinda)
$300 -
How far was the shot against Tennessee Jan 4th, 2003?
C'mon who could forget that game and
especially the finish of the first half. 65 feet if it was an inch and another
dagger into Pat's heart. She will probably want to give Diana's commencement
address if given the chance just to make sure she really leaves.
The photo
also inspired a later Boneyard Magazine cover. (remember which
one?)
$400 - Which recruits were watching
the Melbourne exhibition Game November
2003?
Doggydaddy got it
correct that it was one of the exhibition games but guessed the wrong one. Funny
now that you look at it, we were zero for three in this group. Good luck
Kia.
$500 - Which Husky scored for UCLA at Gampel Pavilion, December 1999? (not sure of
the year)
I may not be sure of the year but this was the game
where Swin grabbed a board off a missed freethrow and nailed a 15 foot jumper.
None of the UCLA players even tried to stop her -why should they? It was their
basket she was shooting at! A classic moment in Husky
history.
"What's their
Story?"
$100 - Jill
Gelfenbien
Who went to the final four as
the soccer goalie in 94, got talked into walking on the basketball team and became a part of history in 95? Two final fours in the same academic year. The
right place at the right time I guess.
$200 - Orly
Grossman
Who played for UConn while her native country was
under attack (Desert Storm), with fear of terrorist action against her and
the team?
(The team (like most other teams) also adopted wearing the flag on the
uniform (The USA flag) which she also needed to do. that's quite a lot to ask a
young lady to go through don't you think?
$300 - Colleen
Healy
Who started as
the manager her freshman year, made the team as a walk-on her sophomore year
and received three letters.
(Someone suggested that she may have received a
scholarship her senior year but I don't know. If someone can confirm that I'd be
interested because I do not know of a confirmed case where Geno has given a
scholarship and if this is a case I'd like to know. The thing to takeaway from
this one is let's treat our water girls well. They may be our next
player!!!!)
$400 - Renee Najarian and Sarah Northway but not
Tihana Abrlic and Rita Williams
Who are two transfers in from other D1 schools and
two transfers who took different routes?
$500 - Brenda
Marquis
Who joined the Huskies with Kelly Hunt, never really
got into the rotation (had Kara Wolters and Kelly in the rotation in front of
her - as well as Lobo her freshman year), decided for personal reasons she
wanted off the team after her sophomore year but Geno let her keep her
scholarship and finish her education?
"By the
Numbers":
$100 -
What happened in 1902?
(OK. this was for the di-hardest of di hards. Someone
posted this on the boneyard a while back and I saved the picture. I never knew
what I would use it for but I figured that only the person who posted it way
back would probably get this one correct!!! Sorry - this was one of my "dirty
ones"._
$200 - How many losing seasons has Geno
suffered?
(Yup, Geno has had
only one losing season since becoming head coach at UConn. His first season
(1985 -1986) he had a 12-15 record.)
$300 - What are Levis 501
Jeans and the number of wins Geno has through 2002-2003?
(Geno now sits at a remarkable 501 wins against 99
losses. Need I say more?)
$400 - What is the most number of games
played by the Huskies in one season?
(This was
just dirty pool on my part. Of course everyone was going to jump on this with
the obvious 39 wins in 2002. as correct as that was, I had another answer in
mind. that's why I made rule number 4 after all - (rule 4: Even if the answer is
right it's wrong if it's not the answer I want!!!.)
The answer I was looking
for (and it is sneaky I know) is that 39 games is the most games ever played in
one season by the Huskies! Sorry.)
$500 - What is the most number of rings
won by any Husky (so far)?
(I though that this was going to yield bad guesses too
but the correct answer is the most rings won by any Husky (so far that is) is
two. The person who correctly answered listed out all the players names that had
won two rings so I had to mark that one correct!)