The Huskies are led by seventh-year head coach Dan Hurley in the team's fifth season since their return to the Big East Conference.

The Huskies play their home games at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on-campus in Storrs, Connecticut and the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

They defeated Xavier, St. John's, and Marquette to win the Big East tournament, receiving the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

That broke their own record of winning every game by 13 points, set the previous year.

[1] They set additional records in the NCAA tournament for largest combined margin of victory in all their games with 140 points; and by extension, the largest-average margin of victory of 23.3 points per game.