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• Anthony Gharib, ESPNJan 18, 2024, 09:20 AM ET The UConn Huskies males’s basketball group is off to a 16-2 start after winning last season’s national championship game versus the San Diego State Aztecs.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated UConn has 4 players balancing double-digit points but has actually been paced by transfer guard Cam Spencer’s 15.5 points per game. The Huskies have 4 wins over ranked challengers, consisting of a 62-48 win over the No. 19 Creighton Bluejays on Wednesday night.The early success has actually led to UConn being the No. 1 group in the AP poll for the very first time given that Feb. 2, 2009. The Huskies ended up at No. 3 in the last AP survey that season and reached the Last 4, losing to the Michigan State Spartans.Here’s an appearance back at

what the world looked like the last time UConn was the top team in the guys’s survey.

Heart Kemba came off the bench Two years before he took the college basketball world by storm, Kemba Walker averaged 8.9 points as a freshman off the bench. He started in 2 of 36 games and appeared in each round of the Huskies’ March Madness run.Walker would lead UConn to a national championship in 2011, averaging 23.5 points throughout an unforgettable run.

Walker would lead UConn to a national championship in 2011, balancing 23.5 points per game during an unforgettable run. Streeter Lecka/Getty Images’

Simply Dance’ dominated the charts Girl Gaga’s launching track ended up being an unforgettable one. “Simply Dance” lived on the charts and made Gaga her first Grammy nomination, though it lost in the best dance recording category.The hit tune was slotted in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week UConn ended up being the top team in the country. “Just Dance “formally went diamond– selling 10,000,000 units– in April 2023.

UConn ladies’s group was in midst of legendary run

UConn had it good in men’s and women’s basketball in the late 2000s.

The Huskies ladies’s team was 21-0 and in the middle of 90 consecutive wins when the males’s group increased to No. 1 in 2009. UConn would finish 39-0 during a championship season led by Maya Moore, who averaged 19.3 points and 9.9 rebounds.Apple launched 2nd iPhone The days of flip phones were nearing

an end with Apple’s release of the first iPhone in January 2007. The second edition, the iPhone 3G, came out in July 2008. It marked the iPhone launching of the App Shop, GPS technology and a scientific calculator, to name a few new improvements. The second ever iPhone, the iPhone 3G, launched in July 2008. Picture by Jason Kempin/WireImage President Barack Obama’s very first inauguration Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009. Approximately

37.8 million people tuned in, making it the biggest audience given that Ronald Reagan’s very first inauguration in 1981. Though there is no official count, a minimum of one million people participated in Obama’s inauguration personally.