{"id":200058,"date":"2023-06-15T08:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=200058"},"modified":"2023-06-15T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:09:21","slug":"five-covers-to-celebrate-fifth-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/06\/five-covers-to-celebrate-fifth-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Covers to Celebrate Fifth Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer edition of <em>UConn Magazine<\/em> is hot off the press and celebrates the school\u2019s recent NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship in a special way.<\/p>\n<p>This edition of the magazine boasts five different covers, each commemorating the Huskies in a unique way. The <em>UConn Magazine <\/em>team, part of University Communications, chose to do five covers to reflect the number of NCAA championships won by the Husky men in their history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really wanted to seize the moment with the timing of the issue and do something fun,\u201d says Lisa Stiepock, the magazine\u2019s editor. \u201cA total of 16 championships for the men and women since 1995 \u2014 it deserves something extra, starting with a triumphant cover. We worked with the staff at University Communications and ended up with five concepts we really liked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were all so good, we were having a hard time choosing one,\u201d says associate editor Julie Bartucca \u201910 (BUS, CLAS), \u201919 MBA.<\/p>\n<p>Stiepock says: \u201cSo we decided to make a little <em>UConn Magazine<\/em> history and print all five covers to celebrate win number five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The magazine has a total print circulation of approximately 235,000 and the distribution of each cover will be entirely random and not by ZIP code, graduation year, or last name, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The five covers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A pair of illustrations, by freelance illustrators Shaw Nielsen and Wenjia Tang, based on original concepts by UConn designer John Bailey, and a third photo illustration by <em>UConn Magazine<\/em> art director Christa Yung and UConn designer Andrew Janavey, all declaring UConn the \u201cBasketball Capital of the World;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>An illustration depicting a cut basketball net in the shape of the DNA helix \u2014 stating \u201cIt\u2019s in our DNA\u201d \u2013 by freelance artist Chris Gash; and<\/li>\n<li>A photograph of a hand with UConn\u2019s five NCAA championship rings by UConn photographer Peter Morenus. The fifth ring is a stand-in, the actual 2023 design will be revealed this fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/\">online version<\/a> of the magazine is also available now, and there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2023\/06\/15\/5covers\">special website<\/a> for Husky faithful to purchase prints of the five magazine covers as well as commemorative items such as coffee mugs, notebooks, apparel, stickers, and a poster with all five covers.<\/p>\n<p>The interior of the magazine sports an eight-page spread on the national championship, \u201cnoting our place as the basketball capital of the world,\u201d says Stiepock. \u201cDon\u2019t just take my word for it, read what CBS Sports\u2019 Jim Nantz has to say inside our summer issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer edition of UConn Magazine is hot off the press and celebrates the school\u2019s recent NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship in a special way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":200083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2235,102,2227,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-200058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 14:31:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200090,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200058\/revisions\/200090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/200083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200058"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=200058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=200058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}