{"id":65548,"date":"2012-09-13T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=65548"},"modified":"2012-09-17T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:13:27","slug":"calhoun-stepping-down-ollie-named-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/09\/calhoun-stepping-down-ollie-named-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Calhoun Stepping Down, Ollie Named Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Calhoun, head coach of UConn men’s basketball for the past 26 years, speaks with a reporter from SNY after a press conference announcing that he is stepping down. At left is former Husky basketball player Donny Marshall. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jim Calhoun, who took over a regional program at UConn 26 years ago and built it into a three-time NCAA champion and a perennial national power, has announced his retirement as the UConn men’s basketball coach at a press conference at Gampel Pavilion this afternoon. For a video tribute to Calhoun, go to UConnhuskies.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is succeeded as head coach by Kevin Ollie, former assistant coach, Husky student-athlete, and 13-year NBA veteran.<\/p>\n

Check back for more details from the press conference.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Ollie, UConn’s new men’s basketball head coach, speaks with reporters after the press conference. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Jim Calhoun, who built UConn into a three-time NCAA champion and a perennial national power, has announced his retirement as the men’s basketball coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":65551,"comment_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-65548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 20:42:25","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\/65548","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65563,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65548\/revisions\/65563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/65551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65548"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=65548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}