Calling all UCONN Husky Fans

The Stratford Library will host author Peter Burns for a special “Meet-the-Author” program on Wednesday, March 13 at 7 pm.  Burns is the author of “Shock the World: UCONN Basketball in the Calhoun Era”.  The “March Madness” program is free and open to the public.

How Jim Calhoun made the University of Connecticut a basketball powerhouse and became the greatest coach of his generation is the subject of Burns’ book. After the 2012 season, the UCONN basketball program appeared to be on the decline. Several high-profile players departed early and the NCAA confirmed that it would ban the Huskies from the 2013 NCAA tournament. But Jim Calhoun—the man who built the program in the first place—still reigned in Storrs and vowed not to leave his team in disarray…..

In twenty-five years at UCONN, Coach Jim Calhoun changed a team, a university, a state and college basketball.  “Shock the World” is a riveting season-by-season, game-by-game and player-by-player biography of Jim Calhoun’s winning program.  It paints a vivid portrait of college basketball in the last twenty-five years, and highlights the challenges Calhoun overcame to become the best program builder of all time and the greatest coach of his generation.

“Meet-the-Author: Peter Burns” will be held in the Lovell Room of the Stratford Library on Wednesday, March 13 at 7 pm.  Autographed copies of “Shock the World” ($25) will be available for purchase after Burns’ talk. For further information call the library at 203.385.4162.