The 2008/09 Connecticut Huskies were considered by many to be the best college b-ball team in America for much of the campaign.  While they ultimately made it to the Final Four, these Huskies never fully recovered from a mid-February injury to star guard Jerome Dyson. Hasheem Thabeet dominating the paint like no other center in CBB that season for the Huskies. With solid ball control coming from veteran A.J. Price and a young Kemba Walker, many scribes gave these wounded Huskies a good shot at defeating eventual 08/09 national champion-to-be UNC. The Huskies exited from the dance in the semifinals at the hands of Tom Izzo's MSU Spartans, who were inspired to peak performance by the 70,000+ mostly partisan fans in the Detroit-held 2009 Final Four.