Three years after winning the national championship, two years after coach Jim Calhoun's departure and one year after being banned from the NCAA tournament, the Connecticut Huskies are back into the Elite Eight.

The program has Kevin Ollie to thank for the quick turnaround. The second-year head coach has seamlessly guided the storied UConn program through what could have been—and probably should have been—a very rocky transitional period and back to postseason glory.

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