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UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun reportedly will retire Thursday

By Chris Dufresne
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Several media outlets are reporting that Connecticut basketball Coach Jim Calhoun will announce his retirement on Thursday.

Calhoun, 70, has won won three NCAA titles at UConn but has been beset of late with a series of health issues and controversy surrounding his storied program.

Calhoun, who has recorded 873 wins, suggested in an interview last week with SI.com that he would make a decision on his future within two weeks. Calhoun is recovering from a broken hip suffered in a bike fall. He is also a cancer survivor.

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UConn basketball has been barred from the 2013 NCAA Tournament because it failed to meet NCAA academic progress requirements.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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