THE GARDEN

Having spent the last few days talking to the local players about how it feels to come home and play at Madison Square Garden, I have to admit that it's always a special trip here as a writer.
It's hard to explain — and maybe it's because I'm from New York — but there's a different feel to the Garden. I'm not one to get swept up in who's sitting courtside or things like that. But at the same time, you know it's something special when you're at MSG.
That being said, UConn can ill-afford to get too swept up tonight. The Huskies really need a win considering what their upcoming schedule looks like. And that whole inability to perform on the road thing is still over the players' heads, but as Jeff Adrien put it: "We’ve just got to get a win. It doesn’t matter if we’re on the road or not. It’s just about getting a win."