UConn Huskies retire Ray Allen’s number

Jim Calhoun answers a question at a news conference on the UConn campus, while Ray Allen listens.STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Former Boston Celtic and UConn Husky Ray Allen returned to Harry A. Gampel Pavilion Sunday afternoon for his jersey retirement.

Once a Husky, always a Husky. Congratulations on the number retirement, Ray Allen \ud83d\udc4f #UConnNation #HuskiesForever pic.twitter.com/dE7N1ygdkh

— UConn (@UConn) March 3, 2019

The Huskies sent Allen’s No. 34 to the rafters during a halftime ceremony, making him the second player in school history — 1995 NCAA champion Rebecca Lobo is the other — to have his number retired. The school has just one criterion for retiring numbers: enshrinement in the…