Injuries may have derailed UConn’s season, but ultimately the derailment is what the NCAA Tournament selection committee looks at first. What that means, as the Connecticut faithful have understood for a while now, is that the Huskies will have to win the AAC Tournament outright in order to make the Big Dance. UConn has won the American Athletic Conference’s postseason tournament once and finished as the runner-up twice, but didn’t win a single game last season, and will be underdogs for most of the tournament.
That doesn’t mean that this Huskies squad can’t upset a couple teams to earn the conference’s automatic bid, but the news that Alterique Gilbert is unavailable makes things a little more difficult.