UConn Women’s Basketball dominates in Its final AAC quarterfinal

Report­ing and edit­ing by Dan­ny Barletta
March 7, 2020
UCTV

The UConn wom­en’s bas­ket­ball team beat Tem­ple 94–61 in the quar­ter­fi­nal round of its final Amer­i­can Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence Tour­na­ment. The win moved the Huskies all-time AAC record to 137–0. Fresh­man Aubrey Grif­fin was the star of the game with 15 points and 16 rebounds while senior Crys­tal Dan­ger­field led all scor­ers with 22 points.

 

UConn Men’s Basketball drops a close one to No. 14 Villanova

Report­ing and edit­ing by Dan­ny Barletta
Jan. 18, 2020
UCTV

The UConn men’s bas­ket­ball team faced off with the Vil­lano­va Wild­cats for the final time as non-con­fer­ence oppo­nents. Unlike the pre­vi­ous two matchups, this game was tight through­out. UConn dom­i­nat­ed in the paint, but Vil­lanova’s supe­ri­or three-point shoot­ing was enough to give them the 61–55 win.


 

UConn football outmatched by Tulane

Report­ing and edit­ing by Dan­ny Barletta
Oct. 13, 2019
UCTV

The UConn foot­ball team trav­eled down to New Orleans to take on Amer­i­can Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence oppo­nent Tulane. UConn was out­played in all facets, and Tulane cruised to the 49–7 victory.

 

UConn gets payback on Louisville in the Elite Eight

Report­ing and edit­ing by Dan­ny Barletta
April 1, 2019
UCTV

The UConn wom­en’s bas­ket­ball team punched a tick­et to its 12th con­sec­u­tive Final Four with a hard-fought 80–73 win over Louisville. The Huskies got their revenge from a loss to Louisville ear­li­er in the sea­son when it real­ly count­ed behind a 29-point per­for­mance from Katie Lou Samuelson.

 

Students of Storrs Podcast: UConn Softball episode

Host­ed and pro­duced by Dan­ny Barletta
April 23, 2020
UCTV and The Dai­ly Campus

Two mem­bers of the UConn soft­ball team, Reese Gue­var­ra and Sam Bar­nett, join me on the Stu­dents of Storrs Pod­cast to break down the team’s promis­ing 2020 sea­son that was cut short. We also dis­cussed their per­son­al jour­neys to UConn and careers so far.

 

UConn Volleyball beats Providence: Highlight reel

Video, report, and edit­ing by Dan­ny Barletta
Sept. 22, 2019
UCTV

The UConn Vol­ley­ball team beat Prov­i­dence three sets to two to wrap up a week­end sweep in The Dog Pound Chal­lenge held at Gam­pel Pavil­ion. Here is a com­pi­la­tion of high­lights from the win.

 

UConn Football gets crushed by South Florida: Slideshow

Pho­tos, edit­ing, and nar­ra­tion by Dan­ny Barletta
Oct. 29, 2019
Port­fo­lio, Uni­ver­si­ty of Connecticut

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut and the Uni­ver­si­ty of South Flori­da faced off Oct. 5 at Pratt & Whit­ney Sta­di­um at Rentschler Field for an impor­tant con­fer­ence game. UConn had some sol­id indi­vid­ual per­for­mances but was ulti­mate­ly out­matched in a 48–22 blowout win for USF.

NFL running backs with 300+ carries in a season since 1994: Data Visualization

by Dan­ny Barletta
Nov. 17, 2019
Port­fo­lio, Uni­ver­si­ty of Connecticut

In the last 25 years, the game of foot­ball has great­ly changed.  NFL offens­es don’t rely on a work­horse run­ning back any­more and, as a result, such run­ning backs have become near­ly extinct. 

As seen in the fol­low­ing chart, the late 1990s and 2000s were dom­i­nat­ed by run­ning backs car­ry­ing the ball over 300 times every sea­son. In a few sea­sons, the num­ber even hit dou­ble dig­its. But since 2013, there has­n’t been more than two run­ning backs with that many carries. 

With more of a focus on play­er safe­ty today and the NFL becom­ing more of a quar­ter­back league, this is far from a sur­pris­ing development.