STORRS– The UConn men’s basketball program filled out its 2025-26 roster earlier this month, but perhaps its most impactful signing happened Wednesday afternoon.

Elijah Randolph, a 12-year-old from Farmington, sat beside his parents, head coach Dan Hurley and his two current favorite Huskies, Solo Ball and Tarris Reed Jr., as he signed his letter of intent to become an official member of the program through Team IMPACT. Randolph has been battling Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN), a rare form of blood cancer, for the last two years.

In the process, which has included several rounds of chemotherapy and additional treatment, Randolph befriended Hurley’s wife, Andrea, who regularly volunteers at the Connecticut Children’s Cancer Center in Hartford and became his Uno

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