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STORRS – Whenever UConn and Illinois meet on a basketball court, the Huskies’ 30-0 run in the 2024 Elite Eight is always going to come up.

Alex Karaban, the only Husky left who was part of it, says he hasn’t watched the highlights, but he might pull up the replay on the Thanksgiving train ride into New York City before the teams meet again, this time at Madison Square Garden, in a top-15 Black Friday matinee.

“Good memories,” he said. “Whole different teams now, both sides, but I’ll still watch it.”

Karaban has had some highlight dunks this year, but his dunk during that run – when he swung onto the rim through contact with two hands, so aggressively that Hassan Diarra and Samson Johnson came over to give him a safe dismount – is one that wi

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