NEW YORK — A year ago at this time, Stanley Robinson was working at a scrap metal yard not far from the UConn campus in Willimantic, Conn. He was battling a combination of medical and financial issues, so UConn coach Jim Calhoun told the 6-foot-9, 210-pound forward to take a leave of absence from the basketball program to gain some perspective and maturity.“We told him to take the time off, told him he had to work,” Calhoun said Wednesday night after his No. 13 Huskies crushed LSU, 81-55, in the semifinals of the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden.
“If he came back, he would have to pay for his semester with a Pell Grant, and he did.”
Here’s my game story from The Baton Rouge Advocate.
