UCONN OC DUNN LEAVING TO JOIN NEW YORK JETS No. 5 UConn women host Temple today in AAC game at Gampel
UConn's John Dunn, who was promoted to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach following the 2018 football season, resigned on Friday to accept the tight ends coaching job with the New York Jets, head coach Randy Edsall announced.
Offensive line coach Frank Giufre was promoted to replace Dunn and oversee the offense.
"I want to wish John well with the Jets and thank him for his contributions to our program this past year," Edsall said in a release. "I'm very excited to promote Frank to offensive coordinator.
“He will do an outstanding job continuing the system we have in place and will provide stability for what we want to do moving forward this season and for many seasons to follow."
Guifre joined the Huskies in 2018 after spending six years as the offensive quality control coach with the Indianapolis Colts. His first offensive line helped produce a pair of 1,000-yard rushers in quarterback David Pindell and running back Kevin Mensah.
In addition, Edsall announced that running backs coach Mike Moyseenko will move from runnings back coach to quarterbacks coach and East Lyme's Kyle Weiss, a Wesleyan graduate, will assume Moyseenko's former role as running backs coach after spending the 2018 season as UConn's quality control coach.
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No. 5 UConn plays the second of three consecutive home games today when the Huskies host Temple in American Athletic Conference women's basketball game at Gampel Pavilion (1 p.m., SNY).
The game is UConn's annual Play4KayPink game. The Huskies will honor breast cancer survivors and will be holding an auction on www.uconnhuskies.com/PinkAuction to raise money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
UConn (20-2, 9-0) is coming off a 118-55 rout of East Carolina on Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford and will finish its homestand on Monday night against No. 12 South Carolina, also in Hartford, in its final non-conference game of the season at 7 p.m.
In Wednesday's win over East Carolina, senior Katie Lou Samuelson snapped out of a brief shooting slump by scoring a game-high 31 points while fellow senior Napheesa Collier went 10-for-10 from the floor for 21 points, and junior point guard Crystal Dangerfield had 12 assists, just one shy of the team's single-game record.
Samuelson (18.9 points, 7.0 rebounds) and Collier (18.9, 9.7) continue to lead the Huskies in scoring and rebounding, and one of them has led the team in scoring in 19 of the 20 games.
Dangerfield (13.3 points, 5.9 assists), sophomore Megan Walker (12.6 points, 6.7 rebounds) and freshman Cristyn Williams (10.7 points) are also averaging in double figures for the Huskies.
UConn, which is never lost in 110 AAC games (including postseason), already owns an 88-67 win over the Owls (8-14, 4-5) on Jan. 19 in Philadelphia. They are 12-2 all-time against Temple, which arrives at Gampel on a four-game winning streak after defeating Houston 76-65 on Wednesday. Mia Davis leads the Owls with 19.4 points and 9.0 rebounds per game.
• In other news, UConn announced it has scheduled two future games against Maryland of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Huskies will host the Terrapins, currently ranked No. 10 in the nation, during the 2020-21 season and visit Maryland in the 2021-22 season. Maryland made its eighth straight NCAA tournament appearance in 2018.