Benjamin (Ben) Gordon (born April 4, 1983 in London, England, UK) is an American National Basketball Association player for the Chicago Bulls. He played shooting guard for the University of Connecticut in college and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York.

Walter Ray Allen (born July 20, 1975) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics, for whom he plays shooting guard. He has also played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Seattle SuperSonics. Allen is known as one of the best jump shooters in the history of the NBA, especially from three-point range.

Karl Hobbs is the head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. He has won two Atlantic 10 Conference championships, and has led the Colonials to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Hobbs is known for his high-energy, frenetic coaching style. He often spends entire games pacing up and down the sidelines yelling and whistling to his players.

Hashim Thabit Manka (born February 16, 1987 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian college basketball player for the University of Connecticut Huskies. He is known as Hasheem Thabeet, as his name was Americanized from Swahili. At 7'3" and 265 lbs, Thabeet is the tallest player to ever play for the Huskies..

James Caron Butler, known as Caron Butler (pronounced "Kuh-RONN") (born March 13 1980, in Racine, Wisconsin), is an American professional basketball player, currently starting at small forward for the NBA's Washington Wizards.

Marcus Darrell Williams (born December 3, 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's New Jersey Nets. In the 2006 NBA Draft, he was the 22nd player selected in the 1st round. Prior to the NBA, he played for the Connecticut Huskies. During his college career, he was known for his tremendous court vision and excellent passing.

Khalid El-Amin (born April 25, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional basketball player. He was a member of the 1999 UConn men's basketball team that won the NCAA championship. He is originally from Minnesota where he played for North High School in Minneapolis. In 2000, he was selected in the 2nd round by the Chicago Bulls of the NBA Draft and played 50 games for them, averaging 6.3 points and 2.9 assists per game.

Tom Penders is a college basketball head coach, currently in his third season at the University of Houston. He is from Stratford, Connecticut and has a 566-385 career record. Houston was a combined 39-24 wins in his first two seasons.

Chris G. Smith (born May 17 1970, in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American former professional basketball player. He is the University of Connecticut Huskies's career leader in scoring with 2,145 points. He is the top Husky scorer in Big East history with 1,140 points, leader in career three-point field goals with 242 and one of only two UConn players to score at least 500 points in three different seasons. Smith is also a member of the UConn Basketball All Century Team.

Rudy Carlton Gay, Jr. (born August 17, 1986) in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. Gay played collegiately at the University of Connecticut.

Donyell Lamar Marshall (born May 18, 1973 in Reading, Pennsylvania USA) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. His great uncle is Hall-of-Fame American football player Lenny Moore. A graduate of Reading High in Reading, Pennsylvania, the 6'9", 230 lb. forward was selected after his junior year at the University of Connecticut by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the fourth overall pick of the 1994 NBA Draft.

Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor (born September 28, 1982, in Houston, Texas), is an American professional basketball player playing at power forward and center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Prior to the NBA, Okafor attended Houston's Bellaire High School, and the University of Connecticut.

Rashad Shaheed Anderson (born November 9 1983 in Lakeland, Florida) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Egaleo AO in Greece. He previously played guard/forward for the UConn Huskies.

Richard "Rip" Hamilton (born February 14 1978 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) is an American National Basketball Association player for the Detroit Pistons. He is 6 ft 7 in, 193 pounds (2.01 m, 87.5 kg) and plays shooting guard and small forward.

Dennis Wolff (born March 1, 1955 in New York City) is the head coach of men's basketball at Boston University. Wolff finished his collegiate basketball career at UConn after playing two years at LSU. He became the head coach at Boston University following the 1993-1994 season, taking over for Bob Brown. He was previously the head coach at Connecticut College, where he coached from 1980 to 1982. In between his head coaching jobs, Wolff was an assistant at St. Bonaventure, …

Kevin Jermaine Ollie (born December 27 1972, in Dallas, Texas) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Prior to his professional career, Ollie starred at the University of Connecticut. After his college playing days were over, he joined the Connecticut Pride of the Continental Basketball Association. After that, he has spent 7 years in the NBA with 10 different teams.

Charlie Alexander Villanueva (born August 24, 1984 in Queens, New York City) is an American NBA player for the Milwaukee Bucks. Villanueva is a first-generation American, son of Dominican immigrants, Roberto Villanueva and Doris Mejia. He grew up in Queens before moving to New Jersey and resides in Brooklyn, New York, which he calls home. A 6'11" power forward, he was drafted 7th overall by the Toronto Raptors in the 2005 NBA Draft.

Oscar Joshua Boone (born November 21, 1984, in Mount Airy, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player for the New Jersey Nets of the NBA. He was a forward/center for the Connecticut Huskies where he played for three years. He declared for the 2006 NBA Draft after his junior season foregoing his final year of college.

Donny E. Marshall (born July 17 1972, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers the 2nd round (39th overall) of the 1995 National Basketball Association Draft. A 6'7" small forward from the University of Connecticut (after graduating from Federal Way High School in Federal Way, WA), Marshall played in five NBA seasons.

Hilton Armstrong, Jr. (born November 23, 1984 in Peekskill, New York) is a former forward/center for the University of Connecticut Huskies. He was selected by the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets (who have since dropped the Oklahoma City label) with the 12th overall pick in the 2006 NBA Draft. He is known for his shotblocking and athleticism for a big man.

Steve Pikiell is the head men's basketball coach at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Bob Staak (b. Darien, Connecticut) was a star at the University of Connecticut from 1968 through 1971. He had also served as the head coach at Xavier and at Wake Forest. He served one game for the Washington Bullets as an interim head coach in 1997, a loss.

Tate Claude George (born May 29 1968 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the 1990 NBA Draft from the University of Connecticut. He played a total of four years in the NBA for the Nets and Milwaukee Bucks averaging 4.2 points per game in his career. George is best remembered for his miraculous buzzer-beating shot to defeat Clemson in the 1990 NCAA Tournament.

Travis Knight (born September 13 1974 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 1st round (29th overall) of the 1996 NBA Draft. A 7'0" center from the University of Connecticut, Knight played in 7 NBA seasons from 1996 to 2003. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. In his NBA career, Knight played in 371 games and scored a total of 1,276 points.

James (Jim, or Jimmy) Foster (born December 16 1951, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a retired American basketball player. He was a 6'1", 175 lb guard and attended the University of Connecticut and played in the NBA from 1974-76 with the Spirits of St. Louis and Denver Nuggets. White was selected in the 1974 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers and in the 1974 ABA Draft by the Carolina Cougars.

Denham W. Brown (born January 6, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former college basketball player for the UConn Huskies. He was selected in the second round (40th overall) of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics.

Scott David Burrell (born January 12, 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professional basketball player who won an NBA Championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1998. He was also the first American athlete to be a first round draft-pick of two major sporting organizations (the NBA and MLB). A 6'7" multi-sport star at Hamden High School in Connecticut, Burrell was drafted by baseball's Seattle Mariners during his senior year.

Clifford Ralph Robinson (referred to as Clifford (or Cliff) Robinson) (born December 16 1966, in Buffalo, New York) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association.

Charles (Chuck) Aleksinas (born February 26 1959, in Litchfield, Connecticut) is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 4th round (7th pick) of the 1982 NBA Draft and played one season in 1984-85 for the Golden State Warriors. Chuck currently resides in Morris, CT and has played in many local amateur basketball leages. Aleksinas weighed 260 lbs, and stood at 6'11".

Robert Jacob Voskuhl (born November 1 1977 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a professional basketball player, currently playing center for the Charlotte Bobcats. Voskuhl attended the University of Connecticut from 1996-2000, where he was the starting center on the school's 1999 NCAA National Championship team. The squad also featured current NBA star Richard "Rip" Hamilton. He became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity while an undergraduate.