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Kevin Ollie gets $7 million extension

Updated: December 31, 2012, 11:41 AM ET
By Andy Katz | ESPN.com

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut has given men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie a five-year contract extension worth just more than $7 million that will run through the end of the 2017-18 season.

Ollie has demonstrated to UConn that he can coach, lead, coordinate, relate and organize a program.

He also has had to ensure his players performed well academically, especially after a poor Academic Progress Rate spanning a four-year period at the school was the reason the Huskies were ...

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