Photos: Check out UConn's new uniforms

by Andrew Porter on Jan 25, 2012 11:00 AM EST in UConn Huskies Basketball

Here are your first photos of the new Nike Hyper Elite Platinum uniforms the UConn men and women will each wear this season. The men will don theirs this Sunday vs. Notre Dame, and the women will wear theirs when they face the Irish on February 27.

It appears for now that the uniforms are scheduled as a one-off design, so for the rest rest of the year the teams will be rocking their boring old Nike Hyper Elite uniforms -- no platinum.

The men and women are two of nine programs chosen to debut the Platinum line. The others are: Arizona, the Baylor women's team, Duke, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina and Syracuse. All of those teams have won national titles in Nike gear.

Photos courtesy of Ian from Sox&Dawgs.

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Sadly

I still think of Jerome Dyson when I see the #11 UConn jersey.

#FreeBoat

2011 National Champs in Men's Basketball
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Eat a bagel (like a mumu)
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by derbyguy on Jan 25, 2012 11:09 AM EST reply actions

To clarify

We are the only school where both programs are going to wear the special uniform?

2011 National Champs in Men's Basketball
FIRE DeLEONE
Eat a bagel (like a mumu)
Superbowl: Hoping for the meteor
1967: Embrace it

by derbyguy on Jan 25, 2012 11:10 AM EST reply actions

The real question is...

Is Shabazz still free to match these with highlighter green shoes?

/Does anyone else find these heinously ugly? Or is it just me?

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by CJ17098 on Jan 25, 2012 11:21 AM EST reply actions

these look

awful

by mynameisjon46 on Jan 25, 2012 11:37 AM EST reply actions

DISLIKE!

I agree. What hideous uniforms! Where’s the central blue/red theme?! Or Blue/White!

Marching to the beat of a different Drummond

Who Doesn't Like Icecreamcake?

by 1c3creamcake on Jan 25, 2012 12:10 PM EST up reply actions

It's impressive in a way

The fact that they were able to remove any blue from the uniforms is one thing, but the fact that they were able to remove all white is kind of impressive. It’s interesting though that if you look at the other schools in the link I posted below, most of them have their main color. (Syracuse has Orange, UNC has baby blue, Florida has blue _and_orange, etc.) It’s interesting that they played the red up on UConn’s so much, though from some of the pictures in there it looks like what I thought was black might just be a dark navy.

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by CJ17098 on Jan 25, 2012 12:16 PM EST up reply actions

My guess is

Nike didn’t have a red-dominant team so they just stuck us with that. Or, someone said, “Hey, cool red outline on the ‘U’ there” and built the entire design around it. It’s sharp, no doubt — especially in this Tron promo photo — but it’s also so very, very dumb.

by UConnBlog Justin on Jan 25, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions

You're right about the navy

Here’s a clearer look:

by UConnBlog Justin on Jan 25, 2012 12:53 PM EST up reply actions

That's a little better..

Do you have a clearer one of the women’s? Because right now theirs is looking pretty awful; I just noticed something that looks like pink along the sides..

UConn Huskies hold the record for most hate against a D1 university over a one year timespan. See: Our football and women's basketball teams.

by lookitsnikole on Jan 25, 2012 1:05 PM EST up reply actions

Here's a blurb

Which I assume was written by Nike’s PR people:

The performance push is boosted by employment of bonded seams and laser cut details. Both help to minimize weight while creating a uniform that reads cleanly both on court and on television (after all, the viewer is as important to uniform design as the athlete).

So…the goal was to create something that “reads cleanly on television” and the result is silver on gray?

BRILLIANT!

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by CJ17098 on Jan 25, 2012 12:03 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Ahahah

I’m cracking up right now..

Is it too harsh to say they couldn’t have done a worse job? I’m even trying to picture them NOT on headless bleach white mannequins, but it’s not helping..

UConn Huskies hold the record for most hate against a D1 university over a one year timespan. See: Our football and women's basketball teams.

by lookitsnikole on Jan 25, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions

I like them

Dont hate me

by JJSHusky25 on Jan 25, 2012 12:38 PM EST reply actions

Everyone is entitled to an opinion on here..

Sort of..

Just kidding. I think all the red is just throwing me off.. Maybe on the court, on real people, they’ll look different.. And maybe the black really is navy? In both cases, the women really got screwed.. So much red, no navy.

UConn Huskies hold the record for most hate against a D1 university over a one year timespan. See: Our football and women's basketball teams.

by lookitsnikole on Jan 25, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions

This is fucking ridiculous.

The jersey has nothing to do with UConn and everything to do with attention-seeking Nike looking to make a splash. The fact that they don’t use any of the school colors makes this very clear.

by UConnBlog Justin on Jan 25, 2012 12:46 PM EST reply actions