We’re used to seeing former UConn basketball players on the rosters of pro championship teams. But a former student manager as head coach? That’s a new one. Mark Daigneault ’07 (ED) led the Oklahoma City Thunder through a dominant season to become 2025 NBA champions on June 22 — the first title in the franchise’s history. Daigneault was the men’s basketball team student manager from 2003-2007 under famed Huskies coach Jim Calhoun, who recalled their June 23 phone call to the Hartford Courant: