Order seems apparently restored at UConn after the disappointing disastrous results in Maui during Thanksgiving week. Still, is this price too high? Perhaps, as the X, while slightly disappointed with its three losses, looks competent enough to be in the mix for another Big Dance bid as Sean Miller's team shows signs of progressing. Two effective new pieces from last season, F Zach Freemantle (16.9 pgp; injured last term) and G Ryan Conwell (via Indiana State; 16.5 ppg) are now meshing with veteran holdover PG Dayvion McKnight (4.7 apg) after the Musketeers let crosstown-rival and 22nd-ranked Cincy off the hook on Saturday. The Huskies remain formidable but it is not the same suffocating defense of a year ago minus C Donovan Clingan (now Blazers NBA). Play Xavier