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STORRS, Conn. wholesale jerseys . -- Jim Calhoun was advised not to return to the bench so soon after back surgery, and was supposed to take it easy if he did. So much for following doctors orders. Calhoun, who was out on medical leave for more than a month, was back pacing the sidelines and screaming Saturday, leading Connecticut to a 74-65 win over Pittsburgh. "He was there to be our backbone when they was making runs," Huskies guard Ryan Boatright said." It was just a whole nother vibe with him back on the sidelines. The surgeon who performed spinal surgery on the coach Monday was watching from the stands, said associate coach George Blaney who handled post-game media duties for the exhausted Calhoun. "He came in the locker room after the game and said, Just a normal post-op kind of thing, you just go and coach a game," Blaney said. "He said, When you were running up and down the sidelines I was getting concerned." Shabazz Napier scored 23 points, including a big 3-pointer with a minute left, and Roscoe Smith added 14 points and seven rebounds for the Huskies (18-12, 8-10 Big East) who kept alive hopes for an at-large bid to defend their NCAA championship. J.J. Moore led Pittsburgh (16-15, 5-13) with 16 points. The Panthers, fresh off a 20-point win over St. Johns, came back from a 14-point halftime deficit to take a 61-60 lead with 2:51 left on a 3-pointer by Tray Woodall, but could not hold on and lost for the sixth time in seven games. UConn went on an 8-1 run, going up 66-61 on Napiers 3-pointer with just over a minute left, right after Smith took a charge from Moore to get UConn the ball. The Huskies were up 70-62 after a layup by Napier, before a 3-pointer on the other end by Gibbs cut the lead to five with 31 seconds left. Four free throws by Napier and Lamb sealed the win. "When I looked on the sidelines, (Calhoun) would pump me up," Napier said. "There is just something about him -- he just brings that energy." Connecticut jumped on Pittsburgh early, going up 8-2 off the tip and opening the 14-point halftime lead. Calhoun spent much of the first half on the bench, occasionally pacing the sidelines or taking issue with the referees. But by the time Pitt had cut the deficit to five with just over 11 minutes left, the Hall of Fame coach was back on his feet, his tie loosened, screaming encouragement and yelling when the Huskies failed to get out to defend the 3-point line. A jump shot by Gibbs made it 48-45 with 10 minutes left and a 3-point play by Moore tied the game at 48 with 9:20 left. UConn went back up by six, before Moore tied it again with a jumper with 4 minutes left. The Huskies closed the first half on a 15-4 run, scoring 12 points off nine Pittsburgh turnovers, to turn a 21-18 lead into a 36-22 halftime advantage after a 3-pointer by Shabazz Napier. Jeremy Lamb also had 14 points for the Huskies. Ashton Gibbs and Lamar Patterson each had 12 for Pittsburgh. Pitt shot 63 per cent from the field in the second half after being held to 31 per cent before intermission. "I thought for a stretch there we were about as good as weve been all year long," said Pitt coach Jamie Dixon. "Weve shown stretches for a good amount of time, but not quite long enough." This was the first time the two schools have met without either of them being ranked in 15 years. Connecticut needed the win to improve its NCAA tournament resume. The Huskies had lost nine of their past 12 games and this was just their sixth win since Jan. 1. But the Huskies came in with an RPI ranking of 36, and played what many experts said was the toughest schedule in the nation. Calhoun received a standing ovation when he walked on the floor and another rousing ovation as he was introduced to the crowd. The Hall of Fame Coach took his medical leave on Feb. 3 and missed the Huskies last eight games because of the effects of spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spine, normally associated with aging and sometimes with arthritis. He underwent a two-hour surgery Monday in New York involved removing a large disk fragment that had been pressing on a spinal nerve. The surgeons decompressed the area around the nerve. "He was fresh out of surgery and still to come and coach us and give it his all meant a lot, so we just wanted to play as hard as we could for him," Lamb said. The team went 3-5 in Calhouns absence, and is 5-6 this season without the Hall of Fame head coach this season. He missed the teams first three conference games while serving an NCAA suspension. Calhoun now has 871 career wins, sixth on the career list and just five behind Adolph Rupp. Pitt had won four of the last five meetings with Connecticut, but the teams had not played since last years 76-74 win by UConn in the Big East tournament. The two teams have combined for 12 Big East regular season or tournament championships over the past decade. cheap jerseys from china .J. -- The New York Giants are not only back in the playoff hunt with a four-game winning streak, theyre calling the plays that get them those wins. jerseys from china . -- Canadian Erik Bedard pitched into the fifth inning in his bid to win a spot in Tampa Bays rotation, helping the Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Saturday.ARLINGTON, Texas -- Luis Montes scored two minutes before a leg injury sent him to the hospital, helping Mexico beat Ecuador 3-1 Saturday in the first of three tuneups in the U.S. leading to the World Cup. Montes drove a left-footed shot into the lower left corner of the net from just outside the top of the goal box after a pass from Oribe Peralta in the 33rd minute. Shortly after the goal, Montes and Ecuadors Segundo Castillo became entangled and went down chasing a loose ball. Castillo limped off the field and didnt return. Montes never got up. Montes, a key member of El Tris midfield, covered his face as he was carried off on a stretcher to cheers from the pro-Mexican crowd of 84,876 at the home of the Dallas Cowboys. The club said he was being examined for a possible fracture of his lower right leg. Castillo was hospitalized for further evaluation of a right knee injury. Mexican captaain Rafael Marqez also went to the hospital for an injury to his right foot in a separate first-half play. nfl jerseys china. Mexico, coming off a 3-0 win over Israel, plays Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday night in Chicago and Portugal on Friday in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Its World Cup opener in Brazil is June 13 against Cameroon. Ecuador has one more exhibition -- against England on Wednesday in Miami -- before opening the World Cup June 15 against Switzerland. Marco Fabian, who replaced Castillo, scored a long shot that again beat Ecuador keeper Maximo Banguera diving to his right for a 2-0 lead in the 69th minute. Giovani dos Santos made it 3-0 when his shot bounced off the post and went off Bangueras head into the net in the 76th minute. Ecuador scored in the 80th minute when Enner Valencias free kick just outside the goal box caromed into the net off Mexicos Hector Moreno. cheap jerseys from china cheap jerseys ' ' '