Alex Karaban chases history as UConn's 'old dog that just won't die'

INDIANAPOLIS – Everyone can think of an old dog.

You know, the one that’s kind of crusty, maybe losing sight or hearing — or both — hair matted, walks pretty slow and doesn’t play fetch? The funny thing about them is, when it seems like they’re in their final stages of life, they just don’t die. You wait for the end, and you keep on waiting.

There’s an old Husky lurking in the Connecticut locker room. It’s Alex Karaban, and he just won’t go down.

“Everybody knows that old dog that just won't die,” said UConn center Tarris Reed Jr. “My auntie had an old dog, he lived for a while. He just wouldn't die. Just stayed around, it be hard to kill him. I feel like that's (Karaban).”

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