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STORRS, Conn. -- UConns new athletic director says hes waiting to hear from the Big 12 about its interest level in the school before reaching out with an official pitch to join the conference.The Big 12s school presidents on Tuesday moved closer to expansion, directing Commissioner Bob Bowlsby to begin evaluating schools interested in joining.UConns David Benedict, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press on Friday, acknowledged the Huskies are interested in being evaluated.At this point in time the Power Five conferences certainly are looked to as the most competitive conferences, he said. They derive the most money from their multi-media agreements, their television agreements. And therefore, certainly we aspire to be in those conferences and compete at that level.UConn currently competes in most sports in the American Athletic Conference.Benedict was hired in March to succeed Warde Manuel after he left for Michigan. Benedict said of all possible candidates, UConn is the most similar to the Power Five schools, with $71 million athletic budget.He noted it was one of three division one schools this past year to send its football, baseball and mens and womens basketball teams to the postseason. And since 1995, UConn has won 11 womens national basketball championships, four mens basketball titles, two in field hockey and one in mens soccer. The schools football program also has been to six bowl games.But Benedict said he has no plans to pick up the phone and call Bowlsby or head to Texas with a PowerPoint presentation.He said its his understanding that the Big 12 will reach out to those it knows have an interest.I dont think circumventing that process is the way to go, he said. But I dont think there is a question as to whether or not the Big 12 is aware that we would have an interest if they are interested in us.Benedict said if the school does join the Big 12, he believes it would eventually need to expand its 40,000-seat football stadium in East Hartford. But he said they cant do that until Husky fans consistently sell out the building.He said the school is currently concentrating its efforts on raising private donations to upgrade its baseball, softball, soccer and hockey facilities. There is still no timetable for construction, but Benedict said the school has about $14 million committed to the project, with a goal of raising another $11 million.Thats a priority for us, because it also sends out the message that we are going to invest in facilities that are up to (Power Five) standard, he saidBenedict said an intact American Conference is still a viable alternative should the Huskies be passed over by the Power Five. But he said the idea that UConn would consider rejoining the Big East for sports other than football is not currently on the table.Everybody is jockeying for position, he said. Part of my role and responsibility is making sure were looking at all options, keeping all options open to make sure we put ourselves as a university and an athletics program in the best possible position to compete. Air Vapormax 97 Mens . Robinson finished with 17 points, all but two in the second half, and Lawson had 14 after halftime and finished with a game-high 11 assists as the Nuggets handed Dallas its first home loss in eight games this season. J.J. Hickson led Denver with 22, and Kenneth Faried added 10 points and 10 rebounds. Air Vapormax 97 Nz .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. http://www.airvapormaxnz.com/air-max-tn-sale-nz.html . "It doesnt get any better than that," Giambi said. "Im speechless." The Indians are roaring toward October. 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De Kocks 135 from 117 balls, the 10th ton of his ODI career and second in the series following an unbroken 138 in the opening game in Bloemfontein, saw the Proteas overhaul Englands 318-8 with 22 balls remaining and shave the tourists lead to 2-1 with two games to play in Johannesburg on Friday and Cape Town on Sunday. Eoin Morgan, AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock share their thoughts after England suffered a seven wicket defeat to South Africa in the third ODI. Hashim Amla (127 from 130) posted his 22nd fifty-over hundred during a clinical opening stand of 239 with De Kock, the 32-year-old the third man to reach three figures at SuperSport Park after Joe Roots masterful 125 from 113 deliveries - the Yorkshiremans highest ODI total - earlier in the day.Root shared a steady salvo of 125 with Alex Hales (65) and a boisterous partnership of 82 from 54 balls with Ben Stokes (53 from 37) after England were put into bat, but a spell of four wickets for 22 runs towards the death, triggered by Roots run out, stalled the visitors progress. Joe Roots 125 was his highest score in ODIs Jason Roy (20 from 23) provided a brisk cameo up top, a staple of his series so far, cracking four boundaries before he was run out by Morne Morkel from third man attempting a second run in the sixth over.Hales had flashed Kyle Abbott for two fours in the preceding over but showed the patience he displayed while scoring 99 in Port Elizabeth on Saturday early in his tandem with Root, with his only iffy moments coming when he attempted to play the cut shot.Hales freed his arms in the 21st over, though, while striking successive fours off Imran Tahir, with Root smoking the first maximum of the match off the recalled David Wiese an over later as the pair secured their century stand from 107 balls.Root was given a lifeline on 44 when De Kock shelled a sharp one-handed chance behind the stumps but Hales and Jos Buttler (0) were not so lucky in the 27th over, the former spiralling Kagiso Rabada (2-65) into the deep and the latter clipping the seamer to leg gully for a first-ball duck. Ben Stokes added a quick-fire 50 for England England skipper Eoin Morgan (8) chipped Wiese (1-64) to midwicket in the 34th over to end an ungainly 24-ball innings, leaving Stokes and the fluent Root to biff 82 for the fifth wicket, Root notching his seventh ODI ton in the process.dddddddddddd Joe Root’s magnificent innings ends when looking for a run off a ricochet into the non-striker’s stumps The century maker was run out by Wiese in the 43rd over having amassed 10 fours and five sixes and surpassed his previous best score of 121 against Sri Lanka at the 2015 World Cup, the 25-year-old and Stokes suffering a breakdown in communication as the ball ricocheted off the stumps at the non-strikers end.Moeen Ali (3) then clocked Morkel (1-63) into the deep and Abbott (2-50) picked up the scalps of Stokes and Chris Jordan (3) in successive balls, though Adil Rashid (13no from 7) and David Willey (13no from 8) lifted the tourists above 300 by tonking a maximum apiece. Quinton de Kock celebrates reaching his century during the third ODI De Kock, though, helped render those exploits futile with a storming innings, showing his intent in the first over by creaming a pair of exquisite cover drives off Willey, two of 16 boundaries he would go on to collect.The Johannesburg-born star also blasted four sixes before looping Rashid (1-45) to Root at mid-off in the 38th over, with Wiese (7), promoted up the order to No 3, joining him shortly after when bowled by Moeen (1-75).But Amla, whose wristy effort contained 13 fours and two sixes, and Faf Du Plessis (33no) took South Africa close to victory with a stand of 62, before Du Plessis completed the highest successful run chase at Centurion, beating West Indies 300-3 in 2004, after Amla clipped Jordan (1-54) behind.Will South Africa square up the series in Johannesburg on Friday? Find out from 11am on Sky Sports 2. You can also follow all the action with our live blog. 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