Peter Burns

Background

About Peter Burns

Shock the World: UConn Basketball in the Calhoun Era by Peter F. Burns, Jr. Before March 2011 only four coaches had ever won the NCAA men’s basketball championship three times or more. That month, with the culmination of the famous “March Madness,” the University of Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun became the fifth. In twenty-six years at UConn, Coach Jim Calhoun changed a team, a university, a state, and college basketball. Shock the World is a riveting season-by-season, game-by-game, and player-by-player biography of Jim Calhoun’s winning program. It paints a vivid portrait of college basketball in the last twenty-six years and highlights the challenges Calhoun overcame to become the best program builder of all time, and the greatest coach of his generation. Peter F. Burns, Jr. was born and raised in Ansonia, Connecticut and educated at UConn. In 2001 the University of Connecticut Alumni Association named him as its outstanding young alumnus of the year. He is a professor of political science at Loyola University New Orleans.