1960–61 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team
| 1960–61 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball | |
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| Conference | Yankee Conference |
| Record | 11–13 (6–4 YC) |
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| Home arena | Hugh S. Greer Field House |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island | 9 | – | 1 | .900 | 18 | – | 9 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maine | 7 | – | 3 | .700 | 18 | – | 5 | .783 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 11 | – | 13 | .458 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Massachusetts | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 16 | – | 10 | .615 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vermont | 3 | – | 7 | .300 | 9 | – | 11 | .450 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 1 | – | 9 | .100 | 6 | – | 18 | .250 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1960–61 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1960–61 collegiate men's basketball season. The Huskies completed the season with an 11–13 overall record. The Huskies were members of the Yankee Conference, where they ended the season with a 6–4 record. The Huskies played their home games at Hugh S. Greer Field House in Storrs, Connecticut, and were led by fifteenth-year head coach Hugh Greer.
During this season, three of Connecticut's players from this season's team in Glenn Cross, Pete Kelly, and Jack Rose (alongside a Connecticut football player named William Minnerly) were discovered to have been involved in the 1961 NCAA University Division men's basketball gambling scandal after noting a fix was going down on the March 3, 1961 game against Colgate University, which resulted in a 71–30 blowout win for Colgate. This led to the three players receiving permanent bannings from the NBA entirely, as well as the undergraduate players being expelled from the University of Connecticut following this season's conclusion.