While speaking at the Senate Chamber during Husky Day about this past season and then his future, Jim Calhoun said Wednesday, "I haven't made my mind up about anything of that nature, but [players] will be in good hands no matter what."

Calhoun later said he has no timetable for a decision on whether to return for the 2011-12 season, which would be his 40th season in Division I and 26th at UConn.

"There's no rush," he said. "Last year I had to rush. This year, I don't have to rush. The minute the horn went off and we won the national championship, I had to find out what is best for me, where I feel most comfortable and if I wasn't coaching,what I would do."

Jim Calhoun is expected to have to return his postseason bonus and make a contribution to the university’s general fund if the Academic Progress Rate for the program does not meet NCAA standards.

According to the five-year contract extension Calhoun and UConn agreed upon in May, Calhoun is to receive a bonus equal to three months of his annual salary for winning the NCAA championship. Calhoun’s base salary is $350,000 (he makes nearly $2 million more in speaking and media fees), so that bonus, which would be paid in August, would be about $87,500.

However, the contract also stipulates that such a payment would only be made “if the Academic Progress Rate (APR) ... for the men’s basketball team has been satisfactorily met.” UConn should learn in a few weeks whether it meets APR standards, but it’s a virtual certainty that the program will fall short of the standard score of 925.

Connecticut guard Kemba Walker confirmed he will skip his senior season to enter the NBA draft.

“There’s a lot of speculation about me going to the NBA,” Walker said as he began his press conference. “I want to confirm everything. I’ll be giving up my senior season and going on to the NBA.”

Walker thanked his teammates, his family and his coach.

“I want to thank coach (Jim) Calhoun for turning me into a man,” Walker said.

Walker averaged 23.5 points, 4.5 assists, and 4.5 assists in leading UConn to the national championship.

“He’s just completed the finest basketball season in the history of this university. One-hundred and eleven years, I believe it is,” Calhoun said. “He’s done everything humanly possible, in my opinion, that he could possibly do including a national championship.”

Kemba Walker will declare for the 2011 NBA Draft, according to sources that spoke with the Hartford Courant and ESPN.

Jim Calhoun has said he has advised Walker to forgo his senior season.

Walker had left his options open due to the potential for an NBA lockout.

Maya Moore was selected by the Minnesota Lynx with the first pick in the WNBA draft on Monday.

Moore helped UConn win a record 90-straight games and also led the school to two national championships.

The four-time All-American averaged 22.8 points this season and 19.6 during her career. She was also the only collegian to play on the U.S. women's national team that won the gold medal at the world championship last October.

UConn junior guard Kemba Walker is expected to announce at 3 p.m. Tuesday that he'll enter his name in the NBA draft.

Walker is projected as a late lottery or mid-first round selection in the NBA Draft, to be held in June.

Walker averaged 23.5 points, 5.4 assists and 4.5 rebounds in 41 games as a junior. He scored 30 or more points 11 times, a UConn record, and is seventh on the Huskies' career scoring list with 1,783 points.

Statistical wizard Ken Pomeroy crowned Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger the tempo-free player of the year.

Sullinger posted a 120.4 offensive rating while using 27% of the Buckeyes’ possessions while he was on the floor. The Buckeyes’ center also ranked in the top 50 nationally in both offensive and defensive rebounding percentage, and fouls drawn per minute.

Pomeroy calculates his rankings using offensive rating and possessions used, as well as Dean Oliver’s measure of individual defensive stops.

UConn’s Kemba Walker (.521), BYU’s Jimmer Fredette (.487), Duke’s Nolan Smith (.472), Purdue's JaJuan Johnson (.450), San Diego State's Kawhi Leonard (.421), Wisconsin's Jon Leuer (.419), Texas' Jordan Hamilton (.401), Wisconsin's Jordan Taylor (.391), and Kentucky's Terrence Jones (.390) rounded out the top ten.

Jim Calhoun has given every indication that he plans to return to the bench next season, but a stipulation in the five-year extension he signed last year will give him some control over how he leaves should he decide to retire. Calhoun’s contract reads:

Upon Coach Calhoun's resignation or retirement from the head coaching position at UConn, he will receive either a one-time payment of $1,000,000 or secure employment in a full-time position in the University Division of Athletics for a maximum of five years at an annual salary of $300,000.

Calhoun, 68, is 607-230 in 25 seasons at Connecticut.

TV ratings for Monday's NCAA championship game between Connecticut and Butler were down significantly from a year ago.

Connecticut's defense-dominated 53-41 win Monday on CBS earned an 11.7 fast national rating and 18 share.

That's down 18 percent from last year's Duke-Butler final, when the underdog Bulldogs had a chance to win it at the buzzer.

The entire tournament, with every game televised nationally for the first time, averaged a 6.4/14, up seven percent from last season.

The Final Four at Reliant Stadium established a new standard for the event's highest total attendance — 145,747.

Those numbers were much more palatable than the ones posted by Connecticut and Butler on Monday during a universally panned title game won by the Huskies 53-41.

But not even a lackluster final could dampen the enthusiasm generated in a city that hadn't hosted the Final Four in 40 years.

"This is what a showcase, what a national championship should feel like," NCAA interim executive vice president of championships Greg Shaheen said Tuesday. "It was exactly what we hoped it would be."

Which is good for Houston, since the Final Four returns in 2016.