No, I don't think UConn holds the scheduling cards just because they are the home team. When UConn came to play at Texas a few seasons ago, it was "conveniently" scheduled a couple of days after their road AAC conference game in either Houston or Dallas during their semester winter break, I believe; they didn't travel back home (after that game and prior to our game), instead simply staying in Texas, and practicing a day or two before making the short trip to Austin for the ESPN primetime matchup.
I do think UConn holds the leverage against any team (not named Notre Dame, Baylor, Stanford, or South Carolina) who wants to play them in a non-conference series; if the proposed scheduling doesn't work for UConn, they simply move on to the next program in line who wants to schedule them.
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