Bascom's mom had been very sick with
multiple sclerosis so Bascom wanted to stay close to home. She narrowed her college selection down to
UConn,
Boston College,
Syracuse University,
Rutgers University and
Boston University. She chose UConn, which was 2½ hours away. Bascom was coach
Geno Auriemma's first blue-chip recruit. Her freshman year was challenging as many of the upperclassmen had been recruited by the prior coach. Her freshman roommate was a senior, who would occasionally lock her out of her room. When Bascom used to tell people she was going to UConn, some thought she meant
Yukon—as in the frigid Canadian territory—instead of the University of Connecticut, because at that time the school was not well known. That would all change. In her time at UConn the team had a lot of firsts for the university. The Huskies won the first regular-season Big East title (sophomore year). They also won their first Big East Tournament championship. In her senior year the team went to their first
NCAA Final Four trip. As at Epping, Bascom finished her career as the leading scorer in points, with 2,177. In 1998,
Nykesha Sales broke the record via a controversial staged layup at the start of a game after suffering a season-ending injury. Bascom graduated with a
bachelor's degree in
sociology from UConn. The Bascom wore 24 as her
uniform number. When Nykesha Sales was considering attending UConn, she asked for number 42; Sales had worn number 24 in high school, but out of respect for Bascom asked to have the digits reversed.
Charde Houston later went on to wear number 24. As of 2009, Bascom's career scoring average of 18.1 per game is the highest among all UConn players. Her scoring average of 22.6 in 1988–89 is the highest single-season scoring average among all Uconn players. In addition, she ranks among the top ten in UConn history. for: • Career three-pointers (161) • Career three-point field goal average (39.9%) • Career free throw percentage (.798) • Career rebounds (915) • Career rebound average (7.6) • Single season points (680, in 90–91; 656 in 88–89; 615 in 89–90) • Single season scoring average (22.6 in 88–89; 20.5 in 89–90; 20.0 in 90–91) • Single season goals (246 in 90–91; 244 in 88–89) • Single season three-point field goal average (.476 in 88–89) • Single season free throws made (139 in 90–91) • Single season free throws made (125 in 89–90) • Single season free throws percentage (.837 in 90–91) Bascom occupies five of the top ten positions in the most points in a single game list, as well as top ten positions in numerous other single-game categories. Bascom was a member of the inaugural class (2006) of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "
Huskies of Honor" recognition program. Bascom received a special award on February 5, 2011, as part of the National Girls and Women In Sport Day. Bascom was the recipient of the award recognizing "an individual who has made significant contributions to the advancement of women's sports on the UConn campus".
University of Connecticut statistics World University Games (1991) Bascom played for the USA team, one of sixteen teams at the fifteenth World University Games (1991) held in
Sheffield, England. The team was coached by
Tara VanDerveer, and teammates included
Lisa Leslie and
Dawn Staley. The USA team won all eight games it played, earning the gold medal. Kerry scored 40 points, played in six of the eight games, and hit ten of seventeen three-point attempts, for a team-best 58.8% three-point shooting percentage. ==After college==