Former UConn men’s basketball star Khalid El-Amin was being held in Hartford Monday for failure to pay child support. 

El-Amin was taken into custody Sunday under a civil warrant signed by Judge Linda Prestley and ordered held in lieu of $10,000. The case dates to 2009.

El-Amin, 39, was being held in Superior Court. His lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.

El-Amin lives in the Minneapolis area, where he was born and raised, coaching a high school team and getting into TV work. He is a divorced father of seven children, ages 9-20. His oldest, son Ishmael, was a newborn when the Huskies went on their 1999 run. Ishmael is now a sophomore basketball player at Ball State.

After fielding several major Division I scholarship offers, El-Amin chose UConn, famously asking the coaching staff whether he would be brought in to back-up existing point guard Ricky Moore. El-Amin flourished in Storrs, leading the Huskies in scoring as a freshman on the way to capturing the Big East’s rookie of the year award in 1998.

As a sophomore, he helped the Huskies capture the first championship in program history, scoring the final four points in the team’s 77-74 triumph over Duke in the national title game on March 29, 1999. He left the team after his junior season and was drafted by the Chicago Bulls with the fifth pick of the second round (34th overall) in the 2000 NBA Draft. After a short-lived NBA career, El-Amin played professionally for more than 15 teams in at least eight countries.

The 5-foot-10 point guard won three state championships playing high school basketball in his native Minneapolis. He was a three-time recipient of the Minnesota Mr. Basketball Award, annually given to the state’s player of the year, and was also named a McDonald’s All-American in 1997.