![]() But it didn’t go our way tonight, and we’ll be back.” “I mean I could say I’d be happy with it if we won, but we didn’t so I wish I could’ve done more rebounding-wise, setting better screens, blocking more shots – I wish I could’ve done that stuff better to help us win. ![]() “I really don’t care about my stat line, we lost so that’s what’s bothering me most,” Clingan said. Sanogo and Karaban each finished with 11. Hawkins led the Huskies in the scoring column with 15 points while Clingan finished with a 12-point, 11-rebound double-double with four blocks in just 20 minutes. The UConn men, playing in front of fans in Providence for the first time in nearly a decade, since the original Big East days, watched as the deficit grew larger and the students in attendance began to party.Īs a team, UConn shot 36.1% from the field and made 5-of-22 from deep while being outrebounded, 40-38. I think what happens, players that aren’t playing well offensively, it then affects your defense and your effort when you’re missing shots or you’re not having a very good game offensively, it affected the effort of multiple players.”Īs the whistles whistled, UConn watched a deficit it had cut to five grow back to nine with 3:33 left, when the crowd broke into a Taylor Swift singalong. “I think that physicality and toughness was the issue in the first half. “They really attack you with their bodies, even on the offensive end of the court the way they throw their bodies into you,” Hurley said. After an emphatic fast-break dunk from Providence center Ed Croswell, the Friars extended their lead to eight with 11:20 to go. He went at Karaban, forcing UConn’s redshirt freshman into foul trouble as he scored 11 points from the free throw line in the latter period.ĭefensively strong inside and out, the Friars tested UConn early in the second half as the Huskies made a speedy entrance into the bonus with eight fouls in the first seven minutes after the break. It was the Hopkins show to start the second half. ![]() UConn, playing the road villain and wearing black jerseys for the first time this season, ‘HUSKIES’ across the chest, settled business inside the paint where 22 of the first 30 points came from. Providence played tight on-ball defense around the perimeter, forcing UConn away from the 3-point barrage it had become accustomed to. ![]() On the Huskies’ next possession, Newton found Clingan for his second slam of the game and Sanogo followed with a pretty turnaround jumper inside the paint that brought the Huskies ahead, 19-14, with about eight minutes until halftime.Ī scoring burst from Hopkins, a smooth 3-pointer and a fancy move in the paint that got him past Karaban for an open layup, tied the game at 20 before Sanogo toughed his way through contact down low to put the Huskies back up.Ī pair of Providence 3-pointers as time expired, with Clingan and Sanogo together again, gave the Friars a 33-30 halftime lead. Almost immediately, a Clingan steal led to a Sanogo fast-break dunk, assisted by Jordan Hawkins. The 13-foot, 11-inch frontcourt combo played together for just under four minutes in the first stint. “Obviously we need our older guys to be better, but we’ve got to get Donovan’s minutes up some way.” “We didn’t have much time in practice with (Clingan and Sanogo on the court together) so it was not pleasing to the eye in terms of the alignments and everything out there, but I didn’t want to get Donovan off the court. ![]()
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