Simply two days after falling out of the AP Prime 25 for the primary time this season, the Connecticut Huskies bounced again in an enormous manner, knocking off newly-ranked No. 24 Creighton, 70-66.
The win for UConn was its first ever on the street in opposition to the Bluejays.
UConn trailed by as many as 14 factors within the first half and will’ve simply rolled over and known as it an evening in a hostile atmosphere. Liam McNeeley determined he wasn’t going to let that occur.
As you may see above, McNeeley had the perfect efficiency of his younger faculty profession within the Huskies win.
His 38 factors have been probably the most in a recreation by a freshman in UConn historical past, surpassing Richard Hamilton’s mark of 31 factors again in 2001.
Solo Ball (11 factors) and Alex Karaban (10 factors) have been each in double figures regardless of taking pictures a mixed 9-for-33 from the sphere and 0-for-11 from three-point vary.
66 factors for Creighton was its fourth lowest in Large East play and the second time in 4 video games it has been held beneath 70 factors.
The normally environment friendly Steven Ashworth was simply 1-for-8 (12.5%) from the sphere however nonetheless managed to complete with 13 factors resulting from making 11 free throws. Ashworth had made three or extra pictures from the sphere in each recreation this season till Tuesday’s loss.
Ryan Kalkbrenner was held to 13 factors, a bit beneath his season common of 19.2 factors per recreation.
UConn will matchup in opposition to Seton Corridor on Saturday and Villanova earlier than a highly-anticipated rematch in opposition to No. 9 St. John’s on Feb. 23.
Creighton will get a crack at that very same St. John’s crew first on Saturday and can look to brush the season collection over the red-hot Crimson Storm.
