#4 UConn Routs UMass Lowell In Historic 110-47 Win

HARTFORD – The No. 4 UConn males’s basketball workforce (2-0) fully dominated UMass Lowell (1-1) by means of a 110-47 choice on Friday evening at a sold-out PeoplesBank Arena. The Huskies set this system file by racing out to a 47-point halftime lead and had seven gamers rating in double-figures within the rout.

Tarris Reed Jr. made his season debut for the Huskies and it couldn’t have gone significantly better, because the senior massive man completed 17 minutes of play with 20 factors, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks on 9-of-12 capturing for his 11^th profession double-double. Silas Demary Jr. added 16 factors, seven assists and 4 steals whereas Solo Ball (14), Malachi Smith (14), Alex Karaban (13), Eric Reibe (11) and Jaylin Stewart (10) additionally completed with double-digits.

The Huskies opened the sport on a blistering 44-3 run and didn’t permit a area aim for over 13 minutes of sport motion. UConn shot over 60 p.c on the day for the primary time since Feb. 10, 2024 and held UMass Lowell underneath 25 p.c.

How it Happened

The Huskies jumped forward fast, scoring the primary 11 factors of regulation with Reed Jr. breaking the ice on UConn’s first journey with a putback. Ahead of the primary media timeout Ball and Karaban splashed back-to-back 3-pointers and UConn took a 17-1 edge to the primary timeout at 15:18 of the opening stanza.

Minutes later, Smith rattled off a private 9-0 run to place the Huskies up 26-2 with 13:10 to play within the first. The Huskies saved their foot on the throttle in full for the opening 20 minutes, opening up an absurd 44-3 lead with a Jayden Ross steal-and-score earlier than a UML timeout at 7:37. The Huskies would go on to take a 64-17 result in the break, capturing 68.6 p.c within the first half and holding the River Hawks to 12.0 p.c.

The second half featured extra of the identical. Reed Jr. polished off his double-double together with his 10^th board on the 10:50 mark of the body. Both sides subbed liberally late, permitting for the official UConn debuts of Rrezon Elezaj and Uroš Paunovic.

Inside The Numbers

• The Huskies shot a blistering 60.9 p.c (42-69) from the sphere, hit at a 39.1 p.c (9-23) clip from 3-point vary and completed 77.3 p.c (17-22) from the road

  • UConn final shot over 60 p.c when it hit at a 61.1 p.c clip on Feb. 10, 2024 towards Georgetown
  • Conversely, UConn held UML to 21.3 p.c (10-47) capturing from the ground and a 4-14 (28.6 p.c) day from downtown
  • UConn final held a foe under 25 p.c capturing on Jan. 31, 2016 when it restricted UCF to a 12-51 (23.5 p.c) day

• Connecticut was +24 on the glass, out-rebounding Lowell 46-22

  • Reed Jr. led the way in which with 12 rebounds and Ball, Reibe and Ross all had 5
  • The Huskies turned 15 offensive rebounds right into a 16-7 edge in second probability factors

• UConn didn’t permit a area aim till 6:18 of the primary, forcing 17 straight misses to begin the competition
• The Huskies compelled 11 turnovers earlier than their first miscue and completed +11 in turnover margin, out-scoring the River Hawks 35-8 in transition and 30-10 off turnovers
• Connecticut recorded 27 assists on 42 area objectives, led by Demary with seven and Stewart meting out a career-high six
• UConn completed with a 62-12 benefit in factors within the paint
• The Husky reserves out-scored the UML bench 37-11

News and Notes

• The Huskies enhance to 3-0 all-time towards the River Hawks
• UConn’s 47-point halftime lead was the biggest in program historical past

  • The earlier file was 40 (63-23) towards Wagner on 11/27/98
  • The largest prior halftime lead within the Dan Hurley period was 35 (62-27) towards Long Island on 12/10/22

• The 110-point outing for the Huskies marked essentially the most since they scored 114 towards LIU on Dec. 10, 2022 – that was additionally the final time UConn remodeled 40 area objectives
• The double-double for Reed Jr. was his first of the season and 11^th profession, it was additionally the fifth ’20 and 10′ double-double of his UConn profession
• Friday evening marked UConn’s 14^th-straight common season sellout in Hartford, a streak relationship again to Dec. 23, 2023
• UConn has now gained 19-straight in Hartford and has gained 35-straight dwelling video games towards non-conference foes

Up Next

The Huskies have a fast flip and return to motion on campus on Monday, Nov. 10 with Columbia visiting Gampel Pavilion at 6:30 p.m. on FS1.