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No. 4 UConn Takes Down Marquette For 10th Straight Win
1/4/2026 5:45:00 PM | Men's Basketball
STORRS – The No. 4 UConn men's basketball team (14-1, 4-0 BIG EAST) never trailed in a 73-57 win over Marquette (5-10, 0-4 BIG EAST) on Sunday afternoon at Gampel Pavilion. The win was UConn's 10th straight victory, marking its fourth double-digit winning streak in the past four seasons. UConn's 14-1 start matches the best 15-game open to a season in the Dan Hurley era.
Solo Ball led all players and three Huskies in double-figures with 17 points, snaring a season-high eight rebounds and adding a steal and a block. Silas Demary Jr. battled through foul trouble to score 14 points in 21 minutes, while Tarris Reed Jr. narrowly missed a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds. The Huskies held Marquette below 33 percent from the floor and finished +12 on the glass in the win.
How it Happened
A Reed Jr. bucket inside broke the ice as the two sides traded early jabs. The Huskies opened up their largest lead of the early going at 16-8 with a Jaylin Stewart feed to Eric Reibe on the block at 11:55. Later in the frame back-to-back jams from Stewart and Alex Karaban put the Huskies ahead, 24-15, before a timeout at 7:46.
At 4:18 of the first Reed Jr. rejected a shot on one end that led to a pull-up transition three splashed by Demary Jr. that gave UConn its largest lead at 31-20 before the final media stoppage of the opening stanza. The Golden Eagles pulled as close as five late in the frame, before a Reed Jr. slam gave UConn a 37-29 halftime advantage.
The Huskies opened the second half with a 7-2 run, going up 44-31 via a Ball 3-pointer at 16:57. After another 8-0 run it was an overall 15-4 sprint to start the second half that put the Huskies up 52-33 at 13:28, good for their largest lead of the day.
Connecticut went ahead by 20 for the first time with a Stewart slam at 8:12 that put the Huskies up 58-38. That effectively put the game on ice, as MU could not close any further than 19 until a pair of late 3-pointers in the final minute.
Inside The Numbers
- UConn shot 42.9 percent (27-63) from the floor while holding Marquette to a 32.3 percent (20-62), as both teams struggled from deep and each shot 5-of-24 (20.8 percent) from three
- The Huskies held a 40-30 edge in points in the paint
- UConn finished with a 49-37 advantage in rebounding margin
- Reed Jr. led the Huskies with nine boards, followed by eight from Ball and six apiece for Karaban, Braylon Mullins and Reibe
- Connecticut held an 8-3 advantage in blocked shots
- UConn entered the day 12th nationally with 5.8 swats per game
- Karaban and Reed Jr. tied for the game-high with two blocks apiece
- The Huskies turned 17 offensive rebounds into a 15-8 advantage in second chance points, also out-scoring MU 11-7 on the fast break and 18-15 off the bench
News and Notes
- UConn improves to 14-8 all-time against Marquette, has won six-straight in the series and is 11-2 against MU since returning to the BIG EAST ahead of 2020-21
- The freshman Reibe has pulled in at least five rebounds in eight of 15 contests
- The Huskies are off to a 4-0 start in conference play for the second-straight season
- The last time UConn had at least four winning streaks of 10+ games was from 2007-11 when they did it five different times
- UConn is one of four teams in the nation, joined by Duke, Houston and McNeese, to have four 10+ game winning streaks since 2022-23
- Ball led UConn in scoring for the seventh time this season and the 20th of his career
Up Next
The Huskies return to action on the road on Wednesday, making the short trek to Rhode Island for a weeknight tilt at Providence.
