STORRS – The UConn men’s basketball program made history when it beat New Hampshire, 84-64, on Monday night at Gampel Pavilion.
The 20-point win was UConn’s 24th straight double-digit victory over a nonconference opponent dating back to the start of last year’s national championship season, breaking the record 23 set by North Carolina from 2008-09. UConn’s streak includes six double-digit wins over ranked teams, nine over power conference opponents and nine by 30 points or more.
“I think it’s great to share a record with the men from last year’s team,” head coach Dan Hurley said. “The whole group, it’s great to share something with them that will be tough to break, I think, moving forward in today’s game with the portal and everything that’s going on. It just speaks to the respect we have for our opponents, the level of preparation that we put in for every single game and just the formula that these guys buy into.”
Donovan Clingan made 12 of 13 from the field and 5 of 7 from the foul line to lead the way in what was a rough shooting night for the Huskies otherwise. Bristol’s 7-foot-2 product accumulated a career-high 29 points with seven rebounds, a block and a steal in just 21 minutes.
Tristen Newton came three assists shy of a second consecutive triple-double as he finished with 17 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists despite shooting 0-for-5 from beyond the arc. Cam Spencer made three of UConn’s four 3-pointers and finished in double-digit scoring for the sixth game in a row, totalling 17 points with four rebounds, four steals and three assists. Samson Johnson was the fourth Husky to get into double-digits as he finished with 10 points, eight rebounds and two blocks off the bench.
UConn made just 32 of 70 (45.7%) shots from the field and was 4 of 28 from the 3-point line (14.3%).
“Those were wide open 3s that we missed. These guys need to get in the gym, need to get off their phones, they need to get off the video game headset and get in the gym because those were wide open looks,” Hurley said, “seething,” to use his word, over the officiating in the second half.
New Hampshire shot 29 free throws in the final 20 minutes – “Is that a record?” Hurley asked – after going the entire first half without sending the Wildcats to the line once.
Assistant coach Tom Moore was called for a technical foul, despite Hurley attempting to hold him back, after Newton was hacked on a layup attempt in the second half and fell hard onto his back. Hurley received a technical of his own after speaking with the referees during the final media timeout.
“We have a lively bench, and I guess there was too much enthusiasm, too much passion, too much energy. We should be more, I guess, buttoned up… I’m not sure why that needed to be called at that point (on Moore),” Hurley said. “But, again, the 29 free throws in the second half of that, things just kind of went off the rails… We’d like to avoid that this Big East season, those types of situations where Tom’s got a technical, I’ve got a technical. We’ve got one of the best programs in the country, we’re the defending national champs, I need to stay off those guys but everyone’s got a job to do.”
Before the extreme fouling (18 total against UConn in the second half compared to just three in the first) New Hampshire started the game turning the ball over nine times in its first 15 possessions.
Spencer scored eight early points on three shots, two from beyond the 3-point line and the other from just in front of it as UConn used a 20-3 run to jump out to a quick 28-11 lead. New Hampshire’s Jaxson Baker scored 15 consecutive points with a string of five made 3-pointers to help the Wildcats cut UConn’s lead down to 10 with four minutes left in the first half.
The Huskies took a 45-30 lead into the break with New Hampshire shooting a scorching 8 of 12 from beyond the arc. The Wildcats made just one of their first 14 shots from the field in the second half and finished the game shooting 18 of 50 from the field (36%) and 13 of 27 (48.1%) from beyond the arc. They made only 15 of their 29 free throws.
Still, UConn’s poor shooting let the Wildcats cut what was once a 28-point deficit in the second half to just 20 at the final buzzer.
“We got the looks that we wanted, I just feel like it was an off-night,” Newton said. “Not acceptable but it was just an off-night, we’re not gonna think too much into it we’re just gonna get back in the gym, shoot shots. I think it would’ve been worse if we would’ve stopped shooting, lose our confidence and not shoot. I’m just glad everybody had their confidence and felt like the next one was gonna go in, everybody was telling each other to keep shooting. We all believe in each other and we feel like that’s a one-off game that shouldn’t happen. We have tremendous shooters and tremendous confidence.”
UConn (7-0) heads to No. 5 Kansas for its second ranked contest of the season at Phog Allen Fieldhouse on Friday.
“We’ve got to be much better for what’s coming on Friday,” Clingan said.
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