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UConn basketball lost a close 68-66 battle against Villanova on Wednesday, as the Huskies couldn’t finish the job after multiple opportunities missed down the stretch. Head coach Dan Hurley was disappointed after the game but expressed a great deal of optimism about the team going forward. “Really hard-fought game,” Hurley said via Aaron Bracy of Big […]

UConn looks to stay undefeated in Big East play as they face Villanova. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a UConn-Villanova prediction and pick. UConn comes into the game sitting at 12-3 on the year. They opened up the year 4-0 before heading to the Maui Invitational, where they would lose […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves are still trying to find their footing after the Karl-Anthony Towns to New York Knicks trade that shocked the NBA world. The Wolves are currently 17-17 and in tenth place in the Western Conference standings. Perhaps looking to add quality depth, the Timberwolves made a recent roster move with the signing of […]

UConn basketball started 2025 with a major injury scare. Star forward Liam McNeeley left his New Year’s Day contest against DePaul early. McNeeley left gingerly against the Big East Conference foe, with Rob Dauster of The Field of 68 catching the concerning moment for the Huskies. “Liam McNeeley looked to roll an ankle after a […]

Allow me to potentially be the first to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year as I welcome you to the final edition of Bracketology at ClutchPoints in the year 2024! Before we get into the most updated Bracketology projections, I want to share some rapid-fire, bullet-point observations from a day in […]

Following an overtime win over Xavier, UConn (9-3) will play its first Big East road game of the year when they travel to Butler (7-5) on Saturday. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a UConn-Butler prediction and pick. UConn is riding a five-game win streak into the meeting that puts them […]

Two teams start their Big East schedule as Xavier visits UConn. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Xavier-UConn prediction and pick. Xavier enters the game sitting at 8-3 on the year. They opened up the year 6-0 before falling to Michigan 78-53. Since the loss, they are just 2-2, losing […]

After securing a 77-71 win over the Gonzaga Bulldogs at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, Dan Hurley said six words that UConn Huskies fans have been hoping to hear ever since the two-time defending champions dropped three games in three days in the Maui Invitational: “The group’s got its confidence back.” The Huskies have […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Gonzaga-UConn prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Gonzaga-UConn. There are a number of high-end college basketball matchups on a big Saturday with a full card of games. This is one of the best. It’s Gonzaga versus UConn in Madison Square Garden in […]

It’s time to continue our Women’s College Basketball odds series with a UConn-Notre Dame prediction and pick. Find out how to watch UConn-Notre Dame. This is yet another blockbuster in the early weeks of the women’s college basketball season. We have seen a few games played on the West Coast, such as when UCLA crushed […]

The No. 25 UConn men’s basketball team picked up its second straight win with a 76-65 victory over Texas on the road on Sunday, and head coach Dan Hurley tentatively spoke more positively about his team after the game. “Maybe the people with the shovels and the dirt, maybe they were too quick to grab […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a UConn-Texas prediction and pick. Find out how to watch UConn Texas. The college basketball season has unfolded in a number of very strange ways. One is that UConn lost three consecutive games on three consecutive days in Hawaii at the Maui Invitational. Day 1 […]

The Maui Invitational was not kind in any way, shape, or form for the UConn basketball team. Dan Hurley’s team lost all three games on the island to unranked opponents in a brutal turn of events. On Wednesday, UConn bounced back a bit with a win over No. 15 Baylor in Storrs. Despite a winless […]

After a disastrous Maui Invitational in which they lost not one, not two, but three games to previously unranked opponents, the UConn Huskies returned to the mainland and course-corrected with a 54-point win over Maryland Eastern Shore. But UConn’s first true test after a stunning collection of performances in Maui would come on Wednesday night […]

After losing three straight games at the Maui Invitational, the two-time defending men’s basketball national champion UConn Huskies desperately need a big win. If that win is to come on Wednesday night against Baylor, however, it will have to be without team leader Alex Karaban. Karaban suffered a concussion during the Huskies’ loss to the […]

It is a Top-25 match-up as Baylor visits UConn. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Baylor-UConn prediction and pick. Baylor comes into the game sitting at 5-2 on the year. They opened up the year with a loss to Gonzaga before winning four straight, including a win over a ranked […]

The 5-3 UConn men’s basketball team, fresh off an eighth-place finish out of eight at the 2024 Maui Invitational, remain ranked in the AP Poll, released Monday afternoon, and even UConn fans cannot believe it. The Huskies’ five wins have all come against teams rated 310 or worse in KenPom, and their three losses in […]

Welcome to another edition of Bracketology, and welcome to what I’m calling, The UConn Conundrum. As you’re surely aware by now, the two-time defending champion UConn Huskies had a disastrous stay in Hawaii over Feast Week, and that surprising 0-3 run in the Maui Invitational has raised a massive early season question… what do we do with […]

For most folks who get the opportunity to visit Hawaii, the experience is often one that has them raving about paradise when they return to the mainland. But Dan Hurley and the UConn Huskies may have a different perception, because there was no shortage of trouble in paradise throughout the extent of their stay in […]

The UConn basketball team came into the Maui Invitational ranked #2 in the country, and a lot of people were expecting them to win the entire tournament. What nobody expected was the Huskies to go winless in Maui for a last place finish. UConn has won the last two national championships and they are a […]

UConn basketball’s early woes have continued, losing to Dayton in a deflating 85-67 blowout at the Maui Invitational. In what has been three consecutive losses to unranked teams for the Huskies, head coach Dan Hurley has taken a lot of flak with each day of the tournament, and he addressed his squad’s struggles in Hawaii […]

The UConn basketball program had a dreadful trip to the Maui Invitational this week, losing all three games to Memphis, Colorado and Dayton. The Memphis and Colorado games could have gone either way, but the showing against Dayton was very lackluster for UConn basketball. The Huskies now sit at 4-3 on the season, with the […]

The UConn basketball program wrapped up a nightmare week at the Maui Invitational with an 85-67 loss to Dayton, and to make matters worse, Alex Karaban suffered a head injury and was sent for a CAT scan after the game. “We can’t predict what the (CAT) scan will be, but we anticipate it being normal,” […]

College basketball is always one of the most chaotic sports around and this season has been no different. If anything, the beginning of the 2024-25 campaign has been even more unpredictable than usual. There’s no greater evidence of that than UConn, the two-time defending national champions, losing its first two games at the Maui Invitational. […]

Despite coming into a loaded Maui Invitational field as one of the four unranked teams in the tournament, the Memphis Tigers are now just one win away from being crowned champions of what is arguably the most well-known event of Feast Week. In getting to this point, Memphis held off a late rally from the […]

The UConn men’s basketball program has had a rough stretch at the 2024 Maui Invitational. UConn lost two games in a row, first taking a 99-97 loss to Memphis and then a 73-72 defeat to Colorado. As stunning as UConn’s initial defeat was, the Colorado game especially got to head coach Dan Hurley After the […]

It has been a tumultuous week for the UConn men’s basketball team already. Dan Hurley and the Huskies came into the Maui Invitational ranked No. 2 in the country, but they have taken two consecutive shocking losses and will play in the seventh place game on Wednesday. On Monday, UConn lost its quarterfinal matchup against […]

The UConn men’s basketball program has had a challenging run at the 2024 Maui Invitational. After taking a 99-97 loss to the Memphis Tigers on Monday, the Huskies suffered a crushing 73-72 defeat to Colorado one day later. Dan Hurley’s squad has some things to improve upon amid their shocking showing. UConn became the fifth […]

The UConn basketball program suffered a 99-97 overtime loss to Memphis in the opening game of the Maui Invitational, and although the loss was surprising to many, head coach Dan Hurley admitted that he knew this season would be different from last, when the Huskies lost just three games and won a second consecutive national […]

The No. 2 UConn men’s basketball game suffered a rough 99-97 overtime loss to Memphis in the opening game of the Maui Invitational on Monday. A furious comeback in the second half to force overtime was impressive, but ultimately, the Huskies came up short in extra time, with a technical foul on Dan Hurley not […]

Feast Week is here in college basketball as numerous in-season tournaments got started on Monday, and one of the best is always the Maui Invitational. This year’s Maui Invitational features some great teams, and one of them is the UConn basketball team. The Huskies came into the tournament ranked #2 in the country, but they […]

The two-time-defending national champion UConn men’s basketball team saw its 17-game winning streak dating back to last season snapped on Monday with a 99-97 overtime loss to Memphis. To call the game “out of control” would be an understatement, and Huskies coach Dan Hurley made his feelings about the referees known after the game. In […]

The UConn men’s basketball program had their hands full against the Memphis Tigers at the Maui Invitational on Monday. Dan Hurley’s team found themselves down by double-digits with minutes left in the fourth quarter and found a way to force the game to overtime. However, UConn lost 99-97. Hurley was critical of Monday’s officiating, especially […]

The Memphis basketball program faced one of its toughest matchups of the 2024-25 season against the UConn Huskies at the Maui Invitational on Monday. Memphis pulled off a thrilling 99-97 overtime win to keep their undefeated streak alive. Head coach Penny Hardaway’s immediate postgame reaction captured the toughness of the Tigers squad: “We were very […]

The UConn basketball team fell in their opening round contest of the Maui Invitational against Memphis on Monday. The Huskies were expected to win this game fairly comfortably as they are ranked #2 in the country, and the Tigers are currently unranked. This game was filled with chaos as UConn ended up mounting a massive […]

UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley has never been one to hide his emotions, and not even the sunshine at the Maui Invitational could calm him down on Monday. Three minutes into the Huskies’ first game at the Maui Invitational, Hurley was already in midseason form. With UConn encountering a flood of early foul trouble, […]

In the first four games of the season, it’s safe to say that the UConn Huskies have not yet been tested by an opponent they’ve faced. On Tuesday night, UConn defeated East Texas A&M by the final score of 81-46. It was their fourth straight win by at least 35 points. And while you’d think […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a New Hampshire-UConn prediction and pick. UConn is the two-time defending champion in college basketball and they have a matchup against New Hampshire in this upcoming game. New Hampshire is 1-1 this season after getting blown out by UMass and then blowing out UMass-Boston in […]

One would assume that UConn head coach Dan Hurley would’ve been elated during his first postgame press conference of the season. Not only were the Huskies able to raise a championship banner which commemorated the sixth title that the men’s basketball team has won in the last 25 years, but UConn also cruised to a […]