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Alex Karaban scored 20 points, Tristen Newton added 17 and No. 4 UConn came back to beat Butler 88-81 on Friday night for its third straight victory without injured center Donovan Clingan. The Huskies (13-2, 3-1 Big East) trailed 42-35 at halftime but shot 55% from the field overall in front of a sellout crowd on the road. Cam Spencer also scored 14, including a critical 3-pointer that made it 83-76 with 48.1 seconds left. ....
No. 4 UConn broke out of its conference doldrums Tuesday night with an 85-56 rout of DePaul. Cam Spencer scored 20 points and Alex Karaban added 17 for the Huskies (12-2, 2-1 Big East). Hassan Diarra scored a season-high 14 and freshman Stephon Castle had 14 points and seven assists. ....
Samson Johnson made the most of his second start at UConn, helping the Huskies to their first conference win of the season. The junior center scored a career-high 16 points while filling in for injured star Donovan Clingan, and No. 5 Connecticut held off St. John’s 69-65 on Saturday night. Tristen Newton added 15 points, 12 in the second half — including a key free throw with just under 17 seconds left. ....
No. 17 UConn is headed to Canada for a game Wednesday against Toronto Metropolitan University, which is not an NCAA team but a member of the Canadian organization U Sports. Rick Nixon, a spokesman for the NCAA, said the game will be recognized as a regular-season contest and all the statistics will count under the organizations' rules involving “outside competitions." The only caveat, he said, it that because TMU (10-0) is not an NCAA Division I opponent, a win or a loss won't be calculated in UConn's NET rankings for consideration in postseason seeding. The game was scheduled as part of a tradition at Connecticut in which Geno Auriemma tries to give his players from out of state at least one “homecoming” game in their careers at a school near their hometown. ....
Unlike last season, UConn won't be perfect heading into the start of Big East play. What the Huskies accomplished in nonconference play this season might be more impressive. Donovan Clingan scored 21 points, Cam Spencer had 15 and No. 5 UConn ran away in the second half again, beating No. 10 Gonzaga 76-63 on Friday night. ....