Boston University (1-0) at UConn (1-0)

Date & Time: Friday, Nov. 11 | 6 p.m.
Venue: Gampel Pavilion | Storrs, Conn.
Twitter: @BUGameDay | @TerrierMBB

BOSTON – Looking to hold momentum from the 72-63 season-opening win over Northeastern, the Boston University males’s basketball workforce will face a second Husky squad with a go to to UConn Friday night. Though the Fox Sports 2 broadcast is about to start at 6 p.m., followers can begin listening to Doug Brown and Brian Maurer at 5:45 p.m.

TERRIER TIDBITS

• BU is in search of its first 2-0 begin since opening the 2013-14 season with wins over Northeastern and UMass Lowell.
• A local of New Haven, Connecticut, graduate scholar Walter Whyte flushed a personal-best six 3-pointers en path to a career-high 27 factors in opposition to the Huskies on Monday and added a career-tying 13 rebounds for his Fifteenth double-double. He at present ranks nineteenth all-time at 1,265 factors, 35 shy of turning into the Fifteenth-ever Terrier to succeed in 1,300.
• BU options two different Terriers from Connecticut in graduate scholar Jonas Harper (Stamford) and senior Nevin Zink (Newtown). Harper netted 15 factors vs. Northeastern, whereas Zink had seven rebounds.
• Junior Miles Brewster made his eighth profession begin and dished out a personal-best six assists.
• The Terriers are actually 13-0 courting again to start out of the 2021-22 season when their bench outscores opponent and are additionally 16-2 when holding opponents beneath 45% capturing.  

SCOUTING UCONN

• The Huskies are receiving votes in each the AP and Coaches’ nationwide polls after going 23-10 final season and reaching the primary spherical of the NCAA match.
• UConn is led by 6-foot-9 ahead Adama Sanogo, the Big East Preseason Player of the Year, who tallied a career-high 30 factors in opposition to Auburn final season. He tallied 19 factors and 6 rebounds in simply 19 minutes of motion throughout an 85-54 win over Stonehill on Monday.
• The Huskies characteristic 4 transfers on their workforce, together with 6-foot-4 guard Nahiem Alleyne who averaged 9.6 ppg at Virginia Tech final season and 6-foot-5 guard Tristen Newton who averaged 17.7 ppg at East Carolina in 2021-22.
• 6-foot-5 guard Jordan Hawkins was named 2021-22 Big East All-Freshman final season after averaging 5.8 ppg.
• UConn contains a 7-foot-2 freshman Donovan Clingan, who posted 9 factors and 7 rebounds in simply 18 minutes in opposition to Stonehill.

SERIES HISTORY

• UConn owns a 44-12 benefit in an all-time sequence that dates again to 1930 however is just dealing with BU for the sixth time since a 1990 NCAA 1st Rd. matchup. Both packages have been members of the Yankee Conference throughout the mid-Nineteen Seventies.
• Coach Jones is 0-3 with the Terriers, final falling to the Huskies in 2017 (85-66) following a 51-49 defeat in 2016 and 77-60 loss in 2013.
• BU final beat UConn at dwelling in 1986 throughout Jim Calhoun’s first season.

UP NEXT

• BU will open a two-game homestand on Monday (Nov. 14) in opposition to Johnson & Wales at 7 p.m.
• It would be the first-ever assembly between the 2 packages.