No. 19 Huskies host no. 12 St. John’s at the Gamel

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Storrs – No. 19 Uconn men’s basketball team (16-6, 8-3 Big East) is back in action for a huge home slope on Friday night in the world’s basketball capital when hosting league-leading No. 12 St. John’s (20-3, 11-1 Big East) at the Gampel Pavilion. Friday night Spotlight will be released at Fox at. 20 with Gus Johnson and Jim Jackson on the call.

At the break, Uconn will honor the program Great Ben Gordon with induction in Huskies of Honor. Friday’s competition will also include Uconn that goes along with Big East to honor Black Femmere And it’s a $ 2 Miller Lite Night while the supplies last. Please drink responsibly.

Uconn and St. John’s will revive a rivalry dating back to 1951-one of the red storm has a narrow 37-34 all-time lead in. Since Uconn returned to the big east ahead of the 2020-21 season, they have gone 6- 2 against the red storm, including all three meetings last season. Friday night will be the first ranked match-up in the series since 2000 and the first one at the Gampel Pavilion since 1992.

Huskies have gone 3-0 against ranked opponents this season including a top-10 win in their last excursion on Marquette on Saturday. Solo ball Had a career day against the Golden Eagles and knocked seven 3-Pointers into a 25-point, 11-bound double-double. Ball is tied to the team height this season with 15.0 points per year. Battle and has shot 45.6 percent from 3-point range-good for the sixth best in the nation. Alex Karaban joins him on top of the score area with 15.0 points per day. Battle and adds 5.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.8 blocked shots. Karaban Was named for the Midseason Wooden Award monitoring list last month and to the Karl Malone Award Top 10 list this week.

Hassan Diarra is number two in Big East and 11Th National in assists per Fight you need to use 6.4 per. Competition to trigger Uconn’s top-10 offense. Huskies are among the national leaders in field target percentage, effective field target percentage, helps per year. Fight, Help/Turnover Percentage and Free Casting Percentage. Uconn has been without a beginner star Liam McNeeley In the last eight games, but he is expected to return on Friday. McNeeley Average 13.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists per Match.

St. John’s is out of its best start to over 20 years with a 20-3 record and an 11-1 brand in the Big East game. RJ Luis Jr. leads the red storm with 17.4 points per Match, while Zuby Ejiofor (14.3 PPG, 8.3 RPG) and Kadary Richmond (12.1 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 4.9 APG) also scores in double figures. The red storm is among the league leaders in the field percentage of field target percentage, blocked shots, revenue margin and rebounding margin and has the No. 4 defense in the nation per year. Kenpom defensive efficiency.

After Friday night’s primetime showdown, Huskies are remembered to Omaha to meet Creighton on Tuesday 11th February.