Highlights - #5 UConn MBB 72, DePaul 54

Slow start, more turnovers, but a win as AK scores 21 and Tarris Reed, Jr notches a double-double

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We begin with terras Reid first bucket for Yukon. They
were down three to nothing. They started off three for fourteen.
This gave Yukon their first basket. It was three to
two De Paul after this one from Reed. There's Demmer
in the left wing to our right, drives inside all
the way to the basket. He puts it up, missed it,
rebound it in by terras Raid on the offensive glass,

(00:20):
and the Huskies have their first duce of the ball game,
three to two to Paul two and a half minutes in.
And then De Paul was getting after Yukon, getting in
the passing lanes, turning them over at four steels early.
Here's one of them by Brandon Macklin. This is Malachi
between the rings to our right, starts to his left,
gisit to ride on the high posts. Another steal on

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the runout, Brandon Macklin lays it in for two. Yukon
has been burned a couple of times with cross court passes,
and so ten to seven was the lead for De Paul,
as Yukon was allowing them to shoot five of nine,
lot of layups and had a onder the turnovers in
the first half That was Macklin's second steal in the

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opening five minutes of the ballgame. Silas Demri we mentioned
it hadn't been scoring an awful lot, been averaging about
five a game over the last six games after averaging
twelve and a half in his first six. But he
was back on the beam, scoring when needed in this one.
And here is a long range three from him. How
let the Demri runs to the right side on the

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right sideline, front court right Demery for three, got it
and a triple. That's a big one. Yukon back within one,
fifteen to fourteen. That was at the nine to eleven
mark and Keaton nine to zero run for the Huskies.
Then Jaden Ross just made a beautiful drive, maybe one
of the shots of the game here to give you
kind of lead with four to twenty five to go

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in the first half, twenty four to twenty two on
the right wing. Ross try to drive it right all
the way to the basket of floater god by Ross.
What a shot. That was a driving hook shot by
Jaden Ross and Yukon up two two and Ross excellent shot.
He ended up with six points in the ball game.
Laden blocker, though at the buzzer got De Paul back

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within three with this one. This was a beauty. Hey
get it in and on a quick runout it's leaden blocker.
He blows all the way down the lane. He puts
a floater up and he feet the buzzer. What a
shot from about twelve feet on the left side of
the lane by laden blocker at ends the half as
the buzzer went off and Yukhon goes to the locker

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room with a three point lead, thirty three two thirty
and so a blocker's basket made it thirty three to thirty.
You Kin at halftime had gone twelve of thirty, three
of ten from three, Caravan had ten. Reid and Caravan
were carrying a day while Demery, Mullins and Ross were
shooting two for twelve. Caravan and Reid were eight for ten.

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So U Khan did get to the locker room with
a three point lead, and that was a positive in
this one. And that was important because you're on the
road and the other team has a lot of momentum.
To get into halftime with an advantage after being behind
like that is a real positive for them. Second half began,

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Malchi Smith had one of the shots of the day,
one of those floating layups that you get kind of
in the playground, but this one gave youkn an eight
point lead. Five minutes into the second Malachi front Court,
being hounded by Smith, drives by him into the paint
stopping gold Movie lays it down. Oh on a scoop
shot by Malachi Smith r Monico Ford Championship drive Courtonelcy

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of Monico Ford Glastonbury and Naanic shot like a champion
on any time at Monico four com he did that time.
You kind of extended the lead to twelve. Alex Caravan
with about seven minutes going by in the second half,
Caravan drives in, lost the ball, regains it, puts it
up an end. The ball deflicted by one of the

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defenders with the blue demons, and Caravan picked it up
and put it in. He's got seventeen. The game's high
scorer ends up with twenty one. Alex Carabman we just
spoke to on the postgame show. Then it was Ross
and you Conn in one of their offensive sequences that
they we find watching them. They get done several times
a game. This is a big one. Is Demriy found

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Ross wide open under the basket. Memory at the left wing,
Fire's right to Rye, but takes a hand off, starts
right a caravan being oh they got a download of
Ross and he rocks the rim for a dunk. Ukon
backdoored him. Beautiful, beautiful play. I started diming the game
presented by Diamon back community banking lives here, so Ross

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in the husse. He's led by fourteen. They extended at sixteen.
Another good drive, this one by Silas Demri as he
scored the last two of his thirteen points. Memory starts
to his left, gets a screen from Reid. Demery curls
around the screen into the paint, drives to the basket,
then silence on a strong move. Demoran double figures with
eleven and Yu cont sixty to forty four and De

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Paul hung in. They kept fighting, but they could not
get it into single digits. Toward the end of the
game and terrace Reid one of the shots of the day, Yukon,
with the shot clock running down to near zero, was
able to make one. Care Man backs away outside the arc,
wants to go download to Reid. He gets it. They
got no time left. You got to shoot it. It's
a feet await. Back to then terrace Terris Raid Banks

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it in to beat the buzzer. That was a beauty.
They needed it. U Khon led sixty four to fifty two.
They end up winning it seventy two to fifty four.