Highlights - UConn MBB 77, Marquette 69

The Huskies lead wire to wire in a gut check with at Fiserv Forum. Mike Crispino has the highlights

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bag Adviser form a scintillating win for the Huskies seventy
seven to sixty nine. They led all the way, tremendous start,
keyed by Jalen Stewart, who knocked in three threes to
give Yukon a fourteen to four early lead. Marquette was
just unable to knock anything down, went three for sixteen
to start the game and was terrible on the free

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throw line as well, and that allowed you kind of
get off to a big lead and they ended up
holding on to win it by final of seventy seven
to sixty nine. Let's go through the highlights and we
begin with Jalen Stewart right away. Jay stew was hot
from distance tire to the front court right, Paul unextended
on the left sideline right in front of Shaka Smart

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kicks in the far corner. Stewart again and stue Hee's
got three of them three triples by Stuarts and u
Khon a fourteen to four advantage and they opening three
and a half minutes. Stuart with those three threes ended
up with nine points and then Terras Reid from solo
ball and Yukon had another ten point lead with just

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under twelve minutes to go. In the first Jayden on
a runout front court Rights pulls up on the left
side line. Mitchell tries to steal it from him. Ross
in the back door cuts a ball, Ball, hands the
raid and raid Ladson that left handed nice feed by
solo ball nineteen to nine. Yukon and the Huskies had

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their second ten point lead to the ball game. They
extended it to fifteen and Jaden Ross with a tough
shot in the lane. Samson Johnson nowhere to go, Fires
had left to Ross Ross dribble penetration faseline left now
he's in the paint, fadeaway Ross cut Jayden Ross with
a fade away from ten straight on Yukon twenty eight

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to thirteen, and Jade with a couple of assists in
that bucket and another steal as well. Excellent defense. In
twenty seven plus minutes on the floors, Yukon went ten
of their first thirteen, while Marquette was four of seventeen
from the field and five of fourteen the free throw line.
Thirteen minutes into this game, terras Reid then with a
power move to give you Gone an eighteen point lead

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with three and a half to go in the first
ball crossed the timelineer I post hand off the red
one dribble raid and off Ross. Ross starts to his rights.
He holds outside the arc card by toppling to go along,
load to read read double teamed. He's in trouble. They
put it up at him and what a power move
by t Rex hal baby thirty eight to twenty You

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come and Ucon's lead was twenty two with two and
a half minutes left in the first half, but Marquette
won on a nine o run in the final couple
of minutes of that first half to get back within
thirteen thanks to Chase Ross, Chase Ross into the front
courch step back three by Ross, god and Marquette. That's

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a triple with two seconds left, Baul will get a
shot off and won't go in. So after all, Yukon
leaves by thirteen and a half, but Mark had a
nine oh run, has gotten some emotion and gotten back
into this thing, so the Huskies are up thirteen at
halftime again. They came out though, and faced a hot

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Marquette team of six oh run by Marquette got them
within forty four to thirty five and that's when Hassan
Diara hit a nice runner in the lane, jar to
the front course into the paint, a little pull up
by has God and has Sandara from about ten feet
away straight ahead. You count forty nine thirty five. Yeah,

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has had five points on the night, four rebound, seven assists,
but also turned it over four times. You cut twenty
five turnovers and still won the ball game. That is
absolutely amazing. Alex Caravan then made one of the shots
of the day. I thought one of the great drives
of the day. With seven minutes going by in the
second half, Ross puts it on the floor and goes

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right to the basket eight block by Samson. Johnson, there
comes solo ball. The ball skips it in the far
corner to Caravan. Caravan drible penetration all the way to
the basket try Land and and he did what a shot.
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current offers. The Caravan's a lefty reverse gave you gun
a fifty six to forty one lead with the thirteen
minutes going the ballgame. Cam Jones, who is their best player,
one of the best in the Big East for sure.
Ended up with twenty two points nine of twenty and
this was one of his best. Jones starts with left
picked up by Caravan on a switch. He's on the
left sideline, right hand dribble into the paint. Nowhere to

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go float or could tough shot by Cam Jones and
it's a sixty two to fifty three game. Where's Diarra
done again? Timeline and dr will call the time out? Yeah,
third time that. De Marquet got within nine in the
second half with seven forty five to go, But Solo Ball,

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what a night for him? Seven threes, I mean Solo
in his last couple of games, had gone eight of
twenty six over the last three games from three point range,
and tonight seven of nine. Here's one of the big
ones with four minutes to go. Ross at the baseline,
can't get a shot off back to ball for three

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God oh, Ball knocks down a triple right in front
of the Yukon bench. What a big time shot by Solo.
He's got twenty. He saves his biggest shots for when
Marquette gets the closest. He really did and then it
still wasn't over. Marquette was in single digits away in
terms of the deficit when Solo again got a hold

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of one just under a minute ago. Dr on the
left wing, He's double back to Solo for three. Got
it another big one. He rang one ups from the
New York corner. Yukon seventy five sixty six. Paul has
twenty three and the Huskies went on to win a
seventy seven to sixty nine