Huskies back at it today, and they need as many wins as they can get. A loss in Houston would be devastating.
When: 3 p.m.
Where: Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston
TV, radio: CBS Sports Network, WTIC-AM (1080)
Records: UConn 11-8, 4-3 AAC; Houston 8-12, 0-8
Series: UConn leads, 3-1.
Analysis
- Here is how Ed Daigneault sees this game going:
Worth noting
- Kelvin Sampson is in his first season as Houston coach. The former Oklahoma and Indiana coach had been banging around the NBA while serving a show-cause penalty for NCAA infractions while at Indiana.
- Houston is coming off a 59-48 victory against Rice that snapped an eight-game losing streak. All eight of those defeats were AAC games.
- UConn is 2-3 in road games this year and has lost three straight on the road.
- Houston leads the league in 3-pointers made per game and is 25th nationally.
- UConn guard Ryan Boatright is the only Husky averaging double figures in scoring (12.2) in road games.
- The Huskies average just 59.2 points on the road.
- Sampson is 2-1 all-time against the Huskies, with both wins coming when he was at Oklahoma and the lone loss coming at Indiana in 2007.
- Houston is in the midst of a four-game homestand, the last three of those games coming within the conference.
- UConn has not and will not have a four-game homestand this year and won’t play more than two straight league games at home.
