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- | STORRS, Conn. (AP) -- Marquette broke a couple of Connecticut' | ||
- | Ousman Barro had 17 points and 13 rebounds and Marquette used a 16-2 second-half run to beat the Huskies (No. 22 ESPN/USA Today, No. 24 AP) 73-69, snapping their 31-game home winning streak. | ||
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- | Jerel McNeal had 19 points and Dominic James added 17 for the Golden Eagles (14-4, 1-2 Big East), who lost their previous two games by an average of 13.5 points. | ||
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- | "This was a great get-better, stay-together game for us," Marquette coach Tom Crean said. "The losses were a great reawakening for our guys to get back to what we are. There weren' | ||
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- | The Golden Eagles were far from perfect on Wednesday, but they did look a lot more like the team that had been ranked all season until falling out of the Top 25 following the losses to Providence and Syracuse. | ||
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- | Marquette shot 39.3 percent for the game (24-for-61), | ||
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- | "That was part of the plan," Crean said of Marquette' | ||
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- | Doug Wiggins had 19 points and Jeff Adrien added 18 for the Huskies (12-3, 1-2), who lost consecutive games for the first time since February 2004. Connecticut lost 66-49 at LSU on Saturday and has dropped three of four since starting the season with 11 straight home wins. | ||
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- | Wiggins made two free throws with 10:37 to play to tie the game at 46. | ||
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- | Barro then hit a straightaway bank shot from 18 feet to start the Golden Eagles' | ||
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- | The Huskies went 10:02 in the second half without a field goal, missing 13 shots until Wiggins hit a 3-pointer with 3:24 left that ended Marquette' | ||
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- | McNeal made two free throws with 1:15 left for a 65-53 lead and Wiggins hit a 3-pointer just 12 seconds later to start the Huskies' | ||
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- | James was 5-for-18 from the field, including 1-for-5 from 3-point range. He was 6-for-23 overall and 1-for-15 on 3s in the two losses. | ||
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- | "Going 0-2, you know it's back against the wall, it's kind of an emergency," | ||
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- | Marquette led 32-28 at halftime and it was amazing that the Huskies were that close. Connecticut shot 8-for-29 from the field (27.6 percent) and committed 12 turnovers, and Marquette outscored them 20-8 in the paint. | ||
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- | Barro had seven points in the spurt, including a big tip-in of a missed free throw by McNeal that made it 57-48 with 6:33 to play. | ||
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- | "Barro is a good player who was dominating tonight," | ||
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- | The 6-foot-10 junior played all 20 minutes in the second half. | ||
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- | "We had to have him in there with the things he was doing," | ||
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- | Wiggins was 4-for-13 from the field and fellow freshman guard Jerome Dyson went 0-for-5. | ||
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