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Alex Karaban scored 20 points and hit a clutch jumper with 1:01 to play to help No. 5 UConn outlast No. 15 Texas 81-71 on Monday in the championship game of the Empire Classic in New York.UConn (5-0)
The Huskies' 81-53 thumping of the fourth-ranked Golden Eagles should put fear in the rest of college basketball.
UConn is the No.1 team in the nation and the defending national champions, yet the Huskies went into Saturday's matchup with No. 4 Marquette coveting something the Golden Eagles won a year ago: a Big East championship. Donovan Clingan had 17 points and 10 rebounds to help the Huskies to an 81-53 rout of Marquette and control of the conference race. “We were just trying to prove who we are, and we're just trying to win,” Clingan said.
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Donovan Clingan missed five games in December and January with a foot injury and was in foul trouble in his last two, scoring in single digits both times. The player coach Dan Hurley affectionately calls “Cling Kong” shot 8 of 12 from the field in posting his first double-double this season and the fifth of his career. “He was tremendous,” Hurley said.