Postgame Notes - No. 9 Connecticut 81, No. 16 DePaul 67
Records: Connecticut (19-12); DePaul (12-19)

• Connecticut advances to face No. 8-seeded West Virginia in Wednesday’s BIG EAST Championship second
• round. The Huskies defeated the Mountaineers 67-53 Jan. 9 in the only regular-season meeting between the
• teams.
• Connecticut has won 12 consecutive postseason games.
• The Huskies have won six straight games in the BIG EAST Championship, good for the fourth-longest winning
• streak in tournament history.
• The No. 9 seed improved to 3-1 against the No. 16 seed in BIG EAST Championship play.
• Connecticut’s Jeremy Lamb has scored in double figures in all six of his BIG EAST tournament games. He had
• 25 points against DePaul.
• Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun earned his 34th career victory in the BIG EAST Championship, passing John
• Thompson of Georgetown for sole possession of second place on the all-time chart.
• DePaul is now 1-3 as the No. 16 seed in the BIG EAST Championship.
• DePaul’s Cleveland Melvin scored 19 points in his first BIG EAST Championship appearances. Melvin missed
• last year’s tournament due to injury.