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Postgame Notes - No. 9 Connecticut 81, No. 16 DePaul 67

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.