The UConn men’s basketball team won against the Furman Paladins 82-71 on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n
Tarris Reed Jr. finished with 31 points and 27 rebounds, a stat line not seen at the NCAA Tournament in 60 years.<\/p>\n
Reed made 12 of 15 shots with 11 offensive rebounds and 16 defensive.<\/p>\n
The Huskies rebounded 44-32 in the second half, as Alex Karaban scored 22 points.<\/p>\n
Tom House scored 21 points, cutting the lead to 56-50, for the Paladins.<\/p>\n
Alex Wilkins hit a three to make it 69-64 and the Paladins, 22-13, stayed within five with 5:49 left.<\/p>\n
Furman shot 48% overall from the floor in the half and had some big help in making this one a game from UConn’s dreadful 1-of-14 shooting from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Reed dominated shooting five for 25 on three-pointers.<\/p>\n
UConn advances to face the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball in the second round Sunday.<\/p>\n
AP wire services contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UConn men’s basketball team won against the Furman Paladins 82-71 on Friday night in the first round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4567,69725,98,100,99,3361,11496,63551,9,24,63,69724,319,9125,16522,66716,69723],"class_list":["post-170562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-coach","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-march-madness","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sporting-events","tag-sports","tag-sports-broadcasting","tag-sports-tournament","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}