{"id":77452,"date":"2025-12-05T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77452\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:18:19","slug":"no-5-uconn-takes-on-east-texas-am-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77452\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 5 UConn takes on East Texas A&#038;M tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; Fresh off their first victory over Kansas, the UConn men\u2019s basketball team is back home to take on East Texas A&amp;M on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tip off from Gampel Pavilion is set for 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fans can watch the game on Peacock and NBCSN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Huskies and the Lions are facing off for the second straight season. Connecticut won last season\u2019s meeting 81-46.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2025\/12\/02\/uconn-has-date-with-kansas-tonight\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2025\/12\/02\/uconn-has-date-with-kansas-tonight\/\">UConn\u2019s 61-56 win over No. 21 Kansas<\/a> on Tuesday was the program\u2019s first against the fellow blue blood. The victory snapped the Jayhawks\u2019 23-game home non-conference win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Solo Ball and Braylon Mullins put up 17 points a piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Huskies were down 4 at the half, but took the lead halfway through the second half thanks to 7 straight points from Alex Karaban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following East Texas A&amp;M, UConn\u2019s next opponent is No. 15 Florida at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday as part of the Jimmy V Classic. Tip off is slated for 9 p.m. on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, CT (WFSB) &#8211; Fresh off their first victory over Kansas, the UConn men\u2019s basketball team is back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,21893,34725,38114,20583,38113,38115,1771,29183,154,38116,27,29,28,3124,38106,38104,38105,38110,38108,38109,38107,35858,35864,38112,38111],"class_list":["post-77452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-news","tag-connecticut-sports","tag-ct-news","tag-ct-sports","tag-gampel-pavilion","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-sports","tag-storrs","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-basketball-streaming","tag-uconn-east-texas","tag-uconn-east-texas-am","tag-uconn-east-texas-am-channel","tag-uconn-east-texas-am-streaming","tag-uconn-east-texas-channel","tag-uconn-east-texas-streaming","tag-uconn-mens-basketball","tag-uconn-streaming","tag-university-of-connecticut","tag-what-time-is-the-uconn-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}