No. 4 UConn Beats Ohio State 84-68 After Second-Half Run

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The No. 4 UConn men’s basketball team used a 24-6 second-half run to pull away from Ohio State for an 84-68 victory on Friday night at a sold-out PeoplesBank Arena.

Connecticut (4-0) trailed by two points with five minutes elapsed in the second half before taking control over eight minutes of game time. Braylon Mullins led all scorers with 22 points, hitting five 3-pointers, while Na’jai Hines set a new career-high with 20 points on 7-of-8 shooting.

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Colben Landrew added 12 points in his first career start, and Silas Demary Jr. finished with nine assists and zero turnovers. The Huskies shot a blistering 61.2 percent from the field, marking their first 60-percent effort against a high-major non-conference foe in over a decade.

Ohio State (2-2) shot 58.3 percent in the first half and closed the opening stanza with a 13-1 run to pull within 42-40 at the break. The Buckeyes took their first lead of the day early in the second half before the Huskies mounted their decisive surge.

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The win brought UConn’s all-time record against Ohio State to 4-4 in a series dating back to 1983. The teams last met in 2016.

Demary Jr. has recorded 25 assists and just two turnovers through the first four games of the season. He is the first Husky with 25 or more assists and two or fewer turnovers in a four-game span in the Elias stats era dating back to 1996.