UConn men’s basketball is in the win column to start the year, earning an 85-54 victory over the Stonehill Skyhawks. Ranked No. 350 by KenPom pregame and playing in their first Division I game, the Huskies were expected to dominate physically and they did, with a sizable rebounding margin and impacts by nearly everyone on the defensive end.
While it is tough to learn a lot from a game with such a large talent disparity, our first look at the 2022-23 Huskies gave us some bits of knowledge.
Donavan Clingan, Alex Karaban will be valuable pieces
Shawn McGrath: Moving from the CIAC to the Big East was going to be a big transition and it was not clear how Clingan, the 7-foot-2 freshman, would handle the transition.