Takeaways from UConn’s domination of CCSU

Ian Bethune/The UConn Blog UConn men’s basketball showed out in its first contest of the 2021-22 season, nearly reaching the 100-point plateau and doubling CCSU’s score in a 99-48 victory over the Blue Devils at Gampel Pavilion. While CCSU is a sub-350 KenPom team and a strong victory is an expected result, the home side still impressed, even beating the KenPom projection going in.

Intensity from jump

Shawn McGrath: UConn played this same game last season in the same venue to open last year’s campaign. The necessary caveats are that it was a unique offseason and there was no crowd to bring the energy, but the Huskies allowed a bad CCSU team to put up 75 points. While it ended up being a…