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Just when it looked like we were going to spend the entire week before Christmas watching mostly uninteresting matchups and predictable results, Tuesday delivered one upset after another. Virginia lost at Miami. Mississippi State lost to Drake. Duke lost at Wake Forest. Marquette lost at Providence. All four of those losing teams were higher-ranked favorites in their games. Each of them were defeated in ways that cost them in the CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings.
Also: UConn got pushed by Georgetown.
Dan Hurley’s Huskies started the season 12-0 with 12 double-digit victories, and closed Tuesday as 23-point favorites against a Georgetown team that’s 5-8 and ranked 166th at KenPom.com. This should not have been stressful. Regardless, the Hoyas actually led 58-51 with a little more than 12 minutes remaining before UConn closed on a 33-15 run to win 84-73. So, yeah, the Huskies are still undefeated with nothing but double-digit wins — but the latest victory came with challenges, which Hurley suggested afterward was probably a long-term good thing for his program.
“It was good to be in some huddles where there was a little soul-searching and some character,” Hurley said. “Some reach-down-deep stuff.”
UConn remains No. 2 in Wednesday morning’s updated Top 25 And 1. The Huskies’ next game isn’t until next Wednesday when they’ll host a Villanova team that’s 4-0 since five-star freshman Cam Whitmore returned from off-season thumb surgery that resulted in him missing the Wildcats’ first seven games, five of which were losses. In other words, Villanova is 2-5 without Whitmore in the lineup, undefeated when he’s available. The Wildcats are…
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