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No. 6 UConn Hosts Georgetown On Saturday Night
2/13/2026 5:45:00 PM | Men's Basketball
STORRS – The No. 6 UConn men's basketball team (23-2, 13-1 BIG EAST) returns to action on Saturday night to host Georgetown (13-11, 5-8 BIG EAST) for a Valentine's Day nightcap. Tip-off between the Huskies and Hoyas is set for 8 p.m. and will air on Peacock and NBCSN with John Fanta and Donny Marshall on the call.
At halftime of Saturday night's contest, UConn will induct program legend Hasheem Thabeet into the Huskies of Honor. Thabeet was a two-time National Defensive Player of the Year and the 2009 BIG EAST Player of the Year. The induction will be shown IN FULL on Peacock.
The Huskies are coming off a road win at Butler on Wednesday, bouncing back after their first setback in more than two months. The Hoyas saw a four-game winning streak of their own snapped in their last outing which came against Villanova on Saturday. UConn is 41-36 all-time against Georgetown in a series dating back to 1958 and has won 11-straight since 2020-21, the second-longest winning streak for either side in the history of the series. UConn is going for its sixth-straight regular season sweep of GU after topping the Hoyas in Washington on Jan. 17. In that 64-62 triumph, Tarris Reed Jr. scored 15 points with 11 rebounds, three blocks and three assists and Silas Demary Jr. scored 12 with five assists and three steals.
In UConn's last outing on Wednesday at Butler, an 80-70 win, Solo Ball finished two shy of a career-high and scored 24 points while hitting a season-high six 3-pointers. The Huskies got double-doubles and stat sheet-stuffing performances from both Tarris Reed Jr. (16p-10r-7a-3b) and Silas Demary Jr. (11p-10a-3s) in the win. Playing in his home state for the first time as a collegian, Braylon Mullins scored 15 points with five rebounds and two blocks in front of a large crowd of family and friends in the state where he won 'Mr. Basketball' as a high school senior.
Ball tops the Huskies with 14.5 points per game and is among the league leaders with 2.0 made 3-pointers per game. Reed Jr. adds 14.1 points and team-highs of 7.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game while ranking first in the BIG EAST and 12th nationally with a 63.7 field goal percentage. Alex Karaban, who tied the UConn records for both starts (135) and total wins (115) on Wednesday in Indianapolis, does it all for Connecticut with 13.2 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game on a 47.8 / 40.9 / 81.8 shooting line.
Demary Jr. leads the BIG EAST with 6.3 assists per game and is scoring 11.2 points on 48.9 percent shooting from the floor and a 47.4 percent mark from three. Mullins is the fifth Husky regular averaging double-figures and chips in 11.9 points per game, shooting 40.2 percent from three in BIG EAST play which is second among qualified shooters. UConn boasts a top-10 defense nationally per major metrics and leads the BIG EAST in field goal percentage, 3-point field goal percentage, scoring margin and rebound margin.
Georgetown visits Storrs with a 13-11 record on the year and a 5-8 mark in BIG EAST play, winners of four of its last five after a six-game skid. KJ Lewis leads the Hoyas with 15.1 points per game, followed by Malik Mack with 14.5 points and a team-high 4.3 assists. Vincent Iwuchukwu is the third Hoya in double-figures with 11.4 points per game and a team-high 6.0 rebounds per game.
The Huskies are back at Gampel following Saturday night when they host Creighton on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
