No. 17 UConn men’s basketball struggled all night against the Creighton Blue Jays, falling 59-55.
The Huskies’ (15-5 overall and 6-3 in the Big East) five-game winning streak ended due to an anemic 5-of-21 shooting night from three and sloppy late-game execution. Isaiah Whaley paced UConn with a career-high 20 points while RJ Cole and Adama Sanogo added 13 and eight, respectively.
It was the second straight out-of-sync effort from the Huskies, and this time they paid for it against a better team. Despite erasing a double-digit deficit in the second half, UConn fumbled away chance after chance to escape with a win and is now 0-5 in games decided by four points or less this year.