No. 13 Connecticut will host

the Georgetown Hoyas on Wednesday.
Connecticut rarely loses in Storrs, going 12-2 at home this season.
The 13th-ranked Huskies, though, host red-hot ninth-ranked Georgetown Wednesday at 4 p.m. PT in a Big East Conference matchup.
Georgetown has won eight straight Big East games, a remarkable achievement for being in the toughest conference in the country. This is the Hoyas’ longest Big East victory streak since they won 11 in a row in 2006-07.
The Hoyas are 16-6 ATS in their last 22 games following a straight-up victory. They are 6-2 ATS during their past eight games.
Senior guard Austin Freeman has averaged better than 20 points per game during Georgetown’s win streak. Freeman, the Big East preseason player of the year, sprained an ankle during the Hoyas’ last game this past Sunday.
Georgetown beat Marquette in that matchup, 69-60, as 5 ½-point home favorites. It was Marquette’s largest margin of defeat this season. The combined 129 points went ‘under’ the 144 ½-point total. It was the fifth time in their last six games that the Hoyas have gone ‘under’ the total.
Freeman managed to finish the game scoring 17 points despite a heavily taped ankle. Chris Wright had 20 points for Georgetown while Hollis Thompson added a career-high 13 rebounds. Hoyas coach John Thompson III believes Freeman should be able to play against Connecticut, although Freeman is unlikely to be 100 percent.
The Hoyas made just seven of 27 shots from 3-point range versus Marquette. Still, Georgetown is 13-0 when making at least six 3-pointers. The Hoyas are 16-0 when hitting 33 percent or better from beyond the arc.
The 20-5 Hoyas have now posted at least 20 victories in five of the past seven seasons under Thompson. They are 9-4 in the Big East.
Connecticut holds foes to 32.9 percent from 3-point range. The Huskies halted a two-game home losing skid by defeating Providence, 75-57, as 10-point home favorites this past Sunday. The combined 132 points went ‘under’ the 151-point total. It was the first time Connecticut covered the spread in its last five games. The ‘under’ has cashed in eight of the Huskies’ past 10 games.
The Huskies received a surprising 25 points from Jamal Coombs-McDaniel in their win against the Friars. Coombs-McDaniel, averaging less than five points per game, hit 10-of-17 field goals and pulled down a career-high eight rebounds to go with his highest scoring game ever.
Kemba Walker ended his shooting slump adding 22 points for Connecticut making seven of 10 shots from the field. Walker, the No. 2 scorer in the Big East behind Marshon Brooks of Providence, was shooting just 29.2 percent from the floor in his previous five games averaging 15.2 points during that span. It was just the second time in his last 16 games that Walker hit more than half his shots from the floor.
Walker ranks seventh in the nation in scoring averaging 22.8 points per game, but had failed to break the 20-point barrier in five of his last seven games.
Brooks scored 25 points against Connecticut, but the Huskies held him to seven-of-22 from the floor, including one-of-eight from beyond the arc.
The Huskies, 19-5 and 7-5 in the Big East, made 46.8 percent of their shots from the floor versus the Friars. Only once in their previous four games had the Huskies connected on more than 40 percent of their field goals. Connecticut rated 14th of the 16 Big East teams in shooting percentage prior to beating Providence. Connecticut’s previous four opponents all played zone. Providence, though, opened with a man-to-man defense and stuck with it until falling far behind.
Connecticut is 16-1 when shooting at least 38 percent from the field. Georgetown is holding opponents to 41.1 percent from the field.