UConn wins battle of top players

This is going to be one of those snippet posts with stream of consciousness and interior headlines. There is a bevy of things to cover as we inch closer to another Big East weekend, and so a coherent column would be both ambitious and too narrow. Let’s start with a battle of the top two candidates for Big East Player of the Year and end with something closer to my heart.

Luke vs. A.J.: Neither of the leading candidates for Big East Player of the Year disappointed in Connecticut’s 84-78 win over Notre Dame in Storrs on Wednesday night. Luke Harangody made 13-of-24 field-goal attempts for 32 points a month after a 5-for-23 shooting performance in his last head-to-head battle with Hasheem Thabeet. Harangody also added 16 rebounds in a game that the Irish led at the half.

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