UConn Faces East Texas A&M as Heavy Favorites on Tuesday Night

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00:00Let's go to the Big East. Connecticut in action tonight. 37.5 point favorite is UConn. They've

00:08been dismantling teams as we have seen throughout non-conference action in the last two plus

00:14years. Still the favorites, Dan Hurley's Huskies to win the Big East at plus 135. John, including

00:21Marquette, if you were to look elsewhere around the league, who is UConn's best competition

00:25in the Big East?

00:27I see five teams right now at the top of the Big East that are an NCAA tournament contention.

00:32UConn, Creighton, Marquette are the returning commodities from last season. And now a healthy

00:37Xavier with Zach Fremantle and Jerome Hunter back under Sean Miller. Looks to me like a

00:42clear-cut NCAA tournament team. And St. John's under Rick Pitino with Qadari Richmond, Davon

00:48Smith and Simeon Wiltshire in the backcourt. Looks like an NCAA tournament team. This is

00:52a very, very big week for the Red Storm, who will play Baylor in Bahamar on Thursday,

00:58then either Tennessee or Virginia on Friday, followed up by a game against Georgia, potential

01:04bubble team out of the SEC on Sunday. So the Red Storm will know in the next six days a

01:08lot about where they stand moving forward in year two under Rick Pitino.