UConn Men’s Basketball: Silas Demary Jr. Continues to Make History in Early Season

The No. 4 UConn Huskies men’s basketball team defeated the visiting Ohio State Buckeyes 84-68 on Friday night at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford.

With the win, the Huskies are 4-0 on the young season. The loss drops Ohio State to 2-2.

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Our own Jami Leabow covered the game as a whole here, but let’s zoom in on the performance of senior guard Silas Demary Jr., who continues to impress through four games.

The former Georgia transfer played only 24 minutes because of early foul trouble, but he still found a way to be impactful for head coach Dan Hurley. He had 10 points and nine assists in those limited minutes. He also had no turnovers and two steals. As noted by Katie Sharp, Demary is the only Huskies player in the last 20 seasons to have 25 assists or more and two turnovers or less in the first four games of the season.

That’s right. Not Kemba Walker. Not Shabazz Napier. Not anyone, but Demary.

And what’s made this start even more impressive is the competition it’s come against. While wins against Wagner and Gardner-Webb were expected, Demary has done this against No. 16 Michigan and Ohio State, two power conference opponents.

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The Huskies will need Demary to keep performing well because they face an absolutely brutal non-conference schedule, and they’ll have to face it now without sharpshooter Nik Khamenia, who is out for at least the next 6-8 weeks because of a left foot injury.

UConn still has to play Arizona (11/18), Duke (11/25), Illinois (12/4), Kansas (12/12) and Virginia (12/20).

Conference play begins on Dec. 23.

UConn Huskies guard Silas Demary Jr. (5) drives the ball against the Wagner Seahawks in the first half at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion. David Butler II-Imagn Images

Demary, a North Carolina native, was on the SEC’s All-Freshman team in 2023-24 at Georgia and then he averaged 13.5 ppg there as a sophomore. He helped UConn to the national championship last season, averaging 10.1 ppg and a Big East-best 5.9 steals per night.

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