UConn made sure Stonehill’s Division I debut was memorable — for all the wrong reasons.

The Huskies held Stonehill to 16-of-45 shooting (35.6 percent) and earned an 85-54 victory Monday night in Hartford, Conn., in the season opener for both teams.

UConn’s Adama Sanogo, the Big East preseason player of the year, led all scorers with 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting and grabbed six rebounds in 19 minutes. Sanogo averaged 14.8 points and 8.8 rebounds last season, when the Huskies went 23-10 record and made their second trip to the NCAA tournament in as many years.

The Huskies received 13 points from Alex Karaban and 11 from Hassan Diarra. Donova Clingan had a team-high seven rebounds.

UConn won by a comfortable margin despite struggling from behind the 3-point arc. The Huskies made only 5 of 24 on treys, but they had a 44-24 edge in rebounds.

The Skyhawks moved from Division II to Division I in the offseason, when they joined the Northeast Conference. Stonehill went 15-12 during the 2021-22 season, and returned five of its top six scorers.

Andrew Sims, who led Stonehill with 15.2 points last season, and Isaiah Burnett each tossed in a team-high 12 points. Burnett added six rebounds for the Skyhawks, who never led.

Stonehill committed 12 turnovers in the first half and trailed 38-19 at the break. The Skyhawks missed 10 of their first 11 shots and were down 28-9 with 4:44 remaining in the half.

UConn outrebounded Stonehill 23-13 in the first half and scored 14 points off turnovers. The Huskies used 13 players, nine of whom scored.

The Huskies’ Andre Jackson Jr. missed the game with a fractured right pinky finger.

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The Xavier Musketeers closed the first half on a 31-5 run to take command and never looked back in a 96-73 rout over the visiting Morgan State Bears Monday night in Cincinnati.

Xavier, coming off its second NIT championship in March, has won its last 33 season openers, including a perfect 23-0 home mark at Cintas Center.

The victory was the first for Sean Miller, who began his second stint with Xavier after spending five seasons at the helm from 2004-09, leading them to the NCAA tournament in his last four seasons before leaving for the University of Arizona.

Miller received an ovation after Xavier’s starters were introduced and received a “Miller Time” chant from the crowd at the final buzzer.

Souley Boum, a graduate transfer from UTEP, connected on 4-of-6 from 3-point range and led Xavier with 23 points. Jack Nunge added 16 while Colby Jones scored nine of his 15 points from the free throw line.

Morgan State was led by graduate student David McCullough, who scored 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting. Isaiah Burke also had 16 off the bench while Kamron Hobbs added 14 for the Bears, who were out rebounded, 47-29 and outscored 52-28 in the paint.

The Musketeers were sloppy to open the game, committing five turnovers in the first four minutes and 13 for the first half. Morgan State committed 12.

Jones, Xavier’s preseason All-Big East first team point guard, was aggressive getting to the basket early, converting 9-of-10 free throws as Xavier built an early 17-13 lead. But Morgan State went on an 8-2 run, taking their last lead on a Hobbs three with 10:24 left in the half.

Xavier responded with the next nine points to take the lead for good.

Fan favorite Adam Kunkel, a senior, entered the game to a standing ovation and made an immediate impact with a steal and drove the length of the court for a reverse layup.

That was followed by back-to-back 3-pointers by graduate student Boum as the Musketeers built their lead to 15, 38-23, with 3:52 left in the first half.

Xavier outrebounded Morgan State, 25-12, and outscored the Bears, 20-12, in fast break points to take a 50-26 halftime lead.

Xavier built the lead up to as many as 31 midway through the second half before an 8-0 Morgan State run. With 8:42 left, Miller subbed his Xavier starters back into the game for the next three minutes to quell any further Morgan State run.

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Isaiah Wong and Nijel Pack each scored a team-high 16 points as the host Miami Hurricanes defeated the Lafayette Leopards 67-54 in the season opener for both teams Monday night.

Miami — who made the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight last season — also got a game-high 15 rebounds and 11 points from Norchad Omier.

Pack (Kansas State) and Omier (Arkansas State) are transfers who made their Miami debuts.

The Canes outrebounded Lafayette 46-34.

Lafayette, a 23 1/2-point underdog, led by as many as four points in a surprisingly strong first-half performance. CJ Fulton led the Leopards with a game-high 17 points, making 5-of-7 on 3-pointers.

Kyle Jenkins had 10 points, and teammate Justin Vander Baan added nine points for Lafayette.

The game marked the Leopards coaching debut of Mike Jordan. He succeeds Fran O’Hanlon, who had coached Lafayette the previous 27 seasons.

Lafayette fell to 1-5 against Miami. The only Leopards win in the series was a 73-57 decision on Jan. 14, 1991.

Prior to the game, the Canes announced that they would be without four-star freshman forward Danilo Jovanovich due to an injury to his left ankle.

The first half featured eight lead changes and two tie scores before Lafayette emerged with a 30-28 lead at the break.

Wong led all first-half scorers with eight points, but Miami shot 29.4 percent from the floor and 1-of-6 on free throws (16.7 percent).

Lafayette got outrebounded 25-18 in the first half, but the Leopards shot a relatively hot 44.0 percent from the floor.

Miami started the second half with a 10-0 run that included a dunk and a 3-pointer by Wong.

But Lafayette came back with an 8-0 run, tying the score 43-43 on a Fulton 3-pointer with 11:10 left.

Miami rallied again with a 9-0 run, taking a 52-43 lead with 6:49 left. Lafayette’s Josh Rivera missed three straight free throws during that stretch.

The Canes never trailed again.

–Field Level Media

Transfer Lance Terry scored 16 points to lead four double-digit scorers as Georgia Tech beat Division II Clayton State, 93-63, on Monday night.

Clayton State pushed Georgia Tech for the first half and the game was tied at 34-all at halftime.

Yellow Jackets center Rodney Howard added his fourth-career double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds.

Brian Coffey II led the Lakers with 17 points in a balanced scoring effort. He was 8 of 19 from the field but only 1 of 6 from 3-point range and had five turnovers.

Clayton State took a brief two-point lead in the second half before Georgia Tech pushed its lead to as much as 37 with a 15-1 run, forcing nine consecutive Lakers misses.

Fourteen of Terry’s points came in the second half, including a stretch with four 3-pointers in a span of one minute, 52 seconds.

Chris Chambers keyed Clayton State with eight points in the first half. The Lakers shot 40 percent from the field while holding Georgia Tech to 36 percent and forcing six Yellow Jacket turnovers.

Clayton State, which can count the game as an exhibition on its Division II ledger, played without all-conference center Jalen Shaw. Shaw was courtside at McCamish Pavilion in a walking boot.

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Mike Sharavjamts scored 14 points and DaRon Holmes II and R.J. Blakney added 13 apiece as No. 24 Dayton cast visiting Lindenwood out to arm’s length in the first half and went on to a 73-46 win on Monday in the season opener for both teams.

Dayton, the preseason choice to win the Atlantic 10 this season after consecutive years of settling for NIT bids, led by 17 in the first half but let the Lions hang around well into the second before pulling away.

Lindenwood, which trailed by 14 at halftime, scored the first five points of the second half to get the deficit into single digits.

Chris Childs, who led the Lions with 15 points while shooting just 6 of 18 from the field, scored the final three in that run. However, Lindenwood hit only one of its next 15 shots as Dayton went up by 22 with 7:09 left on a 3-pointer from Zimi Nwokeji.

The lead twice reached 34 in the final four minutes.

Lindenwood, which struggled to find room inside and was even colder from long range, shot only 32.7 percent from the floor and 20 percent (4-for-20) from long range.

Kobe Elvis finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and five assists, Mustapha Amzil added 10 points and Toumani Camara grabbed 11 rebounds for Dayton, which shot 47.1 percent from the floor, including 26.3 percent (5-for-19) on 3-pointers.

Kevin Caldwell Jr. netted eight points for the overmatched Lions, who are beginning their first season in Division I after more than a decade in Division II.

Lindenwood, which is in St. Charles, Mo., is competing in the Ohio Valley Conference and will be a full Division I member, including eligibility for the NCAA Tournament, in 2026.

The Flyers made their first five shots, including 3-pointers by Sharavjamts and Blakney, on their way to an 12-5 lead. Later eight- and six-point runs helped Dayton to a 35-21 lead at halftime.

Elvis posted 10 points in the first half and Holmes added nine, and Dayton shot 48 percent in the half while twice leading by 17.

Lindenwood made three of its first five shots, but then missed 11 of 12. The Lions shot only 32.1 percent in the first half, and each team made only two 3-pointers.

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Tyreke Key scored 17 points to lead No. 11 Tennessee to its 18th straight home victory, a 75-43 season-opening rout of Tennessee Tech on Monday night in Knoxville, Tenn.

Zakai Zeigler had 12 points and five assists for the Southeastern Conference Volunteers (1-0), who never trailed.

Tennessee sank 17 of 36 (47.2 percent) second-half shots after shooting 31 percent (9-for-29) during the first 20 minutes. Seven different Tennessee players sank at least one 3-pointer in the second half, when the Vols were 10 of 23 (43.5 percent) from long distance.

Santiago Vescovi added nine points, eight rebounds and five assists for Tennessee. Josiah-Jordan James, who did not play in the Vols’ two exhibition games following an offseason knee procedure, contributed eight points and four rebounds in 18 minutes.

Junior-college transfer Brett Thompson had 15 points and six rebounds for the Golden Eagles (0-1) of the Ohio Valley Conference. Tennessee Tech was outscored 22-2 in second-chance points.

Tennessee used a 13-6 run during the first 4:05 of the second half to build a 40-22 cushion. Key sank two 3-pointers and Vescovi added another to fuel the spurt.

The Vols never led by fewer than 17 points during the final 15 minutes.

Tech committed 22 turnovers, leading to 28 points, and only forced 15 from Tennessee.

Key scored 11 first-half points to help Tennessee build a 27-16 lead despite the Volunteers sinking just 4 of 21 (19 percent) shots from 3-point range. The Vols ended the first half hitting one of their final 10 field-goal attempts, all from behind the arc.

The Golden Eagles also shot poorly during the first half, 4 of 22 overall and 1 of 9 from long distance.

Tech registered just one field goal during the first 15:46. Thompson sank a layup 8:39 into the game.

Tennessee notched its 11th straight win in the series to improve to 27-1 overall against its in-state rival. The Vols’ only loss came in 1996.

–Field Level Media

Michigan transfer Frankie Collins produced a career-high 21 points, including a 3-pointer in a late rally, as Arizona State earned a season-opening, 62-59 win over Tarleton State on Monday in Tempe, Ariz.

The Sun Devils outscored Tarleton State 12-2 in the last 3:06 of the game.

The Texans took a 57-50 lead, their largest of the second half, on a Lue Williams 3-pointer with 3:17 left.

Arizona State responded with seven unanswered points, with two baskets by DJ Horne sandwiching a 3-pointer by Collins, tie the game at 57 with 1:46 remaining.

The Sun Devils could have taken the lead on their next possession but turned the ball — their 21st giveaway of the game.

Jakorie Smith made one of two free throws to give Tarleton State a 58-57 lead with 42 seconds left.

After Collins missed a 3-point try, Shakur Daniel grabbed the rebound for Tarleton State, but Horne stole the ball. He passed to Marcus Bagley, who followed his miss with a basket while he was fouled.

Bagley completed the three-point play with 18 seconds left to give Arizona State a 60-58 lead.

Collins then made a steal that led to Devan Cambridge dunk on a fastbreak with seven seconds remaining to secure the win.

Bagley, returning from a knee injury that sidelined him for most of last season, finished with 13 points.

Tarleton State was led by Smith’s 16 points and Daniel’s 10 points.

Arizona State had a 54-39 rebounding edge behind Cambridge’s 10 rebounds.

Tarleton State held a 23-11 lead with 7:05 left in the first half before Arizona State went on a 12-0 run to tie the game.

Two Collins 3-pointers ignited the pivotal run for Arizona State.

Collins made 8 of 24 shots from the field, including 4 of 11 from 3-point range. His 1-of-4 shooting from the free-throw line was indicative of Arizona State’s struggles in that category, as the Sun Devils made 14 of 29 (48.3 percent).

The Texans were 19 of 32 (59.4 percent) at the line.

Arizona State scored the last seven points of the first half, capped by two 3-pointers by Bagley, to take a 32-29 halftime lead.

–Field Level Media