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NEW YORK – Dan Hurley knew he wasn’t going to sleep well and the UConn men’s basketball team knew it had some tough practices coming after it was outrebounded by 20 and lost a tight game to Arizona last week at Gampel Pavilion.

In Friday’s win over No. 13 Illinois , against another frontcourt that could be one of the best in the country, the Huskies were the tougher team.

“It was shameful, the Arizona game, for our men just to be dominated on the glass by another man. To be physically dominated by another man was a very difficult feeling for our team and our club and our players,” Hurley said after taking down the Illini, 74-61, at Madison Square Garden. “Watching the clips of that game versus Arizona and the way that they manhandled

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