Scott Rich

He is...

When UConn wins, Terrace Reed plays good games.

But he has been streaky this year.

When UConn went through a pretty big lull in Big East play that was masked by the fact that they were winning, but they were winning a lot of really close games against inferior Big East opponents, Terrace Reed was not playing like one of the best big men in the country.

When UConn was running through the non-conference slate, Terrace Reed was playing like one of the best big men in the country.

His improvement at the five spot has been one of the two big improvements for UConn over last year.

The other big improvement is the point guard spot.

Last year, UConn hit the portal, did not hit on point guards like Aiden Mahaney, who came up from St.

Mary's, sort of had a lot of hubbub, did not pan out at the higher level.

We've seen that with a lot of transfer guys in the portal.

This year, they hit on their transfer.

They targeted Silas Demery, a name that Duke fans may be familiar with.

He was a guy who...

Was maybe kind of sort of rumored to have some interest in Duke in the portal the very, very beginning of silly season last summer because he's from North Carolina.

Ended up going to UConn and he has been the stabilizing force.

He has been a much better approximation of the point guard play.

that UConn had in its back-to-back national titles.

The thing to note about Silas Demery is that he had a high ankle sprain in the Big East Championship game against St.

John's.

He didn't play in their round one game.