In The American's only two men's basketball games of the night, both UConn and USF fell on Wednesday (Nov. 13).

Saint Joseph's 96, UConn 87 - Box Score

STORRS, Conn. (AP) Saint Joseph's played two very different halves of basketball Wednesday night, but played well enough in both to get a big road win.

Ryan Daly scored a career-high 30 points as the Hawks jumped out to a 27-point lead and then held off UConn for a 96-87 victory.

Rahim Moore added 22 points and Myles Douglas had 18 for St. Joe's (2-1), which saw its advantage shrink to three points late, but never trailed.

"We'll take something from our first half and executing our style and our system and then we found a way to win with toughness in the last eight minutes of the game," said first-year coach Billy Lange.

Christian Vital had 26 points and Alterique Gilbert added 22 for UConn (1-1).

The Hawks opened the game with a 14-0 run. While UConn missed its first nine shots, St. Joe's hit five of its first seven, including three of four from 3-point range.

Gilbert paused the bleeding for a moment with UConn's first basket, a driving layup that came more than four minutes into the game.

But a 3-pointer by Daly pushed St. Joe's lead over 20-points at 34-12 midway through the first half and the Hawks extended that to 46-19. Daly had 21 points by halftime, hitting five of his first seven shots from 3-point range.

"I honestly hadn't hit a 3 all season yet," said Daly. "And I thought about it and today I came out and I was feeling it early."

It was 54-38 at the break and 69-48 with 12 ½ minutes left.

UConn went to a pressing defense and quickly cut into that deficit, outscoring the Hawks 21-4 over the next four minutes. The run was capped by a driving layup from Vital that made it 73-69.

The Huskies got as close as 79-76 after two free throws from Vital. But Daly hit a 3-pointer on the other end and St. Joe's outscored UConn 17-11 down the stretch.

"We're learning," Vital said. "We're not a perfect group of guys. We're not a perfect team. We're going to definitely stay together, that's for sure."

IUPUI 70, USF 53 - Box Score

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Marcus Burk scored 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds and IUPUI upset South Florida 70-53 on Wednesday night for its first win against an American Athletic Conference foe.

Jaylen Minnett added 17 points with seven assists for the Jaguars (2-2), who led 38-36 at halftime and held the Bulls to 17 second-half points.

Laquincy Rideau led the Bulls (1-2) with 15 points and seven steals and Rashun Williams added 11 points.