tti lost despite hitting 56 aces. Barton had 32 aces.Olivetti also pile

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- As members of the Big East Conference, the Syracuse Orange and Connecticut Huskies played some of the most memorable games in college basketball history at Madison Square Garden.But as they return to the Garden for a 7 p.m. game Monday, the Orange and Huskies will be more concerned about finding their identity than making history.Syracuse, now in the Atlantic Coast Conference, entered this season with six new players among its top nine. After a 4-0 start against low- and mid-major teams, the Orange lost by a combined 31 points to 20th-ranked South Carolina at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and 17th-ranked Wisconsin at the Kohl Center.This past Saturday, Syracuse nearly blew a 24-point second-half lead against North Florida at home before hanging on for a 77-71 win.Other than seniors Rodney Purvis and Amida Brimah, UConn is relying on freshmen and sophomores who have been mostly inconsistent.The Huskies, now in the American Athletic Conference, opened this season with losses to Wagner and Northeastern -- the first time since 1968-69 that UConn lost its first two games of the year.The Huskies (3-4) rebounded with wins over Loyola Marymount and Chaminade in the Maui Invitational and Boston University, but they also lost to Oklahoma State and 23rd-ranked Oregon in Maui.UConn is down to eight scholarship players because of season-ending injuries to freshman point guard Alterique Gilbert (shoulder), freshman forward Mamadou Diarra (knee) and sophomore swingman Terry Larrier (knee). Larrier and Gilbert had combined to average nearly 24 points per game.Sophomore point guard Jalen Adams leads the Huskies in scoring (18.8 points per game) and assists (5.4 per game), and Purvis is averaging 11.3 points per game.We just have to try and get better, coach Kevin Ollie said after the Huskies held on to defeat Boston University 51-49 this past Wednesday. Weve got eight guys and were going to continue playing with those guys. Were not making any excuses. But I was very happy with the win and were finding ways to win.Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim shook up his starting lineup against North Florida by sitting senior forward Tyler Roberson (one point, eight rebounds against South Carolina and Wisconsin), inserting freshman shooting guard Tyus Battle, moving fifth-year transfer Andrew White from shooting guard to small forward, and shifting sophomore Tyler Lydon from small forward to power forward.The results were mixed, as White and Battle combined for 45 points on 15-of-22 shooting from the field, but the Orange bench -- Roberson, fifth-year transfer John Gillon and freshman Taurean Thompson -- combined for one point, five rebounds and one assist in a combined 30 minutes.You have to be able to score. It wasnt even a decision (to bench Roberson); you cant play 34 minutes and score a point and keep your job, Boeheim said. You just cant do that unless youre doing something unbelievable and that wasnt the case.Roberson averaged 8.5 rebounds per game last season but is down to 5.4 per game this season. With its smaller starting lineup, Syracuse will be hard-pressed to win the rebounding battle as North Florida and its three-guard lineup outrebounded the Orange 41-33.With each teams respective flaws, its unlikely the Orange and Huskies will be able to duplicate Big East Tournament Madison Square Garden classics such as Syracuses 127-117 victory in six overtimes in 2009 or UConns 76-71 overtime win in 2010 when Kemba Walker had 33 points and 12 rebounds.But its still Connecticut-Syracuse at the Garden, and thats enough for those who remember they heyday of the Big East.Ive been watching that rivalry ever since Ive been playing basketball, said Orange center DaJuan Coleman, who grew up in Syracuse. 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"Hes going to have hip surgery on Jan. 7, and hell be expected to rehabilitate for four to six months beyond that," Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said Friday in an interview.LONDON -- The Latest on Wimbledon (all times local):8:40 p.m.French Open semifinalist Dominic Thiem was beaten in the second round at Wimbledon.The eighth-seeded Austrian, who won a grass-court tournament in Stuttgart this month, lost to Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) on No. 1 Court.The match had only two breaks of serve, both coming in the first set.Thiem reached the semifinals at a major tournament for the first time at the French Open, losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic. Vesely has been to third round at Wimbledon once before, getting that far in 2014. He also reached the third round at last years U.S. Open.---7:50 p.m.Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2012 runner-up at Wimbledon, saved three match points and came back to beat 18-year-old Croatian Ana Konjuh, who accidentally stepped on a tennis ball and injured her right ankle in the next-to-last game.Radwanska pulled out the 2-6, 6-4, 9-7 victory in the second round after the 103rd-ranked Konjuh was broken while serving for the victory at 5-4 and 6-5 in the third set.Radwanska has made it to at least the semifinals at Wimbledon in three of the past four years.---6 p.m.Andy Murray improved to 7-0 on grass this season, beating Lu Yen-Hsun 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 to reach the third round at Wimbledon.The 2013 champion at the All England Club won his fifth title at Queens before coming to Wimbledon.Murray trailed 3-1 in the first set but dropped only three more games the rest of the match. He finished with only 12 unforced errors, while Lu had 25.Murray will next face John Millman of Australia.---5:20 p.m.French Open champion and 2015 Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza has been stunned in the second round at the All England Club by a qualifier ranked 124th.Less than a month after winning her first Grand Slam title, the second-seeded Muguruza lost 6-3, 6-2 to Jana Cepelova of Slovakia in less than an hour Thursday. Muguruza made 22 unforced errors and only managed to produce nine winners.A year ago at Wimbledon, Muguruza reached her first major final, losing to Serena Williams. Less than a month ago at Roland Garros, Muguruza beat Williams for the championship.Cepelova has equaled her best showing at a Grand Slam tournament by getting to the third round.This, though, is hardly her first big victory. At Wimbledon last year, she knocked off third-seeded Simona Halep in the first round. And at Charleston, South Carolina, in 2014, Cepelova defeated top-ranked Serena Williams.---5:05 p.m.French Open champion Garbine Muguruza is in trouble in her second-round match against Jana Cepelova, a Slovakian qualifier ranked No. 124.The second-seeded Spaniard, who lost to Serena Williams in last years final, dropped the first set 6-3 and was down 0-3 in the second.---4:10 p.m.Kei Nishikori advanced to the third round at Wimbledon by beating Julien Benneteau 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.The fifth-seeded Nishikori, the highest-ranked Japanese player in ATP history, had 48 winners in the match, the first on Centre Court on Day 4 at the All England Club.Nishikori, who reached the fourth round in 2014, will next face Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia.---3:25 p.ddddddddddddm.Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams won another match at the All England Club, beating Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the third round.The eighth-seeded Williams, at 36 the oldest player seeded in the top eight at a major tournament since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994, had 38 winners but 31 unforced errors.Williams won the last of her five Wimbledon titles in 2008. Since 2011, she has not been past the fourth round.---3:10 p.m.Milos Raonic advanced to the third round at Wimbledon by beating Andreas Seppi 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.The sixth-seeded Canadian, who reached the semifinals at the All England Club in 2014, had 25 aces in the match.Raonic has been working with John McEnroe since the grass-court season started. He reached the final at Queens prior to the start of Wimbledon, losing to Andy Murray in the final. He is 6-1 on grass this year.---12:40 p.m.British player Dan Evans made it to the third round at Wimbledon for the first time, beating 30th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-1.Evans entered the Grand Slam with a 0-3 career record at Wimbledon but has won two straight matches to equal his best performance at a major, at the U.S. Open in 2013.Dolgopolov, a 2011 Australian Open quarterfinalist, was in the second round at the All England Club for the fifth straight year. He reached the third round in 2013 and `14, but has never been beyond the first week.---12:30 p.m.After a four-hour contest between two qualifiers that went to 26 games in the fifth set, the match ended on a double-fault.Australias 248th-ranked Matthew Barton fell forward onto the grass in relief and exhaustion after 793rd-ranked Albano Olivettis second serve hit the top of the net and flew wide.Barton came away with a 6-7 (9), 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (5), 14-12 win on Thursday in the completion of a first-round match that resumed at 3-3 in the fifth set after previous rain delays.Olivetti lost despite hitting 56 aces. Barton had 32 aces.Olivetti also piled up 108 winners, compared to 88 for Barton.Barton earned a second-round match against another marathon man, John Isner. The American beat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010 in a match that went to 70-68 in the fifth set and lasted more than 11 hours over three days.---11:30 a.m.Andy Murray aims to join Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in the third round as Wimbledon scrambles to clear a backlog of matches caused by rain delays.Play on the outside courts started 30 minutes earlier than usual on Thursday under cloudy skies, with some rain forecast for later in the day.Murray, the 2013 champion who is seeded No. 2, was set to play the second match on Centre Court against 76th-ranked Yen-hsun Lu of Taiwan.Other men in action include No. 5 Kei Nishikori, No. 6 Milos Raonic and No. 7 Richard Gasquet.Among the women, French Open champion and No. 2 Garbine Muguruza is set to play on Court 1 against Jama Cepelova.More than a dozen players are still stuck in the opening round because of rain delays. ' ' '