CHICAGO — UConn guard Solo Ball missed his team's 72-54 victory over DePaul on Sunday with a minor injury.
Ball, a 6-foot-4 junior guard, averages a team-high 15.4 points per game. He scored a career-high 26 points on 8-of-14 shooting in Tuesday night's 79-60 win over Butler.
Ball started the first 12 games of the season for the fifth-ranked Huskies. He made 99 three-pointers and averaged 14.4 points in 35 games as a sophomore.
Without him, Alex Karaban scored 21 points for the No. 5 Huskies, who defeated the Blue Demons to improve to 12-1, 2-0 in the Big East. DePaul fell to 8-5, 0-2.
