Ohio State vs UConn LIVE, Buckeyes and Huskies Score Updates in College Basketball

TNT has the national broadcast. Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m. ET, 6:30 p.m. CT, 4:30 p.m. PT and 01:30 in Madrid.

Stay with VAVEL for starting lineups, the score by half, Mullins and Mobley's box scores and the final team numbers once the game ends.

The game is played at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut, where UConn is 2-0 this season. DraftKings has the Huskies at minus 11.5 with a total of 147.5.

ESPN's matchup model gives UConn an 85.7 percent win probability and Ohio State 14.3. The Buckeyes' last game was a 10-point win over Marshall, and UConn's was a 42-point win over Wagner.

The two teams average 84.7 and 85.3 points per game, which adds up to 170. That is well above the 147.5 total.

Braylon Mullins and John Mobley Jr. are the top scorers on their teams and they get their points in different ways.

Mullins shoots 38.9 percent from the floor and 89.5 percent at the line. He scores 17.7 per game. Mobley scores 19.3 on 53.1 percent shooting and makes 94.4 percent of his free throws.

Mobley is the more efficient scorer from the field, and he is four inches shorter than Mullins, 6-foot-2 against 6-foot-6. Mobley also leads Ohio State in assists, while Mullins plays next to Demary, who has the assist lead at UConn.

UConn plays in the Big East, where six teams are 3-0, the Huskies among them. DePaul, Georgetown, Seton Hall, St. John's and Xavier are the others. Butler, Creighton, Marquette, Providence and Villanova are 2-1.

Ohio State is in the Big Ten. Indiana and Minnesota are 4-0 in ESPN's table, and Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oregon, UCLA, USC and Wisconsin are 3-0. The Buckeyes are 2-1 along with Illinois, Iowa and Michigan.

This is a non-conference game, so it does not count in either league's standings. It is a measuring stick for both teams.

UConn takes the ball away. The Huskies average 10.0 steals and 5.3 blocks per game, and their turnover number is low at 11.0. They shoot 33.3 percent from three.

Ohio State is the better free throw team, at 81.8 percent, and it shoots a little better overall. It makes fewer steals, 7.0 per game, and fewer blocks, 3.3.

Inside the arc Ohio State has the edge, 60.2 percent on two-pointers against 56.1 for UConn. The rebounding totals are close, 39.3 for UConn and 37.7 for Ohio State. The biggest difference is in steals, where UConn has a three-per-game edge.

The rosters tell a story too. UConn lists five seniors, led by Demary, and a coach in Dan Hurley. Ohio State lists two seniors and five freshmen under coach Jake Diebler, so the Buckeyes are the younger group.

The Buckeyes are 2-1. They lost 94-83 to BYU in the opener, then beat Youngstown State 89-65 and Marshall 84-74.

BYU is 4-0 in ESPN's Big 12 table, so the loss came against an unbeaten team. The BYU game is the only blemish, and it was a game in which Ohio State scored 83 points and still lost by 11. In the two wins the Buckeyes scored 89 and 84, so the offense has been steady. They have scored at least 83 in all three games.

The two wins came by 24 and 10. The defense has allowed 94, 65 and 74 points. Across the three games Ohio State's average margin is plus 7.7 points, against plus 30 for UConn.

UConn is 3-0 and the margins are big.

The Huskies beat Gardner-Webb 86-46 and then beat Michigan 85-77 in the toughest of the three games. Their most recent result was an 83-41 win over Wagner at home. The two lopsided results were by 40 and 42 points, and the Michigan game was the narrowest at eight.

Michigan, the third opponent, is 2-1 in the Big Ten table. UConn has held two of its three opponents under 50 points. That is a strong early defensive mark, and it matches the 10.0 steals per game the team averages. The average margin across the three wins is exactly 30 points.

Ohio State scores 85.3 points per game, slightly more than UConn. John Mobley Jr. is the biggest reason. He averages 19.3 points on 53.1 percent shooting and he makes 94.4 percent of his free throws. He also leads the team in assists with 5.0 per game and has only 1.7 turnovers.

Mobley is a 6-foot-2 junior guard from Reynoldsburg, Ohio, so he is a local player. Amare Bynum, a sophomore forward from Omaha, scores 15.0 a night, and Jelavic scores the same. Andrija Jelavic, a 6-foot-11 junior from Zagreb, Croatia, is the top rebounder with 7.3 a night, 3.7 offensive and 3.7 defensive.

The Buckeyes shoot 46.9 percent as a team and 60.2 percent inside the arc. Their weak spot is the three-point line, where they make only 27.8 percent.

UConn scores 84.7 points per game, and the scoring comes from several places. Braylon Mullins leads the Huskies at 17.7 points per game. He shoots just 38.9 percent from the field, but he has made 89.5 percent of his free throws.

Mullins is a 6-foot-6 sophomore guard from Greenfield, Indiana. Silas Demary Jr. runs the offense. He averages 5.3 assists with only 0.7 turnovers in 29.3 minutes, which is a very clean ratio. Demary is a senior from Raleigh, North Carolina. He also scores 14.7 a night and takes 3.7 steals, which is a big part of how UConn gets to 10.0 steals as a team. Na'jai Hines, a 6-foot-11 sophomore from Plainfield, New Jersey, is the leading rebounder at 7.3 per game, 4.3 of them on the defensive glass and 3.0 on the offensive end.

As a team, UConn has 15.0 assists a night and only 11.0 turnovers. The Huskies have scored 86, 85 and 83 points in their three games, so the offense has been steady even as the opponents changed.

Welcome to VAVEL's live coverage of Ohio State at UConn from PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford. Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m. ET on TNT, which is 01:30 in Madrid.

The UConn Huskies are ranked fourth by ESPN and have started 3-0, with a 2-0 mark at home. The Ohio State Buckeyes are 2-1 and have not played a road game yet this season. DraftKings, as listed by ESPN, has UConn as an 11.5-point favorite with a total of 147.5.

Dan Hurley coaches UConn and Jake Diebler coaches Ohio State. Both teams come off wins. UConn beat Wagner 83-41 and Ohio State beat Marshall 84-74. We will follow every basket, run and substitution from the opening tip, and the box score will update through the final buzzer.