The good news for UConn fans is that your team just picked up, considering the circumstances, perhaps its most impressive victory ever.
The bad news is that quarterback Tyler Lorenzen and tight end Steve Brouse both broke bones in their legs (Tyler’s was his right foot; Brouse was a right fibula, I believe) and will have surgery Sunday. Both are probably out for the season.
Also DT Rob Lunn (ankle), DT Kendall Reyes (ankle), DE Lindsey Witten (knee), CB Darius Butler (sort of injured) also went down during the game. All of them are likely to return soon.
Lorenzen was hurt on a quarterback run play that started a second-quarter drive. He stayed in the game until the drive ended with a Donald Brown touchdown.
“I heard him say he was hurt in the huddle,” Brown said. “He toughed it out for the drive.”
Brown, who has hit 100 yards in the first half of every UConn game, made it to 191 against the Cardinals. After the game that number somehow shrank in the final official stats to 190, but whatever. He’s running well and he says it was against a good opponent.
“This is by far the best team we’ve played all year,” Brown said. “That was a heck of a defense.”
The team played OK in spurts.
“Defensively we stunk in the first half,” UConn coach Randy Edsall said.
They weren’t great in the second half, but they stiffened when they had to.
“It was a 15-rounder and we were the last one standing,” Edsall said.
- Neill
