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Connecticut's A.J. Price spots up for a jumper. Price scored 20 points in Connecticut's win on Sunday.

updated 5:02 p.m. ET Dec. 3, 2006

STORRS, Conn. - A.J. Price scored 20 points and Hasheem Thabeet tied a Connecticut record with 10 blocked shots as the 20th-ranked Huskies blew out Texas Southern 106-55 on Sunday to win their 26th straight home game.

Jerome Dyson added 19 points, Doug Wiggins had 17 and Marcus Johnson and Jeff Adrien each had 11. Adrien added nine rebounds for UConn (7-0).

Thabeet, the Huskies 7-foot-3 center, tied the shot-block record held by Donyell Marshall and Emeka Okafor. He also had seven points and four rebounds.

Leonta Matthews had 10 points to lead Texas Southern (2-6).

The Tigers couldn’t stay with the quicker and taller Huskies, and resorted to fouling early and often. Texas Southern had 30 fouls, 18 in the first-half, and three more before anyone had scored in the second half. UConn shot 29 free throws in the first half, hitting 23 of them.

UConn also scored 18 first-half points off turnovers, and when Marcus Johnson dunked off a lob pass from Price, the Huskies went into the locker room leading 58-28.

Texas Southern scored their 28th point with 1:25 left in the first half, and didn’t score again until 17:25 of the second to cut the deficit to 60-30.

UConn is in the midst of an 11-game homestand to open the season. The Huskies won their last three at home in 2004-05, went 16-0 at home in 2005-06 and are 6-0 at home this season. The Huskies don’t play on the road until their Big East opener at West Virginia on Dec. 30.

The Tigers have played a tough schedule so far, losing at Oklahoma State, Baylor, No. 6 Alabama and Texas.

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UConn came into the game allowing just 52 points per contest, and is holding opponents to a 32 percent field-goal average. Texas Southern shot 35.6 percent.

UConn and Texas Southern met last season for the first time in a similar game, with the Huskies winning 113-49.

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