Connecticut trounces Army

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Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	17	30
Total Yards	250	503
Passing	114	304
Rushing	136	199
Penalties	6-49	7-49
3rd Down Conversions	2-13	3-10
4th Down Conversions	0-1	0-0
Turnovers	2	1
Possession	28:43	31:17

Individual Leaders

Army Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Silva 9/20 87 0 0 Nevels 2/7 27 0 1	Connecticut Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Orlovsky 25/34 288 4 1 Bonislaw... 2/3 16 0 0
Army Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Jones 16 81 0 18 Robinson 7 43 0 15 Gulsby 1 7 0 7	Connecticut Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Brockington 17 111 1 21 Bellamy 12 65 0 12 Taylor 4 34 0 22
Army Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Robinson 3 7 0 6 Trimble 2 34 0 24 Ulekowski 2 19 0 11 Murphy 2 9 0 7	Connecticut Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Henry 7 117 2 45 Williams 5 73 0 18 Cutaia 5 58 0 19 Sparks 2 20 0 11

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				ARMY	CONN
	TD	13:00	DAN MURRAY 3 YD PASS FROM DAN ORLOVSKY (MATT NUZIE KICK) Drive info: 6 plays, 73 yards.	0	7
	TD	11:12	KERON HENRY 45 YD PASS FROM DAN ORLOVSKY (MATT NUZIE KICK) Drive info: 2 plays, 52 yards.	0	14
	FG	3:05	AUSTIN MILLER 44 YD FG Drive info: 7 plays, 44 yards.	3	14
SECOND QUARTER				ARMY	CONN
	TD	11:31	CORNELL BROCKINGTON 4 YD RUN (BLOCKED XP) Drive info: 8 plays, 66 yards.	3	20
	TD	3:09	KERON HENRY 15 YD PASS FROM DAN ORLOVSKY (MATT NUZIE KICK) Drive info: 5 plays, 35 yards.	3	27
THIRD QUARTER				ARMY	CONN
	TD	9:05	TIM LASSEN 1 YD PASS FROM DAN ORLOVSKY (MATT NUZIE KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 59 yards.	3	34
	FG	2:02	MATT NUZIE 26 YD FG Drive info: 11 plays, 65 yards.	3	37
FOURTH QUARTER				ARMY	CONN
	FG	12:14	MATT NUZIE 34 YD FG Drive info: 9 plays, 37 yards.	3	40

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Army coach Bobby Ross had a gut feeling about this game, and it wasn't good.

The Black Knights lost 40-3 to Connecticut on Saturday to extend the nation's longest losing streak to 18 games.

"I felt going into the game that it didn't feel like we were ready," said Ross, the former NFL coach who was coaxed out of retirement after Army went 0-13 last season. "I tried to build a little fire into them before the game and it never came. There was never a spark."

Ross apologized to the cadet corps and fans for his team's performance. He even apologized to U.S. troops "because I think it extends to that phase of it."

"You have to have some internal leadership," he said. "I questioned our effort and whether or not we have the will to win."

There were plenty of positives for UConn, however. Dan Orlovsky threw for 288 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Huskies (3-1).

The Huskies made it look easy early using a balanced attack and scoring on their first two possessions. Orlovsky capped UConn's opening 73-yard drive with a 3-yard TD pass to tight end Dan Murray. He found Keron Henry less than two minutes later for a 45-yard score and Army was unable to mount much of a challenge after that.

"We wanted to come out, start fast and finish fast," Orlovsky said. "We didn't just want to come out for a series or two and die off. We took care of business."

Henry and Orlovsky also hooked up in the closing minutes of the first half for a 15-yard TD. The two scores were a career best for Henry, a former quarterback who switched to wideout after Orlovsky became the starter in 2001.

Henry also finished with a career-high 117 yards on seven catches.

Cornell Brockington delivered a solid ground game, rolling up 95 yards in the first half and a touchdown. He finished with 111 yards. His touchdown, a 4-yard run, with 11:31 left in the first half, was set up by James Hargrave's interception of Reggie Nevels.

Army (0-3) used both Nevels and Matt Silva at quarterback and neither could do much against UConn's bigger, quicker defenders.

Under a constant rush, the Black Knights fumbled five times and rarely got within striking distance. They made the most of their one chance, though, when Austin Miller's 45-yard field goal attempt hit the crossbar and bounced through for Army's only points in the first quarter.

The Huskies had a comfortable 27-3 lead at the half and came back with more of the same to start the second half. Orlovsky engineered a 59-yard drive on UConn's first possession, hitting tight end Tim Lassen for a 1-yard TD pass

Orlovsky was finally pulled later in the third quarter for backup Matt Bonislawski after completing 25 of 34 attempts. Nevels and Silva combined for 114 passing yards for Army, hitting 11 of 27 attempts.

UConn held Army to 136 yards rushing. The Huskies ground game racked up 199 yards.

UConn coach Randy Edsall was happy with the way his team rebounded from its first loss, a 27-7 defeat at Boston College in the Huskies' Big East debut.

"They focused on what they were supposed to do, play with a lot of intensity and have a hunger to go back there and get a win," Edsall said. "They had great focus, great attention to detail during the week."