Solo Ball swished a career-best seven 3-pointers en route to 22 points, and Alex Karaban had 18 points and seven rebounds to boost No. 11 UConn to an 81-68 win against host DePaul on Wednesday in Chicago.Samson Johnson scored 10 points and Hassan Diarra dished nine assists for the Huskies, who shot 48.4 percent compared to 39.6 percent for the Blue Demons.Conor Enright contributed 18 points and nine assists for DePaul, while Jacob Meyer (12 points) and N.J. Benson (10) also finished in double figures.UConn (11-3, 3-0 Big East) maintained a stranglehold in its series against DePaul (9-5, 0-3). The Huskies improved to 20-1 against the Blue Demons, whose lone victory over UConn came on Jan. 31, 2007.DePaul’s Big East regular season losing streak stretched to 35 games.DePaul trailed by as many as 22 points and never led but capitalized on a Huskies shooting swoon midway through the second half as UConn adjusted to a right ankle sprain that took starter Liam McNeeley (nine points, six rebounds) out of the game.A 7-0 Blue Demons run, fueled by attacking the basket and getting to the free throw line, closed the gap to 61-52 with 7:58 to go.But the Huskies responded with a trio of 3-pointers over a 50-second span. Karaban delivered UConn’s first field goal in more than five minutes when he connected at the 7:04 mark and bookended the spurt with a trey with 6:14 to go.DePaul surrendered the first five points of the afternoon and eight of the first 10 after the Huskies and Blue Demons traded missed 3-pointers on their opening possessions.