HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Jeff Adrien and Jerome Dyson both scored 16 points and No. 18 Connecticut bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 69-50 victory over USF on Tuesday night.

UConn (12-1, 1-1 Big East), which lost at West Virginia on Saturday, led by 14 points at halftime and scored the first 11 points of the second half.

USF (9-6, 0-1) didn't make a field goal in the second half until Melvin Buckley hit a 3-pointer with 14:25 left that made it 50-28.

Buckley led the Bulls with 17 points.

UConn went up 57-32 when 7-foot-3 freshman Hasheem Thabeet blocked a shot that sparked a fast break that ended when A.J. Price found Stanley Robinson for a two-handed slam.

UConn went underneath early to Adrien, who had nine points and nine of his 15 rebounds in the first half. But the Huskies began pulling away after going to a three-guard lineup.

Freshman guard Doug Wiggins came off the bench with UConn leading 8-7 five minutes into the game and immediately hit a 3-pointer and then a jumper. He was 4-of-6 from the field in the half, scoring all nine of his points.

Dyson and Craig Austrie both had two 3-pointers to help UConn take a 39-25 halftime lead.

Austrie also had nine points, and UConn's bench outscored USF's 22-0.

The Huskies were 7-of-14 from behind the arc and had 17 second-chance points.

The Bulls shot 55 percent from the field in the first half, but hit just 35 percent over the final 20 minutes.

South Florida's McHugh Mattis, leading the conference in blocked shots, had five, while Thabeet had five for UConn.