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* Lamont Butler hits a buzzer-beater to send San Diego to the championship game.
Connecticut managed to land a spot all the way the national championship game after its 72-59 defeat of Miami on Saturday night. The Huskies on Monday night will play San Diego State, which spoiled the night for another South Florida team when Butler shot one at the buzzer and rescued a 72-71 victory over Florida Atlantic.
The Huskies can restore a semblance of order to a chaotic tournament with a capstone victory, which would be their fifth championship in 25 years – something no men’s program other than U.C.L.A. and Duke has accomplished.
The Huskies have looked in the tournament much like the team that began the season with 14 convincing victories, including a blowout of Alabama, which would finish the regular season as the top-ranked team in the nation. But after that hot start, the Huskies went careening off the rails, losing six of eight, before stabilizing ahead of the tournament.
By the time the national semifinals arrived, Connecticut presented the Hurricanes with perhaps the most intimidating opponent of those available in Houston.
Miami certainly will not view a 72-59 loss to UConn as a moral victory as the Hurricanes pack up and go home, but a case can be made: The 13-point margin is the closest anybody has come to UConn in this entire tournament.
Connecticut managed to land a spot all the way the national championship game after its 72-59 defeat of Miami on Saturday night. The Huskies on Monday night will play San Diego State, which spoiled the night for another South Florida team when Butler shot one at the buzzer and rescued a 72-71 victory over Florida Atlantic.
Butler's buzzer-beater carries San Diego Aztecs into championship game.
The Huskies have looked in the tournament much like the team that began the season with 14 convincing victories, including a blowout of Alabama, which would finish the regular season as the top-ranked team in the nation. But after that hot start, the Huskies went careening off the rails, losing six of eight, before stabilizing ahead of the tournament.
By the time the national semifinals arrived, Connecticut presented the Hurricanes with perhaps the most intimidating opponent of those available in Houston.
Miami certainly will not view a 72-59 loss to UConn as a moral victory as the Hurricanes pack up and go home, but a case can be made: The 13-point margin is the closest anybody has come to UConn in this entire tournament.
Previously, St. Mary’s held the mark with a 15-point loss. Overall, in their five games, the Huskies have won by 24 points (Iona), 15 (St. Mary’s), 23 (Arkansas), 28 (Gonzaga) and now 13. That is an average margin of victory of 20.6 points per game.
The championship game will be broadcast on Monday at 8:20 Central.
2 comments:
Aztecs in the Final Four.
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