It was supposed to be the battle of the big men as UConn’s 7-foot-2, 280-pound center Donovan Clingan took on Purdue’s 7-foot-4, 300-pound Zach Edey. But the NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship didn’t turn out that way. It was Huskies’ guard Tristan Newton who led his team with 20 points and seven assists, and in […]
The UConn Huskies earned a shot at back-to-back men’s basketball national championships on Saturday with an 86-72 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Huskies’ starting lineup was in double figures in scoring and the team shot an impressive 50% from the field to remind the nation why they were the defending champs. The Huskies had a four-point lead at half time but busted the game open in the second half, outscoring the Crimson Tide by 10 points. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON...
UMaine beat Colgate 3-1 on Jan. 5, and the teams skated to a 4-4 tie the next night.
UConn’s six men's basketball national titles are tied with North Carolina for third all-time, only trailing UCLA (11) and Kentucky (8).
Game report: Dominant Huskies retain national titleHow the women’s NCAA Tournament became the main actPurdue 16-18 Connecticut, 11:28, first halfHassan Diarra adds two for UConn with a nice drive, but then Edey puts on a show at the other end, posting up and pivoting against Clingan to get free, score and draw the foul. He hits the free throw and now has Purdue’s last 11 points. Continue reading
The Connecticut Huskies are the 2024 NCAA Division 1 men's basketball champions after defeating the Purdue Boilermakers 75-60 in the Championship Game on Monday night.The Huskies went into halftime with a six-point lead, but a dominant defensive performance early in the second half, holding Purdue to just 10 points in over 10 minutes of play, allowed Connecticut to break away. The Huskies won every game in the tournament by more than 10 points.This is UConn's sixth men's basketball title and...
The well-balanced No. 1 UConn attack routed Zach Edey and No. 1 Purdue 75-60 in the 2024 men’s national championship game on Monday.
Not many students are selected to go and watch their school’s team compete at the Final Four and college basketball National Championships. The students who are selected are usually given the opportunity via the luck of the draw. The students who do attend these games don’t necessarily get the best experience as they are forced …
CLEVELAND — A national championship may have eluded guards Gabbie Marshall and Kate Martin, but what they accomplished for the Iowa women’s basketball team while donning the black and gold will be remembered forever. Marshall and Martin have played their last game as Hawkeyes, losing to South Carolina 87-75 in the final game of the
CLEVELAND — Lisa Bluder and her staff had to “work hard” to get Caitlin Clark to Iowa. She was the No. 4 recruit in the country and had an opportunity to take her talents to big-name programs like Notre Dame, Louisville, and Texas. But Clark didn’t take the easy route, the one where she would
The UCONN Huskies and the Purdue Boilermakers were the two best teams in
It was a fitting end to a perfect season. South Carolina became the 10th