Tag: Connecticut Huskies
No double-teams, no 3s: The UConn defensive math that strangled Purdue and won a title
[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Connecticut assistant coach Luke Murray went to sophomore center Donovan Clingan sometime in the middle of this season with a declaration. UConn was going to face Purdue in the national championship, and he’d better get familiar with Zach Edey. Murray and Clingan discussed how they would play the hypothetical matchup, and…
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UConn stymies Purdue in title game, goes back-to-back
[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — With exactly six minutes left in Monday night’s national championship game, UConn guard Tristen Newton zoomed a pass to a cutting Stephon Castle, who skipped past Zach Edey in the paint and laid in an ordinary layup. Except it was only ordinary in execution, because that basket put the Huskies up…
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UConn’s desire to dominate is a sight to behold
[ad_1] Follow live coverage as UConn, Purdue play for the national championship today GLENDALE, Ariz. — Hassan Diarra brought his hand to his mouth, checking for blood. Alabama’s Rylan Griffen had caught him with a swinging elbow on a move to the basket in the waning moments of a game already decided. Now Diarra was…
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UConn survives Alabama test, returns to national title game
[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tristen Netwon waited for the ball screen up top, then hit cutting big man Donovan Clingan down the lane for an emphatic dunk. The Connecticut bench exploded. Although it took longer than usual, the Huskies pulled away from Alabama on Saturday night to post an 86-72 win at State Farm Stadium.…
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Iowa-UConn breaks record for most-watched women’s college hoops game
[ad_1] Another Iowa women’s basketball game, another new record for the sport when it comes to viewership. Iowa’s 71-69 win over UConn on Friday night in Cleveland set a new record for the most-watched women’s college basketball game in history. The game was viewed by 14.2 million people and peaked at 17 million viewers. Chad…
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‘They’ve got the perfect team’: Anonymous coaches break down the Final Four matchups
[ad_1] The Athletic has live coverage of NC State vs. Purdue in the Final Four. All season it has felt like we were trending toward an epic national championship showdown between Connecticut and Purdue. Each team is one win away from making that happen, but tricky matchups await them in Glendale, Ariz. There’s NC State…
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Iowa-South Carolina: The ending we all wanted and the finale this season deserves
[ad_1] CLEVELAND — Just when you thought this women’s basketball season couldn’t give any more, just when you thought it had drained itself of record on-court performances, all-time viewership numbers and compelling grudge matches, it is giving us an opportunity to witness all three in one game, pitting Iowa against South Carolina in the national…
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The adventures of Big Maple, Cling Kong and Beast Boy: Now playing at the Final Four
[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — There’s a Japanese word for movies involving giant monsters: kaiju. Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra. You know, the kind of city-destroying mega-beasts entire armies struggle to contain. Audiences love the cartoonish carnage. And the only thing better than one kaiju is multiple kaiju, preferably fighting each other. “Godzilla x Kong” is the…
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Will Paige Bueckers join UConn’s Mount Rushmore? She’s two wins away
[ad_1] PORTLAND, Ore. — The small group of young girls standing on the front row of Moda Center across the court from the biggest star in the gym must have called out Paige Bueckers’ name 100 times. They kept on — “PAIGE, PAIGE, PAIGE, PAIGE ” — until UConn guard KK Arnold noticed them. “You…
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Caitlin and Angel. JuJu and Paige. A superstar day for women’s basketball
[ad_1] ALBANY, N.Y. — It truly feels like Christmas morning. There’s no other accurate way to describe the level of anticipation here ahead of Iowa-LSU’s Elite Eight matchup, a rematch of last year’s record-setting national championship game featuring the sport’s two biggest stars in Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. But that’s not all that’s happening.…
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