HOUSTON (AP) — UConn doled retired different drama-free hoops beatdown Saturday, getting 21 points and 10 rebounds from Adama Sanogo to dispatch Miami 72-59 and determination 1 triumph from the school’s 5th nationalist title.
Jordan Hawkins overcame his tummy bug and scored 13 for the Huskies, who came into this most unexpected Final Four arsenic the lone squad with immoderate acquisition connected assemblage basketball’s last play and with the champion seeding of the 4 teams successful Houston — astatine No. 4.
Against fifth-seeded Miami, they were the champion squad connected the tribunal from opening to end. Starting with 3 consecutive 3s — 1 jumper from Hawkins and 2 acceptable shots from Sanogo — UConn took a speedy 9-0 pb and ne'er trailed.
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On Monday successful the rubric game, the Huskies volition look San Diego State, which became the archetypal squad to deed a buzzer-beater portion trailing successful a Final Four crippled for a 72-71 victory implicit Florida Atlantic.
That was an all-timer. This 1 ― much of the aforesaid from the Huskies (30-8). The double-digit triumph implicit Miami was UConn’s closest triumph successful 5 tourney games.
Isaiah Wong led the ’Canes with 15 points connected 4-for-10 shooting. Harassed perpetually by Sanogo, 7-foot-2 Donovan Clingan and the remainder of Connecticut’s long-armed, rangy perimeter players, Miami, which came successful with the nation’s fifth-best offense, changeable 25% successful the archetypal fractional and 33.3% for the game.
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