GLENDALE, Ariz. – The lovable maniac who built UConn into a juggernaut refused to let his team relax. Dan Hurley urged the Huskies to keep pushing for more, even though their place in history was already set. He screamed for defensive pressure after an Alex Karaban 3-pointer put UConn up 14. He got into a… Read More »
UConn players celebrate after beating Purdue in the NCAA championship game at State Farm Stadium on Monday in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) UConn emphatically won a second straight NCAA Tournament on Monday night. The Huskies pulled away from Purdue in the second half en route to a 75-60 victory… Read More »
GLENDALE, Ariz. – All eyes will be on the two centers in Monday night’s NCAA championship game as Purdue’s 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and UConn’s 7-2 Donovan Clingan go head-to-head, but it all starts with the ball movement and guard play. the perimeter and that’s where things can get really interesting. UConn has a gauntlet of… Read More »
Caitlin Clark and Iowa are one win away from a national championship. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) A suffocating UConn defense held Caitlin Clark and Iowa to their worst first half of the season. It wasn’t enough. The Hawkeyes found their footing in the third quarter and then battled through the fourth to… Read More »
A team that lost all its starters, a team that was chronically injured, a team that graduated key role players, and another that seemingly came out of nowhere. That’s the lineup of participants for the Final Four. And while there are big-name teams and star players, when you look back at the start of the… Read More »
In recent years, we’ve heard men’s basketball coaches complain that they can no longer build a title contender based on one-and-done prospects, that the value of a five-star freshman has diminished. Consider this Final Four confirmation of that theory. Only one team has a freshman in its starting five. UConn’s Stephon Castle is the Huskies’… Read More »
For about 40 years, Nike and Adidas ran college basketball. They sponsored the teams. They paid the coaches. They filled out the rosters… through everything from running massive grassroots systems to identify and vet recruits to paying players to sign with their favorite “blue blood” programs. Not surprisingly, their top teams dominated the game in… Read More »
NC State and UConn each accomplish a rare feat in 2024. And together, they’re making history. The Wolfpack became the 14th school to have both its men’s and women’s basketball teams advance to the Final Four in the same season on Sunday, when the women’s team defeated Texas in the Elite Eight Hours before the… Read More »
ALBANY, NY — Caitlin, Angel, JuJu and Paige. Oh my. Monday night’s Elite Eight doubleheader is a blockbuster event that fans no doubt dreamed of when the bracket dropped. But they shook it off in the morning as the wildness of it dawned on them. Waking. No viewership record is safe. Also, there is no… Read More »
On the eve of his team’s Elite Eight game with Illinois, UConn head coach Dan Hurley came across a series of tweets from a little-known former Illini player. Sean Harrington, now an ESPN analyst, wrote on X that UConn “hasn’t faced a team as athletic and physical” as Illinois. He added that Terrence Shannon Jr.… Read More »