If you listened to sports talk radio the last day or so, you’d think UConn stole the national championship. Yeah, it was an ugly game. Butler was horrible and UConn scored the fewest points for a national champion in 60 years.
But UConn didn’t have to score a lot of points and Butler couldn’t mostly because of UConn’s great defense, the same defense that shut Kentucky down in the semi final.
It’s amazing how many people want to diminish UConn’s win by saying it was a mediocre year for college basketball., and that UConn might’ve been the best of the mediocre. One Big 10 coach went so far as to not vote for UConn #1 in the final poll, voting instead for Ohio State which was taken out of the tournament the weekend before.
That’s mean-spirited and petty. UConn won all the games it was supposed to win. The Huskies beat 11 straight opponents from wherever they came from. While the rest of the country complains about a soft season, fans in Connecticut will be celebrating another title.
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