When the Huskies received a No. 4 seed, nobody raised much of a stink. Four wins later it’s become apparent this is a team that might have been underestimated.
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“A lot of things happened,” Coach Dan Hurley said in explaining how UConn’s profile went from world-beater to middle of the pack in midseason. UConn ended the regular season listed eighth in the NCAA NET Rankings, a key guide for the selection committee that rates teams based on the strength of their schedules and other factors. That would have put UConn at a 2 seed. Meanwhile, Miami was 35th in those rankings, which would have corresponded with a No. 7 seed, not the No. 5 the Hurricanes received.
All that sort of shuffling across the country has been cited as a major reason the tournament has felt so jumbled this season, and left us with a Final Four nobody saw coming.In a sign the Huskies aren’t fooling anyone anymore, UConn is a prohibitive 10-13 favorite to win it all, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
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