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Top-seeded Purdue will face defending champions Connecticut for the championship tonight. The game starts at 9:20 p.m. ET.
Admittedly, Purdue has had a bit of a tougher time doing that, but both teams have seemingly been on a collision course for most of the tournament. A newspaper reporter in Lafayette, closer to where Perdue is, responded that it was making excuses for the drubbing by claiming it could only be because of brute force,
The easy answer: TV ratings. A tipoff that happens post-rush hour for the whole county maximizes the potential TV audience. Typically, March has been a home for the inexperienced-unknown-leads-mid-major-to-upset-victory storylines we all know and love. This year’s tournament had a version of it, save for one detail — the inexperienced part. A graduate student six years into his college basketball playing career, Oakland guard Jack Gohlke hit 10 3s to lead his Grizzlies in an upset of Kentucky in the opening round.
The UConn Huskies are trying for back-to-back championships — giving them six overall — while Purdue is trying for its first. The final test is facing a Purdue team that spent an entire season proving it had recovered from one of the rarest of NCAA Tournament upsets.
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