NCAA Latest: Virginia beats Texas Tech to win 1st NCAA title.
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Rather than call timeout, the Cavaliers’ Ty Jerome rushed up the left side of the floor and kicked it across to De’Andre Hunter, whose 3-pointer knotted the game 68-all with 12.98 seconds left. The Red Raiders missed their first five shots of the second half, and a couple of them were wide open looks. They’ve found some space on the perimeter against the Cav’s pack-line defense, but so far the only one taking advantage of it has been Brandone Francis.
Texas Tech fans typically fling tortillas around at football games, but a whole bunch of them were smuggled into the student section at the national title game. The one that landed on the floor came after Texas Tech ripped off a 19-4 run to take a 25-21 lead in the game The Cavaliers have been pounding the offensive boards to create second-chance opportunities, and Ty Jerome’s 3-pointer and a dunk by Braxton Key forced Texas Tech’s Chris Beard to call timeout.Culver has struggled throughout the tournament, and he still hasn’t found his range at U.S. Bank Stadium. He’s missed his first three shots, including a dunk that was swatted away, and clanked a free throw while struggling against Virginia’s stingy defense.
Dick Bennett, who brought Wisconsin to the Final Four in 2000, often does not attend his son’s games because he gets too antsy. But he was sitting right behind the bench Monday night. The Bennetts are the second father-son combo to lead teams to the Final Four joining former Georgetown coaches John Thompson and John Thompson III.Tariq Owens is in the starting lineup for Texas Tech after spraining his right ankle in Texas Tech’s national semifinal victory over Michigan State.
about two hours before tip-off that she spoke with Beard, who says Owens probably would not play under normal circumstances but will be out there against the Cavaliers.It’s difficult to overstate De’Andre Hunter’s importance to Virginia in the title game of the NCAA Tournament. Of the five losses, two came last year against West Virginia and Virginia Tech. Hunter was sidelined last year with an injury when the Cavaliers lost in stunning fashion to UMBC, the first 16-over-1 upset since the tournament expanded.
UConn had reached the Elite Eight three times in the previous nine tournaments, and had three other Sweet 16 appearances before winning it all in 1999 by beating Duke. The Red Raiders had never been to an Elite Eight before last season and had only three Sweet 16 appearances in the previous 40 years. From 2008-15, Tech didn’t even make the NCAA Tournament.Virginia’s road to this national championship game hit quite the pothole last year with the historic loss to No.
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