Finishing a job that the selection committee thought they were capable of when they were granted the No. 1 overall seed, the UConn Huskies cruised to the school's sixth NCAA championship on Monday night, pulling away from the Purdue Boilermakers.
Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams laud Dan Hurley and UConn after they beat Purdue 75-60 to secure back-to-back national titles. win in the NCAA tournament when Dan Hurley finally relaxes. Two straight years, 12 straight games. It's become an inevitability.'s 3 with 1:04 left to put the game out of reach. Hurley looked at the UConn crowd and put up three fingers.on a jump shot with 3:50 remaining.
After he scored his 13th and 14th points of the game with 8:07 left in the first half to give Purdue a two-point lead, he looked over at the UConn bench and then exchanged a few words with Hurley as the two teams jogged back to their respective huddles at the under-eight media timeout. Over the final eight minutes of the first half, though, Edey struggled and Purdue struggled. He scored just two points the rest of the opening period, with UConn opening up a seven-point lead after an 11-2 run with 3:29 left., who failed to take care of the ball in Saturday's Final Four win over NC State, scored five straight points to keep Purdue in the game when it looked like UConn was getting separation.
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