UConn beat Purdue to win the NCAA championship on Monday night.
UConn center Donovan Clingan celebrates with guard Apostolos Roumoglou.UConn delivered the latest of its suffocating basketball beatdowns Monday night, smothering Purdue for a 75-60 victory to become the first team since 2007 to capture back-to-back national championships.
UConn was efficient on offense but won this with defense. The Huskies limited the country's second-best 3-point shooting team to a mere seven shots behind the arc - Purdue only made one - while happily allowing 7-foot-4 AP Player of the Year Zach Edey to go for 37 points on 25 shot attempts. Purdue made it this far a year after becoming just the second No. 1 seed in the history of March Madness to fall in the first round. But the Boilermakers left the same way they came - still looking for the program's first NCAA title.
The 2024 Huskies are the sixth team to win all six tournament games by double-digit margins. They won those games by a grand total of 140 points, blowing past the previous high of 121 by the 2009 North Carolina team for the highest margin among that exclusive club.
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