The Final Four title game was won by the University of Connecticut

The Huskies Lock the Door: Anatolian Karaban tries three times in the second half and Adama Sanogo’s dominance

It was not boring. When Alex Karaban hit a 3 in the middle of the second half, the Huskies took a 13-point lead into the locker room.

Adama Sanogo, the star center at the University of Washington, was his dominant self due to the fact that he had said he would be eating oranges and coconut water before the game. He finished with a game-high 21 points and 10 rebounds. The guard added 13 points, despite being questionable due to a non-covid illness.

The first NCAA title game as played by Adama Sanogo, the lead scorer of the Aztecs and a critical shot on Miami

In a interview with CBS, he said he was happy that he attracted the right type of people to put him in this position. The players, the coaching staff and the University of Connecticut, I appreciate them a lot. They took a chance on a guy that was a high school coach not too long ago. What a beautiful day and I’m very grateful. For a long time we have been looking for five.

San Diego State beat Florida Atlantic at the buzzer to advance to its first NCAA title game. Trailing 71-70 with less than two seconds left in the game, Aztecs guard Lamont Butler hit a pull-up jumper at the buzzer to propel the school to the national championship game.

The Huskies now look to win the program’s fifth national championship when they face off with San Diego State on Monday evening at NRG Stadium in Houston.

Nobody was guarding the best player. So Adama Sanogo spun the ball to get his fingers just right, set his feet behind the 3-point line and splashed in the shot. He did it again less than a minute later.

It was as much basketball clinic as highlight video — and all of it perfectly fitting for the Huskies, who are methodically steamrolling through a March Madness bracket that has been a free-for-all everywhere else.

UConn doled out another drama-free beatdown Saturday, getting 21 points and 10 rebounds from Sanogo to dispatch Miami 72-59 and move one win from the school’s fifth national title.

The only team with experience in the Final Four other than the one at No. 4 is the Washington, who came into the tournament as the only team with experience in the Final Four other than the one at No.

“They’re one of the best teams in the country,” UConn coach Dan Hurley said of the Aztecs. “And I think it’s fitting that both of us kind of earned our way into this title game.”

Wong was the Canes’ leading scorer with 15 points. Miami came into the game with the fifth-best offense in the nation, but it only shot 25% in the first half and 33.3% for the game.

“Obviously what we tried to do not only didn’t work, I couldn’t even recognize it,” Miami coach Jim Larranaga said. We were out of sync but at the same time, we were also.

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They built it to 20 before the first TV timeout of the second half. He would start saving his voice for Monday when he calls his last Final Four.

Not helping: Hurricanes guard Nijel Pack missed about five minutes after managers had trouble locating a substitute for a busted shoe. Pack finished with eight points, and Jordan Miller, who hit all 20 shots he took from the floor and the line in Miami’s Elite Eight win, went 4 for 10 for 11 points. Only one Miami player made more than half his shots.

“I’m a defensive guy first and foremost,” Hurley said. “I just love the way we guarded them. They’re one of the best offenses in the country, and we really disrupted them.”

The type of all-around effort the team has been putting in since the start of February, when it began the bounce back from six losses in seven games, was shown by the fact that it had five blocks, including two from Sanogo, and 19 assists.

That cold stretch is a big reason they were seeded only fourth for March. Now, it’s April and the number UConn is thinking about is “5” — as in, a fifth title that will come if it can keep this up for one more game.