UConn defends NCAA title with 75-60 win over Canadian Zach Edey and Purdue
UConn players celebrate as time expires during the second half of the NCAA college Final Four championship basketball game against Purdue . UConn won 75-60 on April 8, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz.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 offence but won this with defence. 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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