The UConn men are on top of the basketball world. Again.
For the second year in a row, it was Dan Hurley and the Huskies cutting down the nets and lifting the national championship trophy on the sport’s biggest stage, completing their remarkable run as reigning champs with a 75-60 win in a mammoth matchup against Purdue Monday night.
“What could you say. We won. By a lot. Again,” Hurley said, after the program’s 12th consecutive NCAA Tournament win by double-digits.
UConn is the first repeat men’s national champion since Florida in 2006-07, the eighth all-time and only the third since the NCAA Tournament expanded in 1985 – including the 1991 and ’92 Duke teams that had Bobby Hurley, Dan’s brother, at point guard.
Now with six titles in as many championship game appearances, all since 1999, UConn is tied with North Carolina for the third-most of any program in the nation behind UCLA (11) and Kentucky (8).
“For the last 25, 30 years, UConn’s been running college basketball,” Hurley said on the podium.
The national title caps off a 37-3 season, the best in program history, which included Big East regular season and tournament titles.
