It also doesn’t seem to make a damn bit of sense. If you’re sensing a trend here, there’s a reason.Ĭonnecticut’s all-time profile as a top-tier college basketball program isn’t just unique, it’s in its own galaxy. After that, you have to go all the way back to Kansas’ “Danny and the Miracles,” which lost 11 games before its surprising run to the 1988 national championship. UConn lost eight in 2014, which was the most since. Those eight losses that UConn finishes the season with? The most by a national champion since. Those two facts make them just the fifth national champion ever that didn’t win either a regular season or postseason league championship. In conference play, however, the Huskies went 13-7, tied for fourth place, and got bounced by Marquette in the Big East tournament semifinals. No college basketball team owned its non-conference opponents more, as UConn won all 17 games it played against non- Big East foes, and won all 17 of those games by double digits. 4 seed to ever cut down the nets, joining the 1996-97 Arizona Wildcats. The Huskies, meanwhile, became just the second No. In addition to being the first team in 12 years to start a season unranked and end it on top, Connecticut’s commanding three-week steamroll through the NCAA tournament actually snapped a streak of four consecutive No. 1 seed that looked like a national champion all season long.” And yet, that isn’t remotely the case here. come on.Įverything about UConn’s run to the program’s fifth national championship screams “dominant No. Connecticut was Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote: Sure, there were some other other people doing some good and cool things at times, but. We could go on here, but the gist is all you need. If that weren’t enough, UConn also became the first national champion in history to win all six of its games by double figures while also holding all six of its opponents to 65 points or fewer. A 72-59 Final Four win over Miami, which also never really seemed to be in jeopardy, was technically the toughest test the Huskies faced during March Madness. The first stat is the simplest: UConn is the first team in the history of the tournament to win six games by 13 points or more. The numbers, and I’m guessing you’ve seen some of them by now, are staggering. With a 76-59 win over San Diego State that never really felt in doubt, the 2022-23 Connecticut Huskies completed one of the most dominant national championship runs in the history of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
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