It was speculated to be the battle of the massive males as UConn’s 7-2, 280-pound heart Donovan Clingan took on Purdue’s 7-foot-4, 300-pound Zach Edey, however the NCAA Males’s Basketball Nationwide Championship didn’t end up that method.
Certain, Edey had a blinding 37 factors, scoring greater than half of his workforce’s 60 factors, however it wasn’t sufficient towards a workforce effort from UConn, which outrebounded the Boilermakers 33-27, and ended up scoring 75 factors in a well-distributed effort which noticed 4 gamers in double figures to Purdue’s two.
UConn (36-3) grew to become the primary program to repeat as nationwide champion since Florida in 2006-07.
The primary half ended with a rating of 36-30 in favor of UConn, and the Huskies took over within the second half, broadening their lead within the first jiffy after halftime, which they by no means got here near relinquishing.