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Connecticut's Kemba Walker holds the championship trophy after
his team won the m en's NCAA Final Four college basketball
championship game Monday against Butler 53-41. (AP Photo)
PO R U A N I) STATE
OUR TOWN. YOUR TEAM
UConn Defense Brings Third Title
Finish more grit, brawn than glamour
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(AP) - The game was better suited stage.
for a dusty old gym than a state-of-
UConn won this title with a de­
the-art stadium — the offense and fensive showing for the ages, hold­
shooting more the stuff of a long- ing Butler to 12-for-64 shooting.
ago era than 2011.
That's 18.8 percent, the worst ever
The championship trophy? Well, in a title game.
that will look good in the case up at
It was a game short on aesthetics
UConn, where a season of perse­ but full of tough-nosed defense; an
verance closed with an 11 -game old-school game, the kind a coach­
winning streak and a spirit-lifting ing lifer like Calhoun had to love.
win for coach Jim Calhoun, to say
"From a purist standpoint, if you
nothing of a crowning moment for a really like defense, take a clip of this
one-of-a-kind player named Kemba. game," he said.
In a game that featured more grit
At age 68, he became the oldest
than glamour and more brawn than coach to win the NCAA champion­
beauty, Connecticut made Butler look ship. He won his third title since
like the underdog it really was Mon­ 1999 and joined John Wooden,
day night, winning the NCAA title in Adolph Rupp, Mike Krzyzewski and
Houston with an old-fashioned 53^t 1 Bob Knight as the only coaches to
beatdown of the Bulldogs.
get to the top three or more times.
Star guard Kemba Walker fin­
UConn trailed 22-19 after a first
ished with 16 points for the Huskies half that came straight out of the
(32-9), whose amazing late-season '40s.
streak kept going right through the
The Huskiest outscored Butler
final buzzer. They won their 11 th by an unthinkable 26-2 in the paint.
straight game — five at the Big East The Bulldogs (28-10), in their sec­
tournament and six in March Mad­ ond straight title game and hoping
ness — since closing the regular to put the closing chapter on the
season with a 9-9 conference record ultimate "Hoosiers" story, went a
that foreshadowed none of this.
mind-numbing 13:26 in the second
"Going into games, we always half making only one field goal.
say, 'If you miss a shot, it's all right,
During that time, a 25-19 lead
but if you don't play hard, it's not turned into a 41 -28 deficit.
good enough,"' Walker said.
Butler's 41 points were 10 points
Nothing to worry about in this fewer than the worst showing in the
one, then, one of the ugliest games shot-clock era in a championship
in memory on the sport's biggest game.