UCONN Wins the National Championship!

In quite possibly one of the WORST games in NCAA history, the UCONN Huskies beat the Butler Bulldogs to win the NCAA National Championship game. As I said in a recent post, I believed that Kemba Walker, the star of the Husky team, would ultimately lead his team to a championship; and I was right. However, the team as a whole really rallied behind Walker, who scored sixteen points, in the second half of the game. Jeremy Lamb came out in the second half and started the rally for the Huskies as he scored all twelve of his points in the second half.

The Huskies also played solid defense, limiting the Bulldogs to just 41 points in the entire game. An important part of the Huskies win was their big men down low, particularly Alex Oriakhi. As a whole, the Husky team blocked ten of Butler shots, tying the NCAA Championship Game record. Of these ten, Oriakhi had four of these blocks. Oriakhi, along with Roscoe Smith (who also had 4 blocks) created an impenetrable wall down low, which really depleted the morale of the Butler team.

Ultimately, it was the Butler team themselves that led to this terrible loss. In the whole game, the Bulldogs made 18.6% of their shots, which is just unacceptable in a championship game. As the game went on, you could see the morale of the team start to dwindle as every shot was short, long, left, right, or anywhere except in the basket.

As bad of a game as it was, UCONN deserved to win the championship after winning 11 games in the past 27 days. Kemba is going to be a star in his last two years and I could definitely see him being a highlight performer in the NBA as well.