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And they made life hard on SDSU when the Aztecs had the ball. SDSU shot 36.2% from the field and 22.7% from 3-point distance against a UConn defense that ranks eighth in adjusted defensive efficiency.
The 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.It determined the national champion for the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and was contested by the San Diego State Aztecs from the Mountain West Conference and the Connecticut (UConn) Huskies from the Big East Conference.
UConn won last year's championship game 76-59 and also beat the Aztecs in the 2011 Sweet 16, with Kemba Walker scoring 36 points to set a tournament record and beat Kawhi Leonard’s San Diego State.
This was the last NCAA tournament until 2023 in which a mid-major conference saw multiple teams reach the Sweet 16, as both BYU and San Diego State did from the Mountain West Conference. Northern Colorado, winners of the Big Sky Conference, made its first NCAA Division I tournament.
The 84th annual edition of the tournament began on March 14, 2023, and concluded with the UConn Huskies defeating the San Diego State Aztecs, 76–59 in the championship game on April 3 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. [2]
The UConn Huskies pretty much wrecked every team they faced in the NCAA Tournament on the way to last year’s championship and the first two games this March Madness look awfully familiar. Up ...
The Huskies took advantage of a SDSU scoring drought in the first half to build a lead they wouldn't relinquish. March Madness: UConn keeps San Diego State at bay to win fifth national title since ...
After coasting to an easy victory over Bucknell 81–52 in the first round, the Huskies defeated the Cincinnati Bearcats 69–58 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. After fighting past a dangerous San Diego State team that had entered the game with a 34–2 record 74–67, UConn faced off against Arizona in the Elite Eight. [3]