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The 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1998-99 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on March 29, 1999, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and featured the East Regional Champion, #1-seeded Duke against the West Regional ...
Connecticut's victory in the finals marks the biggest upset in Championship Game history in the NCAA tournament, as they were 9.5-point underdogs in the contest despite having compiled a 33–2 record going into the Championship game, including a 14–2 record in the tough Big East Conference.
At the break, UConn led 36–30. [27] UConn began the second half with possession and began the scoring through Newton; after shots by Kaufman-Renn and Castle, UConn's lead held at nine points. At the first TV timeout of the half, the Huskies led 43–34 and they expanded the lead to thirteen points shortly after on two dunks by Samson Johnson ...
The redshirt junior went on to score 28 points in her long-awaited return to the tourney, helping the Huskies to an 86-64 win. Bueckers was impactful in every area of the box score, adding 11 ...
A pair of free throws by Trammell brought UConn's lead back down to ten points; Alex Karaban's three-point shot twenty seconds later made the score 41–28. Both teams traded a pair of free throws near sixteen minutes to play, and Adam Seiko made a three-pointer to once again return UConn's lead to ten points. The Aztecs went for nearly three ...
The final score ended up being 77-52, but that was trivial after Connecticut delivered a proverbial TKO to Illinois and a warning shot to the rest of college basketball before and after halftime.
South Carolina improved to 23-0 with a dominant effort against UConn. ... Ashlyn Watkins filled up the box score with 15 points, nine rebounds, three assists, three blocks and two steals. Chloe ...
UConn went on a run in the tournament and defeated Ohio State 72–67 at Madison Square Garden to win the NIT, the school's first national basketball title. [58] UConn finished the season with a 20–14 record, its first winning season since 1982. The Huskies would ultimately achieve winning records in every season from 1988 through 2016.