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Illinois tied UConn at 23-23 with 1:51 to go before halftime thanks to a short jumper from Marcus Domask. After that bucket, the Illini didn’t score for 50 minutes of actual time before Justin ...
Despite three field goals by Edey in the final minutes of the game, UConn's Clingan and Castle scored the final points of the game to make the final score 75–60 in favor of the Huskies. UConn's victory marked their second consecutive national championship, making them the first team to do so since Florida did so in 2006 and 2007 .
Then, it happened — UConn scored the first 25 points of the second half over a 7 minute, 41-second span, part of a 30-0 run that cratered the Illini’s hopes reaching their first Final Four ...
The NCAA Tournament streak UConn is putting together is pretty, pretty impressive, too. The defending national champions scored 30 straight points to power their way back to the Final Four on ...
Connecticut defeated Georgia Tech 82–73 to win their second national championship in as many tries. Emeka Okafor of Connecticut was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. As they had in 1999, Connecticut won their regional championship in Phoenix, Arizona. Two of the tournament's top seeds failed to make it past the opening weekend.
The 2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2004-05 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 4, 2005, at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri and featured the Chicago Regional Champion, overall #1-seed Illinois and Syracuse ...
But Illinois began a furious charge: at one point, they would hit seven consecutive shots from the floor to turn a fifteen-point lead back to four. Unfazed, North Carolina would push the lead back up to ten before a 10–0 run by the Illini tied the game at 65-65. Illinois would tie the game at 70–70 on a three by Luther Head.
The NCAA championship game was a very defensive contest, with UConn coming out on top 53–41 to win their third-ever national title and Butler scoring the fewest points in a championship game since 1949. The Bulldogs led at halftime 22–19, but suffered in the second half from poor shooting, making only 6 out of 37 shots in the second half.