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The 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.It determined the national champion for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and was contested by the Purdue Boilermakers from the Big Ten Conference and the UConn Huskies from the Big East Conference.
UConn emphatically won a second straight NCAA tournament on Monday night. The Huskies pulled away from Purdue in the second half on the way to a 75-60 win over the Boilermakers. The victory makes ...
The clash between UConn and Purdue is the rare national title game that actually pits college basketball’s two best teams. Either UConn or Purdue was atop the AP poll for more than half the ...
UConn left Donovan Clingan on the loneliest island, stuck deep in the paint to wrestle massive Purdue center Zach Edey. UConn had a much bigger concern than the 7-foot-4 man in the middle: Purdue ...
GLENDALE, Ariz. — All eyes will be on the two centers in Monday night's NCAA championship game as Purdue's 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and UConn's 7-2 Donovan Clingan match up, but it all starts with the ...
Stat to unpack. Purdue's 3-point shooting will be where the Boilermakers have an edge. Though UConn averages more made 3s per game (8.6 to Purdue's 8.3), the Boilers shoot almost 5% better from ...
However, UConn was also a defensively minded team, and held Purdue to only 13 first half points, including a ten-minute stretch with zero points. Purdue more than doubled its output in the second half, scoring 27 points, but UConn's offense also picked up, and the final score was 64-40 in favor of UConn.
Connecticut became the first Division I men’s college basketball team to win back-to-back championships since Florida 17 years ago, as the Huskies downed Purdue in the NCAA title game Monday.