NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game. The 2. 01. 4 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2.
With 15 points each from Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Moriah Jefferson, the UConn Huskies beat Notre Dame 63-53 to win their 10th national championship.
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion for the 2. NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 7, 2. AT& T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, between the East Regional Champions, seventh- seeded Connecticut, and the Midwest Regional Champions, eighth- seeded Kentucky. Connecticut got out to a quick start, leading by 1. Kentucky fought back, narrowing the gap to 3.
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Breanna Stewart wanted four national championships in her career with UConn's women's basketball team. South Florida's Courtney Williams likely wanted the same thing.
In the second half, Kentucky got within one point on several occasions, but never took the lead. Connecticut pulled away in the final minute, winning the game, 6. Overview[edit]The 2.
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game was played on April 7, 2. AT& T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It featured the East Regional Champions, seventh- seeded Connecticut (UConn) against the Midwest Regional Champions, eighth- seeded Kentucky. Although Connecticut won the 2.
UConn Ends Road Trip at Memphis on Wednesday. W. Basketball - 1/12/2016. The No. 1 UConn women's basketball team wraps up its three-game road trip in a showdown with. The 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and determined the national. The UConn women beat Vanguard 98-18 in their final preseason game of the season at Gampel Pavilion Sunday. The Huskies open the season Nov. 16 at Ohio State.
Kentucky the 2. 01. It was the first championship game since 1.
Kentucky participated in the NIT, losing in the first round, while UConn was ineligible for 2. APR violations). The 2. National Championship Game featured the highest combined seeds in NCAA history, surpassing 2. It was the first ever to not feature a number 1, a number 2, or a number 3 seed. It is the third National Championship Game not to feature a number 1 or a number 2 seed, with the other two being the 1. National Championship Game between number 3 Michigan and number 3 Seton Hall, in which Michigan won, 8.
National Championship Game between number 3 Connecticut and Butler in which Connecticut won, 5. Kentucky was considered the pre- game favorite.[2] The referees for the game were Joe De. Rosa, Verne Harris, and Doug Shows; the alternate was Mike Roberts.[4]Participants[edit]Kentucky[edit]With seven Mc. Donald's All- Americans on their roster, the Kentucky Wildcats were ranked first in the preseason AP poll. In non- conference play, they went 1. Michigan State, Baylor, and North Carolina. In Southeastern Conference (SEC) play, they went 1.
AP top 2. 5. They lost the finals of the SEC tournament to Florida.[2]Kentucky entered the 2. NCAA Tournament as an at- large selection, and were given the number 8 seed in the Midwest Region. They opened the 2. NCAA Tournament with a 5.
Kansas State.[5] In the next round of the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky handed Wichita State their only loss of the season, beating them 7. In the Sweet 1. 6, they knocked off the defending national champion, Louisville, 7. Elite 8.[7] In the Elite Eight, Aaron Harrison made a three- pointer with the score tied at 7. Michigan and advance to the 2.
Final Four after Nik Stauskas missed a half- court shot which would have sent the game to overtime.[8] In the Final Four, Kentucky faced Wisconsin. With the game tied 7. Andrew Harrison fouled Traevon Jackson in the act of shooting.
Jackson made two out of three free throws to take a 7. With 5. 7 seconds left, Aaron Harrison made a three- pointer that put Kentucky up 7. Jackson missed a last- second shot and Kentucky advanced to the National Championship Game.[9]Kentucky was the third number 8 seed to participate in the National Championship Game. In 1. 98. 5, Villanova beat number 1 Georgetown 6. National Championship Game. In 2. 01. 1, Butler lost to number 3 Connecticut 5. National Championship Game.[3] The Wildcats were the ninth team to appear in the title game despite being unranked in the final AP poll since the poll began in 1.
Connecticut[edit]The Connecticut Huskies were ranked number 1. AP poll and did not have any Mc. Donald's All- American selections on their roster. They started 9–0, rising to #1. American Athletic Conference (AAC). They ended up 1. 2–6 in conference play and lost to Louisville—who had defeated UConn by 3. AAC tournament finals 7.
Connecticut entered the 2. NCAA Tournament as an at- large selection and was given the number 7 seed in the East Region. In the second round of the tournament, Connecticut pulled away from St. Joseph's, beating them 8.
In the third round, Shabazz Napier scored 2. Villanova 7. 7–6. In the Sweet 1. 6, De. Andre Daniels scored 2. UConn to a 8. 1–7.
Iowa State to advance to the East Regional Finals.[1. In the Elite Eight, Napier's 2. Gary Harris's 2. 2 points and beat Michigan State 6.
Final Four.[1. 4] In the Final Four, Connecticut faced Florida, whom they had beaten 6. December 2, 2. 01. Gampel Pavilion on a Napier buzzer- beating shot. Florida jumped out to an early 1. UConn turned things around and upset number 1 Florida, 6. Florida's 3. 0- game winning streak. De. Andre Daniels had 2.
Carmelo Anthony of Syracuse had 3. Texas in the 2. 00. Final Four. Corliss Williamson did it twice for Arkansas, once in 1. Arizona, and once in 1.
North Carolina. Chris Webber of Michigan achieved the feat in 1. Kentucky.[1. 5])Connecticut was the first number 7 seed to reach the national title game.[3] Their 3. Louisville at end of the regular season is the largest defeat ever suffered by an eventual National Champion.[1.
Game summary[edit]AT& T Stadium, Arlington, TXAttendance: 7. Referees: Verne Harris, Doug Shows, Joe De. Rosa. Connecticut scored first, and got out to a quick start, in what USA Today described as "a physical, ugly game".[1. Ryan Boatright and Shabazz Napier combined to score 1. Napier scored five more points as Connecticut jumped out to a 3. Kentucky's James Young made a three pointer and then, Aaron Harrison followed up with the steal- and- dunk to cut the Connecticut lead to 3. The Wildcats switched to a zone on defense, which slowed down Connecticut's offensive attacks.[1.
Young and Harrison each made a three- pointer to cut the Connecticut lead to 3. Kentucky continued the comeback as Julius Randle and Marcus Lee each made baskets in the last minute of the first half to cut the Connecticut lead to 3. Connecticut got off to a slow start in the second half, hitting just one of its first ten shots.[1.
In the early minutes, Kentucky cut the lead to one several times, but failed to take the lead.[1. Connecticut built their lead to 4. Then, with 1. 0: 4. Young dribbled through three defenders and dunked the ball while being fouled in what was described as the best play of the game.[1. The Wildcats scored the next six, during which time Boatright turned his ankle on a routine pass but remained in the game, again cutting the lead to one point.[1. After Aaron Harrison missed an open three with 8: 1. After a few possessions during which neither team scored, Napier hit a three- pointer at the 6: 5.
Kentucky's momentum. On Kentucky's subsequent possession Julius Randle drove to the basket for a layup to cut the lead back to two, and on the next play Huskies forward Niels Giffey responded with another three- point shot to put the Huskies back up by 5. At the 2: 4. 5 mark, De. Andre Daniels hit a short shot to put the Huskies up 5.
With just under a minute to go and Kentucky down four, they elected not to foul. Near the end of the shot clock, Napier located an open Lasan Kromah who was then fouled as he attempted a short shot. After Kromah, who had the lowest free throw percentage of the Huskies on the court at 6. Aaron Harrison missed a three pointer and Connecticut dribbled out the clock for a 6.
After the game, Kentucky coach John Calipari remarked, "We had our chances to win. We're missing shots, we're missing free throws."[1. The Huskies were only tied at 2- 2 and 6- 6 at the beginning of the game and never trailed en route to their fourth National Title.
The school is now 4–0 in National Championship Games. The American Athletic Conference, in its first year of existence, claimed its first title.
Connecticut became the lowest seed to win the tournament since Villanova beat Georgetown in 1. Coach Kevin Ollie became the first coach to win the championship in his first tournament appearance since Steve Fisher did it in 1. The second- year coach credited longtime UConn coach Jim Calhoun for the victory saying "Coach Calhoun, the greatest coach ever.
He paved the way we just walked through it."[1. Giffey, Napier, and Tyler Olander, who had been on UConn's 2. NCAA Division I men's basketball history to win national titles as freshmen and seniors.[2. Napier led Connecticut with 2. He also had three assists. Ryan Boatright scored 1.
Young was Kentucky's top scorer with 2. Randle had 1. 0 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assist.[1.
Napier was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four for both his offense and defense (he held Aaron Harrison to 7 points).[1. As a team Connecticut was 1. Kentucky was 1. 3 of 2. Connecticut became the first team to make all their attempts in a title game, and finished the tournament with a 8. That surpassed St. John's 8. 7. 0% in 1.
NCAA history.[1. 0][2. The announced attendance for the game was 7. NCAA record for a Tournament Final.[1. After UConn's win in the men's division, the following night their women's team beat Notre Dame for a sweep of both the men's and women's Division I basketball championships. UConn also accomplished this sweep in 2. Broadcast[edit]The Championship Game was broadcast in the United States by CBS. Jim Nantz was the play- by- play man with Greg Anthony and Steve Kerr providing on- court commentary.[2.
Greg Gumbel and Ernie Johnson Jr. Charles Barkley, Seth Davis, Grant Hill, Clark Kellogg, and Kenny Smith provided studio commentary.[2. ESPN International owned the broadcast rights outside the United States. Dan Shulman was the play- by- play announcer for the international audience, with Dick Vitale providing commentary.[2. The broadcast averaged 2.
Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One. The Championship Game was streamed live for free on NCAA.
References[edit]^Chappell, Bill (April 7, 2. Men's NCAA Basketball Final Pits UConn Against Kentucky".
NPR. Retrieved April 7, 2. Parrish, Gary (April 6, 2. It's UK's Fab Five vs. Connecticut for college basketball's title".
Connecticut Huskies men's basketball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Connecticut Huskies.
University. University of Connecticut. First season. 19. All- time record. Conference. The American.
Location. Storrs, CTHead coach. Kevin Ollie (4th year)Arena. Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, XL Center(Capacity: 1. Nickname. Huskies.
Colors. Navy and White Uniforms. NCAA Tournament champions.
NCAA Tournament Final Four. NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen. NCAA Tournament Round of 3.
NCAA Tournament appearances. NCAAConference tournament champions. Conference regular season champions. The Connecticut Huskies men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball team of the University of Connecticut, in Storrs, Connecticut.
They currently play in the American Athletic Conference (The American). UConn is one of the most successful programs in college basketball. The Huskies have won 4 NCAA Tournament Championships (1. The Huskies have also won seven Big East Tournament Championships and ten Big East regular season titles.
Numerous players have gone on to achieve professional success after their time at UConn, including Cliff Robinson, Ray Allen, Richard Hamilton, Kemba Walker, Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor, Caron Butler, Jeremy Lamb, Andre Drummond, Shabazz Napier, and Rudy Gay. The Huskies have participated in 5 NCAA Final Fours (tied for 1. NCAA tournament 3.
The team has been a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament 5 times, most recently in 2. The team won the 2. NCAA Championship.
History[edit]Early History[edit]Men's basketball at UConn began in 1. Connecticut Agricultural College against Windham High School in January of that year. The college team won, and by 1. Hugh Greer Era[edit]After graduating from the Connecticut Agricultural College, former player Hugh Greer returned to his alma mater as a freshman coach. He was later named head coach of the Huskies six games into the 1. Greer led Connecticut to a perfect 1.
Posting a record of 1. UConn won twelve Yankee Conference titles under Greer in 1.
Greer also led UConn to its first seven NCAA berths and one NIT appearance while compiling an overall head coaching record of 2. Greer died of a heart attack in 1.
He was replaced by George Wigton who led them to the NCAA tournament. UConn men's basketball was a regional power under Greer, winning eighteen Yankee Conference championships between 1. Yankee Conference dropped support of basketball—including twelve by Greer. Jim Calhoun Era[edit]Throughout the 1. Connecticut remained a regional power and earned multiple NCAA tournament berths. In 1. 97. 9, UConn became one of the seven founding schools of the Big East Conference, which was created to focus on basketball. Prior to the 1. 98.
UConn hired Northeastern head coach Jim Calhoun to take over the program. Calhoun's first team finished the season with a record of 9–1. In 1. 98. 8, the team showed significant improvement and gained a berth in the National Invitation Tournament. UConn went on a run in the tournament and defeated Ohio State 7. Madison Square Garden to win the NIT, the school's first national basketball title. The 1. 99. 0 "Dream Season" would bring UConn basketball back to the national stage.
Led by Chris Smith, Nadav Henefeld, Scott Burrell, Tate George, and John Gwynn, UConn went from unranked in the preseason to winning the Big East Regular Season and Tournament Championships, both for the first time. Gampel Pavilion, the program's new on- campus home. In the NCAA Tournament the Huskies garnered a #1 seed in the East Region, but trailed Clemson 7. Sweet 1. 6. Burrell's full- court pass found Tate George on the far baseline. George spun, fired, and hit a buzzer- beater that is known in Connecticut simply as "The Shot". They would be eliminated on a buzzer- beater 2 days later by Duke, losing in overtime 7.
UConn continued to rise as a national program throughout the 1. Big East Regular Season and three more Big East Tournament Championships, as well as reaching several regional finals. The Final Four still eluded Calhoun and the program until the 1. NCAA Tournament. With Richard "Rip" Hamilton leading the way, they claimed the program's first national title that same year. Calhoun's teams would go on to win two more national championships during his tenure at UConn. Calhoun was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2. September 2. 01. 2.
After the breakup of the old Big East in 2. UConn remained as a member of the American Athletic Conference, the legal successor to the original conference. It is therefore the only charter member of the original Big East still playing in that conference.
Kevin Ollie Era[edit]Kevin Ollie was hired as UConn's men's basketball coach shortly after Calhoun's retirement. During his first season, the Huskies record was 2. That year the Huskies were banned from postseason play by the NCAA because of a low APR score in 2.
In Ollie's second season, the team made the NCAA tournament. On March 3. 0, 2. Ollie became the first UConn coach other than Jim Calhoun to lead the Huskies to a Final Four. They won the Men's NCAA tournament on April 7, 2. University of Kentucky 6.
His team was the first #7 seed to ever win the NCAA tournament. National Championships[edit]1. NCAA Title[edit].
UConn won both the Big East and NCAA National Championships in 2. The Huskies were the top seed in the West region, and a win over Gonzaga in the regional final sent UConn to Tropicana Field for the program's first Final Four appearance.
They defeated Ohio State 6. Duke in the final. Despite having been ranked #1 for half of the year, the Huskies entered the national championship game as 9- point underdogs. UConn won their first national title with a 7. Hamilton was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. NCAA Title[edit]In 2. Huskies returned to the Final Four.
Once again they faced Duke, this time in the National Semifinal, and used a late run to beat the Blue Devils 7. Two nights later, led by Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon, Connecticut won their second national title with an 8. Georgia Tech. Okafor was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. One day later the UConn women's basketball team also won a national title, making UConn the first and only school in NCAA Division I history to have its men's and women's basketball programs win a national championship in the same season. NCAA Title[edit]The 2. Huskies won eleven straight games in postseason play, the final six of which resulted in the program's third national championship.
On April 4, 2. 01. Butler Bulldogs, 5. UConn junior Kemba Walker was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Many consider UConn's win in the Championship Game to be a great defensive performance, as the Huskies held Butler to only 1.
An analysis by Sports Illustrated columnist Luke Winn credited the Huskies' defense by demonstrating, for instance, that they blocked or altered a staggering 2. Butler's shots - compared to just 3. Pittsburgh and 1. VCU in earlier rounds.[3] The 5. Connecticut was, in turn, the lowest point total by a winning team in a championship game since 1. NCAA Title[edit]. UConn National Championship teams at the White House.
In 2. 01. 4 led by American Athletic Conference Player of the Year Shabazz Napier, UConn became the first #7 seed to win the NCAA Championship, getting past No. Florida, No. 2 seed Villanova, No.
Iowa State, and No. Michigan State, before defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 6. Arlington, Texas.
UConn is undefeated in the state of Texas in the Final Four (6- 0). As in 2. 00. 4, the UConn women's basketball team also won a national title, making UConn the first and only school in NCAA Division I history to have its men's and women's basketball programs win a national championship in the same season twice. Postseason[edit]NCAA tournament results[edit]The Huskies have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 3. Their combined record is 5.
They have been to five Final Fours and are four time National Champions (1. Year. Seed. Round. Opponent. Result. Sweet Sixteen. St. John's. L 5. 2–6.
First Round. Navy. L 8. 0–8. 51. 95. First Round. Sweet Sixteen. Regional 3rd Place Game. Manhattan. Temple. Dartmouth. W 8. 4–7. L 5. 9–6. 5L 6.
First Round. Syracuse. L 7. 6–8. 21. 95. First Round. Dartmouth. L 6. 4–7. 51. 95.
First Round. Boston University. L 5. 8–6. 01. 96. First Round. NYUL 5. First Round. West Virginia. L 7. 1–7. 71. 96.
First Round. Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight. Temple. Princeton. Duke. W 5. W 5. 2–5. 0L 5. First Round. Saint Joseph's. L 6. 1–6. 71. 96. First Round. Boston College.
L 4. 2–4. 81. 97. First Round. Sweet Sixteen. Hofstra. Rutgers. W 8. 0–7. 9OTL 7. Second Round#4 Syracuse. L 8. 1–8. 91. 99. First Round. Second Round.
Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight#1. Boston University#9 California#5 Clemson#3 Duke.
W 7. 6–5. 2W 7. W 7. 1–7. 0L 7. OT1. 99. 1#1. 1First Round. Second Round. Sweet Sixteen#6 LSU#1. Xavier#2 Duke. W 7. W 6. 6–5. 0L 6. First Round. Second Round#8 Nebraska#1 Ohio State.
W 8. 6–6. 5L 5. First Round. Second Round. Sweet Sixteen#1. 5 Rider#1. George Washington#3 Florida. W 6. 4–4. 6W 7. L 6. 0–6. 9OT1. First Round. Second Round.
Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight#1. Chattanooga#7 Cincinnati#3 Maryland#1 UCLAW 1. W 9. 6–9. 1W 9. L 9. 6–1. 02. 19. First Round. Second Round. Sweet Sixteen#1. 6 Colgate#9 Eastern Michigan#5 Mississippi State. W 6. 8–5. 9W 9.
L 5. 5–6. 01. 99. First Round. Second Round. Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight#1. Fairleigh Dickinson#7 Indiana#1. Washington#1 North Carolina. W 9. 3–8. 5W 7. W 7. 5–7. 4L 6.
First Round. Second Round. Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight. Final Four. National Championship#1. UTSA#9 New Mexico#5 Iowa#1. Gonzaga#4 Ohio State#1 Duke.
W 9. 1–6. 6W 7. W 7. 8–6. 8W 6. W 6. 4–5. 8W 7. First Round. Second Round#1. Utah State#4 Tennessee.
W 7. 5–6. 7L 5. First Round. Second Round.
Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight#1. Hampton#7 NC State#1. Southern Illinois#1 Maryland. W 7. 8–6. 7W 7.
W 7. 1–5. 9L 8. First Round. Second Round. Sweet Sixteen#1. 2 BYU#4 Stanford#1 Texas.
W 5. 8–5. 3W 8. L 7. 8–8. 22. 00. First Round. Second Round.