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March Madness was incredible, and it all culminates tonight in the National Championship game. Our very own San Diego State has defied the odds and will ...

That will play into the Aztec’s favor if it ends up being the case. On the “home” side of things, San Diego State has been absolutely magical during the tournament. The Huskies have blown away the competition during the tournament, winning every game by at least 13 points and beating three of the five teams by over 20 points.

The 2023 NCAA Tournament Championship Game has been finalized, and after a wild Saturday in the Final Four, it will be No. 4 UConn squaring off against No.

The 2023 Aztecs are just the third team ever to win back-to-back NCAA Tournament games by exactly one point (2018 Loyola, 1981 Saint Josephs) and just the second team ever to win back-to-back tournament games in the final two seconds. Check out the TV and streaming information for the 2023 NCAA Tournament Championship Game between No. The idea of 1999 sounded futuristic once, and then still felt recent, but here in 2023 it's becoming a fair starting point for modern history era of college basketball. Any coach will boast about their league being "the best in the country," but Dan Hurley's been able to speak to it from a different perspective given UConn's results this year. [not to call timeout](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/2023-final-four-why-san-diego-state-coach-brian-dutcher-didnt-call-timeout-before-dramatic-buzzer-beater/) and let his players decide the national semifinal will remain a fascinating angle to the final moments of the Aztecs' epic buzzer-beater over FAU on Saturday night. History has played a significant role in the blue-blood discussion. Hurley has pointed out, however, that UConn's setback came in the grind of a tough Big East, where the Huskies finished fourth with a 13-7 league record. UConn's charge is for the restoration of glory, yes, but more specifically the journey it's taken to build to this point and the upperclassmen who have been a part of it. But those are just a few of the many layers to this national championship. Back-to-back one-point wins in the Elite Eight and Final Four also put San Diego State in exclusive company among notable clutch performances in tournament history. 5 San Diego State on Monday night in Houston (9:20 p.m., CBS) with one of those teams cutting down the nets. Each team has its own unique motivations, too, like the five San Diego State players who won 30 games and were trending towards a top-two seed prior to the

Sunday's Iowa-LSU game drew double last year's audience for the championship.

Women’s title games in recent years—such as last year, when 4.85 million watched [South Carolina beat UConn](https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-11649038609?mod=article_inline)—have been shown on Disney’s ESPN, which is in fewer homes than broadcast stations. [102-85 win over Iowa](https://www.wsj.com/articles/lsu-iowa-ncaa-womens-basketball-title-3be3f3dd?mod=article_inline), in a title game shown on Walt Disney Co. [30% off eBay coupon](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/ebay)

Be smart: The viewership numbers show that women's sports can compete with major sporting events from the major men's leagues. The NBA Finals averaged 9.89 ...

That deal [expires](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-espn-ncaa/espn-ncaa-extend-deal-through-2023-24-idUSTRE7BE2FM20111215)in the 2023-2024 season. [the women's basketball tournament](https://www.sportico.com/leagues/basketball/2022/womens-tournament-march-madness-branding-tv-1234669526/). [Women's sports commanding bigger rights deals](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/womens-sports-commanding-bigger-rights-deals) [noted](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/20/womens-sports-commanding-bigger-rights-deals). The viewership success shows there's ample interest in women's sports, especially if they're given a bigger platform. [notes](https://twitter.com/_emcaron/status/1643016355338231811).

The average 9.9 million viewers for Louisiana State topping Iowa was significantly more than the previous record of 5.7 million for an N.C.A.A. women's ...

estimates that the women’s tournament could be worth at least $85 million in 2025, compared with just $6 million in ESPN’s current agreement. [broke the previous record by millions](https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/womens-final-four-ratings-history-espn/) — 5.68 million for the 2002 Connecticut vs. Charlie Baker, the association’s new president, suggested over the weekend that the women’s tournament could get its own deal next year. Leaders in women’s basketball have long fought for maximizing the tournament’s TV rights as a way to help a steep imbalance with the men's game. Peak viewership hovered around 12.6 million views and overall viewership was about double the viewership of the championship game last year. The game was, for the first time in decades, on ABC, ESPN’s parent network, as Louisiana State’s rebounding star Angel Reese and Iowa’s dazzling 3-point shooter Caitlin Clark put on a show. women’s tournament game, achieved in 2002 when Connecticut won the title. Oklahoma championship, when the Huskies were led by Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Asjha Jones, Tamika Williams and Diana Taurasi. [viewership was already up 42 percent](https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/03/ncaa-womens-tournament-ratings-record-viewership-elite-eight-sweet-16-espn/) compared with last year’s tournament. “It’s about time women’s basketball gets this kind of viewership, and it can only go up.” “The game is evolving in such a great way. I’m glad you’re tuning in now, but keep it up.”

Here are three players that are worth a look if Monday night's perceived mismatch has you hunting for additional ways to wager on the game.

Dan Hurley's UConn Huskies will be going for the fifth national championship in program history, while San Diego State is chasing its first title in program ...

[Syracuse](https://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/syracuse-orange-team) (now in [ACC](https://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/acc)) in 1996. UConn betting preview: Big, sharp bets](https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/2023-ncaa-championship-game-sdsu-vs-uconn-betting-preview-big-sharp-bets) [Betting trends for 2023 National championship game featuring SDSU-UConn](https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/2023-march-madness-odds-national-championship-trends) [UConn vs. With a win, the Aztecs would be first team from California to win the national title since the Bruins did so in 1995. ET)](https://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament-final-san-diego-state-aztecs-vs-uconn-huskies-apr-03-2023-game-boxscore-245495) With a win, the Aztecs would be first 5-seed to win the national championship in NCAA Tournament history. 1: This will be the first national title game to feature a 4-seed (UConn) and a 5-seed (San Diego State). The Huskies won their first title in 1999, and no other team has won more national titles since then. The last Big East team to make the title game and lose was 6-6: Favorites (UConn) are 6-6 ATS and 8-4 straight up (SU) in the national championship game since 2010. Since UConn’s first national championship in 1999, Big East teams are 7-0 ATS and 7-0 SU when making the title game. If SDSU wins, that would be the second-longest pre-tournament odds of any national champion behind UConn in 2014 (95-1). 5-0: UConn is a perfect 5-0 against the spread (ATS) in this year's NCAA Tournament.

The University of Connecticut Huskies overpowered the San Diego State Aztecs 76-59 to win the men's NCAA collegiate basketball crown for the fifth time.

"They buried us before the season, and they buried us in the mid-point — we weren't ranked going into the year, so we had a chip on our shoulder," Hurley said. But UConn pulled away once more to re-establish a double-digit lead in the final minutes and ultimately cruised to victory. San Diego did manage to get within five points late in the game, cutting the Huskies lead to 60-55 to raise hopes of another comeback.

UConn's Tristen Newton is lifted in the postgame celebrations after the Huskies won the NCAA Tournament final on Monday, April 3. Brynn Anderson/AP.

All of UConn’s titles have come since 1999 with the most recent before Monday occurring in 2014. “We weren’t ranked going into the year so we had the chip on our shoulder,” UConn head coach Dan Hurley told game broadcaster CBS. If it were not for them I would not be here right now,” Sanogo told CBS.

The 2023 NCAA men's tournament came to a close on Monday night, with the UConn Huskies capping off a dominant run with a 76-59 victory over the San Diego…

2 seeds from a trip to the Final Four in the process. The second round then claimed No. 2 seed Texas as the last team standing from the top-two seed lines. A tip of the cap to No. 1 and No. The Cinderella story ended two days later when Florida Atlantic sent them packing, but it was just the second time in tournament history that a No. 3 seed Kansas State to claim the East Region title. 1 seeds in the Elite Eight, it was a March Madness for the books. They shot just 5-of-26 from beyond the arc and turned it over 16 times en route to a 63-58 upset for the Knights. 1 seed Purdue, which was the 25th game overall in this year's NCAA tournament. "If you take NCAA men's basketball knowledge into the formula, the odds of picking a perfect bracket [can be](https://www.insidescience.org/news/quantum-leap-basketball-bracketology) as low as 1 in 28 billion." Despite the David vs.

With the UConn Huskies claiming the title, "One Shining Moment" returned to recap what was yet again an enthralling 2023 men's NCAA Tournament.

No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson upsetting No. 5 San Diego State 76-59](/news/sports/uconn-squares-off-against-san-diego-state-for-ncaa-national-championship) in the national championship game on Monday, which capped off another year of dramatic upsets and thrilling finishes.

UConn's most recent championship prior to Monday's victory was in 2014, when the Huskies won the NCAA Tournament as a No. 7 seed. Only their first title came as ...

This was Kevin Ollie's second season as coach and the Huskies' first as a member of the [American](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/AMER/american-eagles/) Athletic Conference. [Villanova's](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/NOVA/villanova-wildcats/) 1985 champion was seeded lower. 11 seed [VCU](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/VCU/vcu-rams/) went from the First Four to the Final Four in the first year of the First Four. The Huskies then defeated [Georgia Tech](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/GATECH/georgia-tech-yellow-jackets/) in the final, avenging a loss to the Yellow Jackets earlier in the season. [NBA](/nba/). [NCAA Tournament](/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/) as a No. 1 team in the AP poll for ten consecutive weeks in the middle of the season before finishing the regular season at No. The Huskies started the regular 14-0, then lost six of their next eight games to start Big East play, but followed that with nine wins out of their next ten before losing in the semifinal of the Big East Tournament. They are only the third team since expansion to win the title without defeating a team seeded higher than third. [UConn](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UCONN/connecticut-huskies/) won the [2023 NCAA Tournament ](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-championship-uconn-wins-fifth-national-title-capping-dominant-march-madness-with-rout-of-san-diego-state/live/)on Monday night, defeating [San Diego State](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/SDGST/san-diego-state-aztecs/) 76-59. The first of the Huskies championship and still the best team to win one for UConn. No.

UConn is the men's champ after completing one of the most dominant March Madness runs in history. And we're still thinking about the wild women's final ...

(Play was stopped while everybody waited for LSU to shoot a free throw.) Clark spent the last quarter of the game matador-ing away from steal attempts, knowing she couldn’t risk getting disqualified. Czinano was particularly important for Iowa in the paint and represented Iowa’s only hope of going head-to-head with LSU’s powerful post players; Czinano’s backup, Addison O’Grady, played a season-high 18 minutes. You could see the confidence and exuberance returning to her after one of the coldest shooting streaks of her life had exiled her to the bench; that energy flowed through her and into her teammates. All of these people need to watch women’s college basketball, where officials yearn to take over games and force players to adhere to their own personal opinions about how players should behave on the court. Over the course of March Madness, the Iowa guard set the record for the most points in an NCAA tournament, most assists in a women’s NCAA tournament, most 3s in an NCAA tournament, and most taunts in an NCAA tournament, hitting her unfortunate opponents with John Cena’s “You can’t see me” move. She was their most consistent shooter—arguably their only consistent shooter—and peaked when she drilled seven 3s in a game against Florida. There was a brief moment of drama when San Diego State cut the deficit to five points in the second half—I almost thought the Aztecs were going to cover the seven-point spread—but this was UConn’s championship, and it had been clear that it was UConn’s championship to win for most of the past two weeks. But the Aztecs shot worse than 40 percent in three of their six tourney games, and their 32.2 percent on Monday night wasn’t even their worst shooting performance in the past month: They shot 20-for-63 (31.7 percent) in the Mountain West championship game against Utah State. They trailed in the second half of a game only once, and for about 40 seconds, in the entire tournament; their average margin of victory was 20 points. There’s nothing more draining than getting your hopes up every single time a shot goes in the air and watching it clang away. The Huskies’ shining moment was a solid month of squeezing the life out of their opposition. And as a fan of mid-major hoops, I was pulling for them throughout their improbable run to the national championship game.

Here is a complete list of every player to be the Final Four Most Outstanding Player since the first NCAA tournament in 1939. This includes every school and ...

[1973 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-18/1973-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). [1993 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-14/1993-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). [2005 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-07/2005-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). [1952 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-27/1952-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article) with 141 total points over four games. [NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-15/1945-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article) with 65 points, 22 of which came in the title game against NYU. [1989 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-12/1989-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article), averaging 30.7 points per game. [1940 NCAA tournament](https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-05-27/1940-ncaa-tournament-bracket-scores-stats-records?utm_campaign=inline-article). Louisville's Pervis Ellison took home the honor in 1986, just the second freshman to do so at that point — Arnie Ferrin (Utah, 1944). Hogue erupted for 36 points (12-of-18-shooting) and 19 rebounds in the national semifinals against UCLA. In the national semifinals against Kansas, Dixon scored a game-high 33 points (10-of-18 shooting) while adding three rebounds, two assists and two steals. N/A He finished with 20 points (7-of-14 shooting), nine rebounds and four assists in the national semifinals against Villanova.

The 'One Shining Moment' montage includes the best moments from what was a wild and memorable 2023 NCAA Tournament.

[Kansas](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/KANSAS/kansas-jayhawks/)' State's epic overtime Sweet 16 win against Michigan State in Madison Square Garden. Celebrate this historic win at the end of a wild tournament with UConn Championship Gear. Pegues hitting the 3-pointer off a turnover in the game's final seconds. [Fairleigh Dickinson's](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/FDU/fairleigh-dickinson-knights/)epic win against top-seeded [Purdue](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/PURDUE/purdue-boilermakers/)on a Friday night in the first round. [Princeton](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/PRINCE/princeton-tigers/)after taking down [Arizona](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/ARIZ/arizona-wildcats/)in the rare 15-over-2 upset. [Furman](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/FURMAN/furman-paladins/)knocking off [Virginia](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UVA/virginia-cavaliers/)on the first Thursday of the tournament with J.P.

UConn's 76-59 victory ended a dominant tournament run in which it won every game by double figures.

He said he “sucked” when he first started coaching in high school, and revealed that he had taken up painting at the suggestion of his wife, while acknowledging that he is no Picasso. 9 — to play in the championship game. “We knew we were the best team in the tournament going in, and we just had to play like it.” “It was that March feeling — wow, this is happening,” said Trammell, whose free throw with 1.2 seconds left had beaten Creighton in the South Regional final. After Joey Calcaterra buried a 3-pointer to put Connecticut ahead, 56-41, the Aztecs mustered a final charge. “As a basketball player, if you don’t walk in there and feel inspired by that, I don’t know what’s going to inspire you.” Hurley convened his three cornerstones — Sanogo, Jackson and Hawkins — and promised them he would put a better roster around them, dotted with perimeter shooters who wouldn’t shrink in big moments. Since the last title nine years ago, Kevin Ollie, a former Husky himself, was fired and then filed suit to win back salary, In their march to the national championship, they won their six tournament games by 24, 15, 23, 28, 13 and 17 points. San Diego State, which had never before advanced past the round of 16, was trying to replicate what Kansas did a year ago, rallying from 15 points down in the second half to claim a championship. When the final buzzer sounded, Newton jumped off the edge of the elevated court and into the arms of family members wearing his No. The Huskies walked into soiled hotel rooms when they arrived in Las Vegas for their first games in the N.C.A.A.

Who can forget FAU, Fairleigh Dickinson over Purdue or Markquis Nowell taking over Madison Square Garden? Those are the moments that we'll remember.

The title game just won't be one of them. The 73 years young coach was movin' and groovin’ in the Hurricanes' locker room after every win. Tom Izzo conjured up his old March magic, leading Michigan State to a second-round win over Marquette, which had come into the tournament as one of the hottest teams in the country. Nowell had an NCAA single-game record 19 assists, the best of which was his no-look lob to Keyontae Johnson for an alley-oop with less than a minute left in regulation. Dutcher, who toiled as an assistant for 28 years before becoming the head coach at San Diego State six years ago, got his first win in the NCAA tournament. We should have known then that this was going to be the year of upsets and upstarts. Making the Owls’ run even more impressive, they’d never even won a tournament game before this year! “The state of basketball is in good shape right now,” San Diego State coach Brian Dutcher said after the championship game. Now it’s got a permanent place in national lore, only the The first 62 games offered all kinds of fun and that, rather than this atrocity, should be the lasting memory of this year’s men’s tournament. Most people had never heard of the small, private school in New Jersey before last month. It was the lowest-scoring title game since 2015, and UConn wouldn’t have cracked 70 points if not for that flurry of free throws in the final 90 seconds.

UConn completed an impressive stretch during the NCAA Tournament with a 76-59 win vs. San Diego State.

It's been difficult to put a pin in UConn as a blue blood of the sport even in the midst of obvious success, perhaps because of the coaching turnover in recent years. [Saint Mary's](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/MARYCA/saint-marys-gaels/)70-55 [Arkansas](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/ARK/arkansas-razorbacks/)88-65 [Miami](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/MIAMI/miami-fla-hurricanes/)72-59 [Indiana](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/IND/indiana-hoosiers/) to win every game by at least 13 points, as the Hoosiers only had five games in that title run. [being named the Most Outstanding Player](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-championship-adama-sanogo-joins-place-among-uconn-legends-after-earning-most-outstanding-player-honors/) of the Final Four. The Huskies have announced their return to the [top of the sport](https://www.cbssports.com/) with a win that caps a historic tournament run, with plenty of ways to consider this 2023 title season as one of the best in the modern era. Only [UCLA](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UCLA/ucla-bruins/) (11), [Kentucky](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UK/kentucky-wildcats/) (8) and [North Carolina](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UNC/north-carolina-tar-heels/) (6) have more titles than the Huskies, and all of those titles have been won in a shorter window than any of those other programs in the top six. That 2011 UConn team is also the last team to start the season unranked in the preseason AP Top 25 poll and finish as national champions. The Big East, Hurley argues, is the toughest conference in the country and the splits between UConn's conference record (13-7) and non-conference record (17-0) at least speaks to something unique about this Huskies' squad. Dan Hurley made a comment that the Huskies' only struggles this season, a 2-6 run from late December to late January, came when they started Big East play. Each of the four players ahead of him were all the leading scorers, like Sanogo, for a national championship team. This was a program that lost its footing in the national landscape for a few years, but has steadied under Dan Hurley and now he and this 2023 team get to claim their own stake to the title-winning history of UConn basketball. The defense even got better as the tournament wore on, as no team from the Sweet 16 on shot better than [Gonzaga's](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/GONZAG/gonzaga-bulldogs/) 33.3% in the Elite Eight.

UConn held San Diego State without a basket for 11 minutes in the first half and held on when the Aztecs ratcheted up the defensive pressure, winning its fifth ...

San Diego State rallied from deficits of eight or more points to win its previous three games and seemed to rattle the Huskies by picking up their defensive pressure. UConn's Jordan Hawkins followed the turnover with a 3-pointer that put the Huskies up 26-14. UConn responded with another dominating stretch, pushing the lead until it had a sixth straight double-digit win in the NCAA Tournament. [UConn](https://www.spin.ph/tag/ncaa-basketball) had its way with [San Diego State](https://www.spin.ph/tag/ncaa-basketball) in a dominating first half, threatening to turn the [national championship game](https://www.spin.ph/tag/ncaa-basketball) into a monumental rout. San Diego State (32-7) got back in it by getting in the Huskies' faces, trimming the lead to five with five minutes left. UConn held San Diego State without a basket for 11 minutes in the first half and held on when the Aztecs ratcheted up the defensive pressure, winning its fifth national championship with a 76-59 win on Monday night (Tuesday, Manila time).

One of the few sure things in an unpredictable March Madness was the Huskies' ability to rise above the chaos around them.

[hotel switch](https://www.thedailybeast.com/uconn-basketball-reportedly-arrived-to-vomit-filled-hotel-rooms-in-vegas) in Las Vegas because rooms were left in a grim state by the previous guests. It was only UConn’s fourth appearance in the national tournament since winning it in 2014 and the first occasion since 2016 that they progressed past the second round. [Fairleigh Dickinson ousted Purdue](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/17/fairleigh-dickinson-purdue-upset-ncaa-tournament-march-madness) in perhaps the biggest upset in March Madness history, a 16 seed bumping off a number 1. That’s just really the way my mind works.” He did, though, allow that the result was a “dream come true for all of us” – including his son, Andrew, a walk-on, who was in possession as the game ended. “Maybe I don’t do a great job kissing the media’s ass and presenting this image that’s incredibly likable but I am who I am. A tight deficit expanded to a baggy 16 points. He wears brown bead bracelets to keep him grounded, practices yoga and meditation, drinks mushroom coffee and lights [perfumed candles](https://www.ctpost.com/sports/article/A-day-with-UConn-s-Dan-Hurley-The-basketball-16253614.php) in his office, such as a fragrance called “confidence + freedom” which could easily have been named in honour of his players. [were even more busted](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/mar/20/ncaa-tournament-upsets-16-seeds-transfer-portal) than usual. “Being such an intense, fiery coach, people have always focused more on the sideline antics than my total body of work over the course of my career,” growled Hurley, who led Rhode Island to two March Madness appearances. “The amount of missed layups … Not that the joy was unconfined. Nothing – not dirty hotel rooms, dodgy calamari, a bus burglary or one of college basketball’s most vaunted defenses – was going to deny Connecticut.

They dominated throughout the tournament with one of the most impressive runs March Madness history to pick up the program's fifth national men's basketball ...

"But we ran into too good of a team." This was a team built strictly for 2023 - replenished by Hurley, who went to the transfer portal to find more outside shooting after back-to-back first-round exits in the tournament. But a team built on defense finished the game only shooting 32% from the floor. I think there were people in the stands that thought, 'Hey, they're capable of doing it again,' and we were," Dutcher said. "We knew the level that we could play at, even through those dark times." Sanogo averaged 19.7 points and 9.8 rebounds over UConn's six-game cruise through the tournament. 4 for this Final Four full of underdogs, set the stage for this win over an 11:07 stretch in the first half during which the Aztecs didn't make a basket. Be kind," Nantz said as part of his final sign-off from the Final Four. One of the Fab Five, current Wolverines coach Juwan Howard, was there to console his former coach. They won those six games by an average of an even 20 points, only a fraction less than what North Carolina did in sweeping to the title in 2009. But Jordan Hawkins (16 points), - whose cousin, Angel Reese, won MOP honors the night before to help "It's absolutely amazing that we both get this opportunity," Hawkins said.

UConn secured their fifth NCAA Division title on the back of double-doubles from Adama Sanogo and Tr...

We're disappointed in the loss, but there's a brotherhood in the locker room that will never be divided by a margin of victory or not winning at all. I've just got so much admiration for how they play and their coach, he's one of the best coaches in the country." We had to be at our best to win the game. It's just great to come through on promises made to these players and the university. We weren't at our best. "It's part of the programme, we sold the vision – I sold the vision to the university that I could put together a special group of people, a coaching staff, and unbelievable players like this, so it feels great to come through.

The Huskies took advantage of a SDSU scoring drought in the first half to build a lead they wouldn't relinquish.

Only UCLA, Kentucky and North Carolina have won more national championships than the Huskies after they won the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

It's won a national title in the '90s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. Celebrate this historic win at the end of a wild tournament with UConn Championship Gear. The drought lasted 11 minutes, and it was ultimately what did in the Aztecs. "But I just feel like my career in coaching, even prior to this, I think most coaches — maybe I don't do a great job kissing the media's ass and presenting and this image that's incredibly likable, but I am who I am. But when Hurley went to the postgame press conference, he talked himself into a quote that was shared widely then and has only become more prominent since. The man in the middle from Mali just completed one of the best six-game runs by a player ever — doing so while observing Ramadan and fasting. And [Indiana](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/IND/indiana-hoosiers/). UConn trailed for a total of just 5:22 in their last four games of the NCAA Tournament. [Duke](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/DUKE/duke-blue-devils/). At the center of the demolition for every game was Sanogo (17 points, 10 rebounds). UConn now has [five national titles in its history](https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/uconn-wins-2023-ncaa-championship-ranking-the-huskies-five-national-title-teams/), all of them since 1999. He grabbed the loose ball as time expired and clutched it in his grasp.

UConn topped off an impressive March Madness run on Monday night, clamping down early and breaking it open late to bring home their fifth national title.

Unable to shoot over, or go around, this tall, long UConn team, they missed 14 straight shots from the floor. But Jordan Hawkins (16 points) answered with a three to trigger a 9-0 run and the only drama left was whether UConn would go six for six with double-digit wins. UConn set the stage for their win during an 11:07 stretch in the first half during which the Aztecs didn’t make a single basket.

Lawyers who represented plaintiffs when Supreme Court unanimously ruled against NCAA are seeking millions in damages for college athletes.

McCarrell was deprived of receiving Academic Achievement Awards that she would have earned each year that she attended Oregon and the first two years that she attended Auburn,” the suit alleges. The suit says the plaintiffs “are informed and believe that there are several thousand” athletes who would be covered. Berman and Kessler also are leading the case already pending before Wilken that seeks to build on the Alston case in a different way. Based primarily on the dollar-value limits listed in the NCAA Division I rulebook, Wilken determined their maximum cash value to be $5,980. Those awards are the items given for winning championships or participating in bowl games, which have provided athletes with gift cards and and/or an array of merchandise. That case not only asks that the NCAA be prevented from having association-wide rules that “restrict the amount of name, image, and likeness compensation available” to athletes but also seeks unspecified damages based on the share of television-rights money and the social media earnings it claims athletes would have received if the NCAA’s current limits on NIL compensation had not existed. It is connected directly to Wilken’s injunction in the Alston case. The case filed Tuesday also seeks to be a class action. The NCAA and a group of 11 conferences settled the damages portion for $208.7 million. We have yet to find members of Congress who don't worry about the athletes as the victims of the exploitation. Tuesday’s suit is the fifth antitrust case against the NCAA that has been led or co-led by the Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP. district court judge in March 2019 and unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court a little more than two years later.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was sued in California federal court on Tuesday in a proposed class action that alleges thousands of ...

Division I is the top level of college sports in the United States, including big money makers football and basketball as well as many other sports. The case is Hubbard et al v. National Collegiate Athletic Association et al, U.S. [the complaint](https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmpjkbzzzvr/Hubbard%20v.%20NCAA%20-%20N.D.%20CA%20-%202023-04-04.pdf) against the NCAA, which is the governing body for U.S. More than 50 schools have since started to offer those payments. The lawsuit alleged an unlawful conspiracy to bar cash awards for academic success.

The firms that won the Alston case are now filing an antitrust suit for damages on behalf of Division I college athletics, with Chuba Hubbard as a ...