The UConn Huskies and Purdue Boilermakers will meet Monday night for the national championship. The Huskies are going for their second straight and the Boilermakers their first ever.
At the end of Monday night, either the UConn Huskies or the Purdue Boilermakers will have had their one shining moment and will have left Phoenix as men’s basketball national champions. The madness is nearly over, and UConn is in as good of a position as ever to win back-to-back national championships and become the first team to do so since the Florida Gators accomplished the feat back in 2006 and 2007 behind Joakim Noah and Al Horford.
Conn will send out a lineup that has done this before. Tristen Newton, Donovan Clingan and Alex Karaban were on last year’s national championship team. They helped blow the doors off of San Diego State in the national final and win the program’s first title since 2014. The Huskies beat Alabama 86-72 in the Final Four to get back to the championship game. 'Once you get to this time of year, everything is just you are who your identity is,' UConn coach Dan Hurley said.
The Boilermakers return to the national championship game for the first time since 1969 with someone no team has had since Duke’s Jay Williams – a two-time National Player of the Year. Zach Edey has played at Purdue his entire career – through the good and the bad. He is averaging 24.9 points and 12.2 rebounds per game. He will meet Clingan in the middle of one of the must-see matchups in the tournament. Additionally, Purdue is in the title game for the first time since 1969.
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