Final Four serves up usual menu of fun stories —UConn looks to snuff out all of them

UConn forward Alex Karaban and forward Jaylin Stewart exit the interview room ahead of a Final Four college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament, Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. UConn will face Alabama on Saturday.

—Alabama, which plays UConn on Saturday, is in the program’s first Final Four after a complete rebuild of a roster that was supposed to make a deep run last season, then lost nine players to the pros, the transfer portal and graduation. The Wolfpack did the same as the ‘83 squad, staring down a weekend’s worth of must-win games in the ACC Tournament simply to qualify for the NCAAs. That ‘83 squad might have been the first to inscribe “Cinderella” into the March Madness dictionary, though it’s hardly the only team that rode momentum and dreams en route to a championship no one saw coming.

“We had to sell our guys that we can make the run before the tournament,” Oats said. “Now that we made the run, get to the Final Four, I want our guys playing loose and free, but I want them thinking they’ve got a chance to win.” Great as all these stories are, the stark reality is that nothing — other than the airplane — has been making much of a dent in UConn this year. The Huskies are 35-3. They have won their last 10 tournament games, dating to last season, by 13 points or more. They have had at least a 30-point lead in all four March Madness games this year.

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