NEW YORK (AP) Donovan Clingan had 22 factors and a career-best 16 rebounds, Jaylin Stewart gave No. 2 UConn an surprising enhance with three second-half 3-pointers throughout a decisive surge and the Huskies beat No. 10 Marquette 73-57 on Saturday night time to win the Huge East Event for the primary time since rejoining the league 4 years in the past.
Event MVP Tristen Newton added 13 factors and 10 assists because the top-seeded Huskies gained their eighth title, matching Georgetown for essentially the most in convention historical past. It was their first since 2011, when Kemba Walker led UConn to 5 wins in 5 days at Madison Sq. Backyard – after which a nationwide title.
Stewart, a freshman who was averaging 2.4 factors off the bench, scored 9 in about 4 minutes as UConn (31-3) pulled away from a gritty Marquette workforce enjoying with out injured star Tyler Kolek (indirect) for a sixth straight sport.
Kam Jones led the third-seeded Golden Eagles (25-9), the defending match champions, with 13 factors, eight rebounds and 4 assists.
On an evening when the Huskies struggled from the perimeter, they relied on the 7-foot-2 Clingan inside. He was 7 for 12 from the sector and, as the ultimate seconds ticked off the clock, the sophomore huge man waved on hyped-up Huskies followers who packed the Midtown Manhattan area they wish to name “Storrs South.”
Two years after UConn’s final Huge East Event title the convention broke up and the Huskies went with the soccer colleges to type the American Athletic Convention, the place they gained one other nationwide championship in 2014 – after which fell off.
UConn returned to the Huge East in 2020-21 and to nationwide prominence. The Huskies gained their fifth NCAA title final 12 months, however the convention match championship had eluded coach Dan Hurley’s workforce. UConn hadn’t even reached the Saturday night time ultimate in its first three seasons again within the Huge East.
For the New Jersey native and former Seton Corridor guard Hurley, bringing that prize again to UConn was a giant deal.
Hurley rattled off all his workforce has completed within the final 12 months as he accepted the trophy Saturday night time and informed the group: “However we ain’t performed but.”
UConn improved to 8-3 in Huge East finals, and 7-0 at MSG this season.
As traditional, UConn followers packed The Backyard and for the second straight night time Marquette confronted a road-game atmosphere. The Golden Eagles overcame a raucous Windfall crowd in a rugged semifinal Friday night time.
They could not do it once more in opposition to the mighty Huskies.
“Immediately was tough for positive, however now we have an awesome workforce, an awesome seed and that is all you want is an opportunity within the match,” mentioned David Joplin, who had 12 factors and 6 rebounds within the Golden Eagles’ lowest-scoring sport of the season by 12 factors.
Two of the nation’s finest groups performed one of many ugliest 9 minutes of basketball possible to start out the sport.
On the second media timeout, the rating was tied at 4 and the Golden Eagles and Huskies had been a mixed 3 for 22 from the ground. The protection was aggressive and bodily, however it was additionally exhausting to maintain observe of simply what number of point-blank photographs rolled off the rim.
Issues picked up from there, and Newton swished a 3-pointer with three seconds left within the first half to offer UConn a 26-24 lead on the break.
The photographs began falling within the second half for each groups and UConn started asserting itself with about 10 minutes left, led by Stewart.
The Huskies went on a 19-5 run and led 60-44 with 5:52 remaining when Hassan Diarra made a nook 3 with 5:54 left in regulation. Stewart keyed the surge together with his long-range taking pictures. He got here into the sport simply 6 for 30 from 3-point vary on the season.
MISSING
Kolek, final season’s Huge East participant of the 12 months and match MVP, was relegated to the tip of the bench, carrying a grey T-shirt and black joggers and training up his teammates throughout timeouts.
Marquette coach Shaka Sensible has mentioned all week the aim was to have Kolek able to go for the NCAA Event.
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The Huskies, who gained the NCAA Event as a No. 4 seed final 12 months, could possibly be the No. 1 total seed this 12 months after each Houston and Purdue misplaced of their convention tournaments Saturday. The Huskies’ street to the Closing 4 is all however sure to start out again in New York Metropolis at Barclays Middle in Brooklyn subsequent weekend.
“Nobody’s had a greater season than now we have,” Hurley mentioned.
The Golden Eagles will land within the match seemingly as a No. 2 or No. 3 seed.
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