HOUSTON — Nobody was guarding the University of Connecticut’s best player. So Adama Sanogo spun the ball to get his fingers just right, set his feet behind the 3-point line and splashed in the shot. Then, less than a minute later, he did it again.
It was as much basketball clinic as highlight video — and all of it perfectly fitting for the Huskies, who are methodically steamrolling through a March Madness bracket that has been a free-for-all fight everywhere else.
UConn doled out another drama-free beatdown Saturday, getting 21 points and 10 rebounds from Sanogo to dispatch Miami 72-59 and move one win from the school’s fifth NCAA tournament title.
“There’s a lot of teams that want to play Monday,” Sanogo said of the championship matchup, set for 9:20 p.m. Eastern on CBS. “It means a lot to us.”
Jordan Hawkins shook off a stomach illness to score 13 points for the Huskies, who came into this most unexpected Final Four as the only team with any experience on college basketball’s final weekend and with the best seeding of the four teams in Houston — at No. 4.