ARLINGTON, Texas – In another time, in a different sport, what Connecticut used Monday night to defeat Kentucky in NCAA basketball championship game inside the AT&T Stadium the Dallas Cowboys also call home was known as “Doomsday Defense.”
And the Huskies certainly turned in some very big D in Big D to top the Wildcats 60-54 and claim their fourth NCAA crown in 15 years.
As losing coach John Calipari said late Monday night, “Kevin [Ollie, UConn’s coach] had them playing the perfect way for them to win. They really defend.”
But as good as UConn was in the 2014 NCAA tourney, are Ollie’s Hungry Huskies — as Final Four MOP Shabazz Napier labeled the champs — good enough to repeat, or even to return to college basketball’s final weekend?
Or should we expect an entirely different Final Four for 2015, one free of UConn, UK, Florida and Wisconsin?