Kansas City, Mo. Milos Ozan Pour at 25 points, Emmanuel Sharp He added 17 and the second from Houston, the trademark defense appeared in the last minute, to hold on to be over 72-64 Arizona In the Big 12 Tournament game on Saturday night.
Play without injury to a big man Joys RobertsAl-Koujer got 64-62 ahead of the 3-minute weights index with a go, then they suffocated Wildcats (22-12) below the expansion to avenge a loss in the state of Iowa in the title of the title of last year.
Houston moved to the Big 12 title in the normal season, and won 19 games in the expanded league. It was dominant in three games in Kansas City, where he was easily overcome by Colorado and No. 17 before returning to Arizona hot to keep the cup.
Houston (30-4) also won its fourth consecutive season, 30 wins, as it linked the second fastest series in the history of the first section, according to Espn Research. Gonzaga has published five consecutive seasons 30 wins from 2016-21.
Calib love He scored 19 points for Wildcats. Gadin Bradley It was 14 points and KJ Lewis End with 11.
Wildcats coach Tommy Lloyd was settled after his victory in the quarter -finals over Texas Tech No. 9 when he suggested that the tendency to confront the patterns: the high -speed Arizona crime against the dominant defense in Houston.
Lloyd briefly said: “We are not so bad in defense.”
It turns out that Wildcats is very good.
They polished Houston guards and ignored wherever they went on the ground, twice carrying the chopped without a point for 5 minutes in the first half. The score was 33-28 in the cabinet room that felt a little larger.
However, there is a reason that Houston is the first rank at the national level in defensive efficiency.
The chopped was still falling between 40-37 when they slipped on wild cats, and they turned the defense into a crime and outperformed them 19-6 during the next five minutes. By the time Ozan scored in a bucket with 11:40 to go, Houston presented a difference of 56-46 – the largest game for either team at that point.
Arizona resisted wonderfully to take 62-61 progress, only for the unavoidable curtain to restore subsequent seconds at a later time, when Ozan dropped his 3 index.
The result was the third conference championship in five years after the husband won the American Sports Conference.
Roberts, who seized his right ankle in the quarter -finals, took pre -warming without walking shoes he was wearing a day ago. But he returned back from the bench in the hope of playing in the NCAA championship.
Houston certainly closed the first selection in the selection on Sunday and may start the NCAA championship in Whitchta, Kansas. Most of them are expected to land Wildcats in the 4th seeded after their race to the conference championship game.
The Associated Press information was used in this report.
