New York-Seven Rumiyat 3 has already come and went before the three-angle that was finally broken Uconnreturn. It was buried from the left corner with 1:36 in the first half-just a few meters after as where the national heroes defending twice in the jaw stopped in the jaw.
Kimmani Young coach coach, whose president praised many of the excellent game plans he collected during the historical range of the program for two years, simply threw his hands in a harmful mix of disgust and disbelief.
How it was St. JohnWhich entered the game 343 in the country for 3 degrees Celsius, suddenly turned into Golden State Warriors? How did a team just have eight names in the match six times throughout the season (only twice since November 22, 2024) managed to explode for 24 points beyond the bow in less than 19 minutes on Sunday afternoon, all except for the burial, Ocun before The end of the first half?
It was not logical, statistically, which is why the strong structures built their playing plan about leaving the cadre of the red storm from the subpar shooting. if RJ Luis Jr. (26.6 %), Kadari Richmond (21.9 %), Harun Scott (29.7 %) and Simon Wilsher (30.8 %) They were happy enough to launch from three points instead of bullying to the corridor, then the opposition coach Dan Hurley was more than happy to allow them. To Hurley and his employees, the strategy was sound sports. Even, of course, it was not.
In a sign that Rick Betino may continue for a longer period in March – or even April – than most people are currently expecting, the red storm has ignited its most complete performance for this season during 89-75 UNCONN pressure, which leaves them in a state of arresting the first school directly The Great East Title since 1985.
A group of dual -numbers scorers has operated the red storm to the first half of 50 points and led to 22 points in the opening minutes of the second, which reduces what many expected to have an affair of the type of Beatdown that Hurley will not be forgotten soon. The fact that St. John married this offensive boom (46.9 % of the shooting) with the defense that was arrested, this should be on the opponents throughout the season (11 pieces, 11 theft, limited Uconn to 39 % of the shooting) as an arc warning to Total basketball In general, only three weeks of selection on Sunday. When the red storm plays like this, it is almost impossible to overcome them.
“You are playing against this Team Which – which Defense and Which – which Evidence and Those Type of wings and [Zuby] Ejiofor [in the post] Hurley said that the pressure they can put on the paint, hangs his thoughts in the air. “If they shot the ball like this from the ocean, it will be a problem for anyone.”
Although Sunday’s eruption against the powerful structures could have been said that the best offensive performance of the Red Storm Depauland Creton and Villanova The Pitino team suggested the direction in the right direction after the Tose in most of the winter.
St. John 26 dug a joint trilogy during this three match, including 11 against Wildcats, after average 4.7 3S per game during its previous six competitions. The red storm ranked first outside the highest 350 percent at the national level of points that were recorded through 3 points less than 24 %, and a group between proverbs Milukiand Mississippi Valley and Texas A & M Corpus Christi.
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But Betino linked the height to the power to the return of the guardian of a health point Devon SmithFast lightning from lightning from Utah Rauly with shoulder and neck injuries since the beginning of the year. In Smith, the red storm has a ball therapist almost not defended for its first step of opposition guards, which always derive courses from defenders of the weak side. And that is when Smith, who led St. John with eight passes against Uconn, performed dishes to open the archers on the ocean. Smith’s five passes in the first half led to 3 throws: three Louis and Lens, one to silence, and the reserve is rarely used LeFteris Liotopoulos.
“Devon Smith is very fast for a saliva,” said Hurley. “It is like the American ninja, as you know? These men, you must choose the poison. It is a dangerous suggestion, and you play numbers. For us this year, with our defense, we cannot take everything away. You must choose something that we want to try to seize it [and we chose to defend the paint]. They went up and made them [from the perimeter]. They did not shoot so much, but they hoped for them, they went up and made them. “
With each consecutive indicator of 3 indicators, more and more electricity toured the sold Mobilization of 19,812, which was strengthening the first sweep of the normal season of the normal season of Uconn since 1999-2000 under the leadership of former coach Mike Garvis.
The energy was radiated through Madison Square Garden for hours shortly from 10 am, when thousands of Uconn fans arrived in New York by train and began mixing with the fans base discovered in the emission of the program, and received tickets at invisible rates for decades.
Such activation produced from believers the red storm this type of support from one side of the aspects that clearly preferred the Beteno team, a huge percentage that would look funny before his arrival two seasons-especially when facing the Connecticut team, which won eight straight in this building, most of which felt games Household is a courtesy for rival congregations.
A newly formed electronic advertising board in the park announced this match as the sale of another Sant John, the latest in a series of it in this magic season with high expectations. Film director Spike Lee broke his seat on the stadiums more than an hour before Tipoff during the early warm -up and shook hands with many Uconn players with admiration between the team’s extensions. former New York Nix Protect Stefon Marburi It was, too, another famous by Beetino’s attractiveness.
Spike Lee was at Madison Square Garden to see the ST. handle John’s Uconn. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
“Let’s go Junis!” And “f — uconn!” He rang around the square in the first verse of the national anthem. “This is our home! This is our stadium! This is our city!” He was the public address broadcaster in the seconds that retreated before TipFF. The Red Storm Students Department, which passed through the cardboard from the prominent alum Mike Ripol, the billionaire supporter who leads the program’s efforts, was launched in a group of “F — Dan Hurley!” During the first defensive Uconn possession – and several times after that.
“I can assure you that we have most fans today,” Betino said. “We did not do last year, but it was about 70-30 this year. [The Huskies] It is a great fans base. I mean, they are like Kentucky, Kentucky East. They travel wonderfully, and they appear, but our fans were there in a big way tonight. “
They were never more appreciated than it was during the St. John’s batch in the second half, which thwarted the only fragment of the momentum created and the margin narrow to nine in 62-53 with 12:36 survival. And that is when Betino called on the deadline and began to remind his team about the number of nearby games that he actually survived this season, which includes eight victories of two numbers.
His message was boycotted by Ejiofor, the huge center that achieved 18 points and nine rebound balls-while drawing seven errors-to save the morning when the Pitino team cools out of 3 points in the second half. “We are not wilting,” Eaghevor told his teammates, “We are not wilting,” a message that his coach had approved him with sincerity, and soon pushed the red storm back to 20 minutes in the minutes.
In the end, Uconn walked with a phrase outside the field after the final whistle, its season again at a crossroads. The Pitino team sent them to the train station early with fire on a white circumference.
“We want this The Great East Biteno said: “It is not limited to the crown, not only for the players, but for the fans who have returned as I did not expect. So we are very excited about our presence in hunting,” Biteno said.
Michael Cohen covers university football and basketball for Fox SPORTS with a focus on Big Ten. Follow it on Twitter @michael_cohen13.
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