As it happened: Purdue 60–75 UConnHuskies win second successive championshipZach Edey’s heroics not enough for Boilermakers
UConn delivered the latest of their suffocating basketball beatdowns on Monday night, smothering Purdue for a 75-60 victory to become the first men’s team since 2007 to capture back-to-back national championships.
Tristen Newton scored 20 points for the Huskies, who won their 12th straight March Madness game – not a single one of them decided by fewer than 13 points.
UConn were efficient on offense but won this game with defense. The Huskies (37-3) limited the country’s second-best three-point shooting team to a mere seven shots behind the arc – Purdue only made one – while happily allowing 7ft 4in AP Player of the Year Zach Edey to go for 37 points on 25 shot attempts.
UConn joined the 2006-07 Florida Gators and the 1991-92 Duke Blue Devils as just the third men’s team to repeat since John Wooden’s UCLA dynasty of the 1960s and 70s.