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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Top-seeded UConn advances to championship game after beating No. 4 Alabama, 86-72  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]UConn vs. Alabama: How to watch the men’s NCAA tournament Final Four game tonight  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Heartbroken UConn left to lament controversy, setbacks despite exceeding outsized expectations  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Women’s NCAA tournament – UConn survives low-scoring affair vs. Duke  Yahoo Sports Source link

MINNEAPOLIS — It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Not in November when they slid by South Florida only to be crushed by South Carolina in the Battle 4 Atlantis. Not seven weeks ago when Villanova snapped their 169-game conference winning streak. Not even two weeks ago in the second round against UCF when they looked destined to watch the proceedings from their couches in Connecticut. They should have been knocked out multiple times already in a tournament that showcased parity early, but… Source link

Connecticut is on to its 14th consecutive Final Four after a double-overtime thriller. The No. 2-seeded Huskies downed No. 1 seed NC State, 91-87, in what was essentially a home game in the Bridgeport region on Monday. It was the first double-overtime game in the Elite Eight or later in women’s tournament history. Paige Bueckers came up clutch in the first overtime period and hit the opening 3-pointer 20 seconds into the second OT to put the Huskies up 80-77. UConn led by as many as five, the… Source link

The Paige Bueckers-less UConn Huskies may be in trouble. No. 3 UConn fell to Georgia Tech 57-44 on Thursday night in their first game without Bueckers, who suffered a tibial plateau fracture and is expected to miss six-to-eight weeks. That loss snapped a number of records and streaks for UConn. Georgia Tech is now the first team to hold UConn to less than 45 points in a single game since 2006, and the Yellow Jackets are the first unranked team to beat the Huskies since 2012 — which snapped a… Source link

The Guardian Trump and Carlson lead backlash as MLB pulls All-Star Game from Georgia Former president calls on fans to ‘boycott baseball’Obama lauds MLB ‘for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights’ Mike Pence laughs as Donald Trump holds a baseball bat at the White House in 2017. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson led rightwing backlash after Major League Baseball said it would not play its All-Star game in Georgia because of a new law that restricts… Source link