The UCONN men's basketball team ended their regular season play by dropping a home game to Notre Dame 70-67. Kemba Walker scored 34 points on 11-22 shooting from the field and 10-10 from the charity stripe. No other Husky scored in double figures and the Husky "Big" (size only) of Oriakhi, Smith and Oakwondo scored a combined total of 8 points. Anything else I could say about this game would be a repeat of my last several blogs. Walker had a better game because the Fighing Irish inexplicably stayed in a man to man defense until the last 3 minutes when they finally went into a 2-3 zone and secured the win. Walker is far more effective against a man defense and reallly cannot be stopped one on one.
The Huskies finished the season 21-9 and 9-9 and tied for 9th in the Big East. They fell in the lastest polls to 19th in the Coaches Poll, 21 in the AP poll and 23 in the RPI. They did not have a player other than Walker who averaged in double figures.
They open their Big East Tourney tomorrow at Noon against the hapless DePaul Blue Demons.
"You Heard it here First"
Steve
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