{"id":141,"date":"2014-04-07T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:42:44","slug":"uconn-defeats-kentucky-to-win-ncaa-mens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/2014\/04\/07\/uconn-defeats-kentucky-to-win-ncaa-mens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn defeats Kentucky to win NCAA Men&#8217;s Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-148\" alt=\"uconn\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/04\/uconn-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Connecticut Huskies have won the 2014 NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship defeating the Kentucky Wildcats by a 60-54 score at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, TX.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut entered Monday&#8217;s game 31-8 while Kentucky was 29-10. Few could have envisioned a No. 7 in Connecticut facing off against a No. 8 in Kentucky when the Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament but that is exactly what happened on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/product_ad_widget\/paw.php?pawid=85955&amp;pw=157431&amp;output=js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When it was all said and done it was UConn winning their fifth championship, their last came in 2011. The championship becomes the first under Kevin Ollie.<\/p>\n<p>UConn jumped out to an early lead and by midway though the first half held a double digit lead. Before long it was a 15 point lead but then Kentucky begin to pick off points as the pace slowed going on a 12-3 run, getting it down to a six point lead with two minutes left in the half.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime it was UConn nursing a four point lead 35-31 over Kentucky. With less than eight minutes in the second half Kentucky cut the lead to one point for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>With less than a minute left it was UConn holding a four point lead.\u00a0UConn was able to hit to key free throws with just under third seconds left while Kentucky was unable to land a three and ended up losing 60-54.<\/p>\n<p>Shabazz Napier led the way with 22 points for the Huskies to earn honors as the Final Four Most Outstanding Player. After the game he described them as the &#8220;hungry huskies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Huskies have won the 2014 NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship defeating the Kentucky Wildcats by a 60-54 score at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, TX. Connecticut entered Monday&#8217;s game 31-8 while Kentucky was 29-10. Few could have envisioned a No. 7 in Connecticut facing off against a No. 8 in Kentucky when the Men&#8217;s Basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[31,13,5],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaabb-news","8":"category-ncaabb-top-story","9":"tag-conneticut","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-ncaabb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}