consistent with KenPom, that’s the bottom thus far in a convention match sport and is the 33rd-lowest in any sport of the 6,104 contests which have been performed this season. They had an 85.five percentage risk to win pregame.
TV: FOX
Radio: UConn Sports Network
Odds: UConn -fifty three.five, over/beneathneath 139.five
Location: Madison Square Garden, New York
KenPom Predicted Score: UConn 73, Creighton 72 (fifty three percentage win probability)
Series History
UConn and Creighton will face off in midtown Manhattan for the second one time and the primary changed into withinside the genuine identical scenario, with a three-seed UConn squad looking to upend a 2-seed Creighton group in a semifinal, doing so returned in 2021.
It changed into the primary of 3 consecutive semifinal losses via way of means of a complete of 8 factors after the Huskies’ go back to the Big East.
The software has an 11-6 report in Big East Tournament semifinals, courting returned to the primary occasion on the now-Amica Mutual Pavilion.
The Bluejays has gotten the higher of UConn, with an 8-three report all-time. Each sport has come for the reason that have become convention-associates in 2020-21. The street group gained every normal season meeting.
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Samson Johnson positioned UConn up 4 factors with the primary buckets of the game. From then, Villanova led for maximum of the relaxation of the half, with the gain getting as excessive as nine.
UConn had six turnovers on 29 possessions and struggled with fouls, because the Wildcats had sixteen unfastened throws withinside the first half. When blended with a 4-for-7 overall performance from past the arc, the 6-seed changed into on pinnacle on the half.
It took till 9:09 left for the Huskies to regain the lead and did so for accurate simply over a minute later. The pictures stopped falling for Villanova, making 3 area dreams over the very last sixteen mins of the contest, the final of which went in with 5:fifty three to go. The Wildcats shot 3-for-14 on 3-guidelines and simply 2-for-10 on 2-guidelines.
Creighton’s offense isn’t as incredibly ranked as Villanova’s and is a chunk higher of a matchup for UConn’s defense, however if Creighton makes the ones varieties of pictures early, the Huskies is probably in problem and with a pinnacle-50 defense, it’ll be tougher for Dan Hurley
