UConn, Final Four and Braylon Mullins
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WASHINGTON — Braylon Mullins retrieved a loose ball near midcourt and suddenly, improbably, UConn had a chance to win. As the frantic final seconds unfolded, Dan Hurley figured a timeout would do little good.
Mullins, after the Huskies fell down by 19 points early, drilled a wild logo 3-pointer with just 0.4 seconds left on the clock to push UConn to a 73-72 win. That came after a brutal turnover from Cayden Boozer, too. All Boozer had to do was hang onto the ball, and it would have been Duke that was headed to Indianapolis instead.
The Huskies didn't need any heroics this time as Tarris Reed's17 points leads No. 2 seed UConn to a 71-62 win vs. Illinois
Dan Hurley and the UConn Huskies are heading into their Final Four game against Illinois, but it's not all roses.
The UConn Huskies held off the Illinois Fighting Illini to make their third national title appearance in the past four years.
The victory that earned the Huskies’ eighth trip to the Final Four might go down as the most remarkable in program history.
Back when he first came to town – back when some of his Big East peers derided his school as the Northwestern of the conference and questioned why Dave Gavitt even let them in – Jim Calhoun tried to solve UConn’s identity crisis one misinformed person at a time.