UConn 75-60 Purdue (Apr 8, 2024) Final Score - ESPN (2024)

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Coach Dan Hurley's Huskies delivered the latest of their suffocating hoops performances Monday night, smothering Purdue for a 75-60 victory to become the first team since 2007 to capture back-to-back national championships.

UConn concludes a dominant run to its 2nd straight NCAA title, beating Zach Edey and Purdue 75-60.

The Huskies are 6.5-point favorites in the latest Purdue vs. UConn odds from SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is 143.5. Before making any UConn vs. Purdue picks, you need to see the college basketball predictions and betting advice from the SportsLine Projection Model.

Tristen Newton scores 20 with 7 assists for UConn, which won all its NCAA Tournament games by at least 14 points. Stephon Castle has 15 points. Cam Spencer has 11 points and 8 rebounds. Donovan Clingan has 11 points.

No. 1-ranked UConn stopped Purdue's quest for its first National Championship with a 75-60 setback to the Huskies, in front of 74,423 fans – the third-largest championship game crowd ever.

The floodgates opened for UConn in the second half, and the Huskies ultimately beat Purdue 75-60, winning their second straight men's national championship and becoming the first team to go back-to-back since Florida in 2006 and 2007.

Zach Edey, the two-time NCAA player of the year at Purdue, has done what was expected and officially put his name in for the 2024 NBA Draft. Edey confirmed this to Jonathan Givony of ESPN.

University of Connecticut's ranking in the 2024 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #58. Its in-state tuition and fees are $20,366; out-of-state tuition and fees are $43,034.

🏆 UConn surges past Purdue for back-to-back titles

The latest victim was Purdue and Naismith winner Zach Edey, as UConn won the battle of No. 1 seeds, 75-60, Monday night in Glendale, Arizona.

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UConn sophom*ore Donovan Clingan is already the next-best center in college basketball to Edey and is considered the better pro prospect of the two of them. The clash between UConn and Purdue is the rare national title game that actually pits college basketball's two best teams.

UConn's Donovan Clingan and Purdue's Zach Edey, the top two bigs in college, faced off in a game where Edey had the better individual performance but Clingan's Huskies won the contest to secure back-to-back national championships. Both centers helped their draft stock on college basketball's biggest stage.

UConn was efficient on offense but won this with defense. The Huskies (37-3) limited the country's second-best 3-point shooting team to a mere seven shots behind the arc and only a single make, while happily allowing 7-foot-4 AP Player of the Year Zach Edey to go for 37 points on 25 shot attempts.

University of Connecticut is ranked #58 out of 439 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.

Edey set a Big Ten record with 12 career Big Ten Player of the Week accolades. Edey's 436 free throw attempts were tied for the second most in NCAA history and the most since Furman's Frank Selvy had 444 attempts in 1954.

What TV channel is the UConn vs. Purdue national championship game on? UConn-Purdue will air on TBS, TNT and truTV.

The University of Connecticut Huskies have won the men's college basketball NCAA National Championship. The Connecticut Huskies beat the Purdue Boilermakers 75-60 Monday night in Glendale, Arizona.

Purdue has never won the national championship and is appearing in its first title game since 1969. Purdue coach Matt Painter called reprising the Virginia role from 2019 "the right narrative" for his team, and he recounted UVA's Tony Bennett reaching out after Purdue lost to No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson last year.