{"id":1768,"date":"2011-04-06T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2011-04-06T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T18:05:29","slug":"uconn-defense-stifles-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/uconn-defense-stifles-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Defense Stifles Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uconn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1769\" title=\"uconn\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uconn-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uconn-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uconn-342x227.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uconn.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Connecticut Huskies used a suffocating 2nd-half defense to capture  their third overall national championship on Monday night, spoiling  Butler&#8217;s unexpected return to the title game by a 53-41 score. The  victory made UConn coach Jim Calhoun the oldest (68) head coach to guide  a national champion.<\/p>\n<p>UConn&#8217;s 11th-straight win climaxed an unreal late-season run which began  with a grueling 5-games-in-five-days Big East tournament and ended with  the Huskies rebounding from a 22-19 halftime deficit by holding Butler  to an almost impossible-to-believe 18.8 FG percentage, by far an NCAA  finals record. Tournament Most Outstanding Player Kemba Walker led UConn  with 16 points and 9 rebounds while unsung big man Alex Oriakhi racked  up a double-double (11 pts. 11 rebs.) as well as adding 4 blocks to the  Huskies 10 total for the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs of Butler were the sentimental favorite of most fans, but  they were unable to find holes in the UConn defense and shot just 9 for  33 from the three-point arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Huskies used a suffocating 2nd-half defense to capture their third overall national championship on Monday night, spoiling Butler&#8217;s unexpected return to the title game by a 53-41 score. The victory made UConn coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,16],"tags":[970,393,845,846],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-champions","tag-college-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-uconn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}