UConn Basketball to play in East Region as No. 2 seed in March Madness
The UConn Basketball team (29-5), still licking its wounds from a 20-point Big East Championship game slashing on Saturday night, will play as the No. 2 seed in the East Region in the NCAA Tournament.
The Huskies placed in the same region as No. 1 overall seed Duke, who ripped through the ACC Tournament this weekend, No. 3 seed Michigan State, No. 4 seed Kansas and, perhaps most pertinently, No. 5 seed St. John’s.
“It’s a pretty tough region,” Dan Hurley said. “St. John’s a No. 5 seed? That’s a heck of a region. Michigan State, who I know probably looked more like a No. 2 until Purdue’s run, ends up as a No. 3. Yeah, it’s a heck of a region.”
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UConn will play No. 15 seed Furman (22-12), who won the Southern Conference Tournament as the No. 6 seed. The Paladins, who infamously picked off Virginia in the first round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament, return to the Big Dance for the first time in three years.
Connecticut will play Friday in Philadelphia against Furman and — if it wins — the winner of No. 7 UCLA (23-11) and No. 10 UCF (21-11) on Sunday.
“The group’s got-to carry itself like a team that’s won 29 games,” Hurley said. “There aren’t many of them in high-major that are going into the NCAA Tournament with 29 wins. I just want these guys to carry themselves like a 29-win team. I felt like we carried ourselves last night like a team that won 19 games.”
Tip times will be available in the coming hours.
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