Is UConn now a college basketball blue blood after fifth national championship?
New York TimesHOUSTON — As the UConn players exited the makeshift stage, national championship trophy properly awarded and commemorative T-shirts and hats perfectly adorned, a man stood at the bottom of the staircase, waiting to greet each and every one of them with a high five and a hug. Now Walker, wearing a Huskies baseball shirt, red kicks and Husky diamond pendant as big as a thumb, was happily welcoming the newest members to UConn’s title-winning fraternity. Connecticut’s 76-59 win over San Diego State secured the Huskies’ fifth men’s national title since 1999, a run of success unmatched by any other team in the country. UConn’s five-title bounty is more than card-carrying aristocracy members North Carolina and Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and UCLA and Indiana have in the same time period. That last one threatened to unravel the whole empire — “the basketball kingdom led by King Calhoun’’ according to Allen.
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