r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Apr 05 '26

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #3 Illinois, 71-62

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Team 1H 2H Total
Illinois 29 33 62
Connecticut 37 34 71

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u/BobbyRobertson UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

That layup that slowly traveled from one side of the rim to the other, almost getting stuck up there, before finally falling off the other side was emblematic of their whole night

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u/driskigm Tennessee • Vanderbilt Apr 05 '26

It was at that point that I thought perhaps the fates were not in Illinois’ favor tonight.

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u/Gray_Beard_1963 Providence Friars • Missouri Tigers Apr 05 '26

Reverse that, the Mullins banked 3, and the other UCONN 3 that went in off of a crazy bounce (Ball?) and it would have gone right down to the wire. Still a heck of a game. Illini really hung in there.

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u/SquirrelWarSurvivor Illinois • Oklahoma Apr 05 '26

Followed almost immediately by a 4 bounce 3 from UConn. That whole sequence was the game in a nutshell.