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Article: Georgia Tech no match for UConn's willful ways.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 5, 2004
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Byline: Gil LeBreton
SAN ANTONIO, Texas _ After two classics Saturday . . . a clunker.
A mismatch. A rout. A one-sided, rambling wreck of an NCAA Final Four finale that truly stamped the Connecticut Huskies as the best college basketball team in the land.
Only a sudden, late hailstorm of Georgia Tech 3-point field goals made the final score _ a relatively merciful 82-73 _ seem close. Otherwise, with UConn's Emeka Okafor soaring and swatting and dominating inside, the Huskies marked their territory thoroughly in the first half, and that was that.
How do you invite 65 teams to a tournament, dribble and dunk for three weeks, trim the ...