HOUSTON — In recent years, there’s been a five-letter term — default common parlance — to label fun/obviously dominant teams. Wagon.
But UConn has reached the point where it transcends the label.
Wagon is a laughable undersell. This Herculean Huskies squad is a damn locomotive barreling down the tracks and has one more game remaining before it can be put on the shelf with some of the best NCAA Tournament teams of all time. There’s just one more foe to feast upon in order for it to pull off one of the most dominant struts to a national title this sport has ever seen.
Saturday was more of the same supremacy: another double-digit win in this tournament, a 72-59 dismissal of No. 5 Miami.
“One more! One more!” UConn coach Dan Hurley shouted as he slapped high fives with the outstretched arms of UConn fans, who were leaning over the railings as Hurley jogged into the tunnel.
In this perfunctory punking, we saw the latest all-too-easy victory vs. an overmatched nonconference opponent. Get this: No. 4 seed UConn is 16-0 against non-Big East teams this season and has won all of those games by double digits, averaging a 24.7 margin in its favor.
“We’re able to kind of body-blow our opponent,” Hurley said. “It has a cumulative effect. It’s been able to break opponents. And we are a unique team in terms of our style of play, which hurts you in conference play because people are a lot more familiar. They see you twice. The games are much more physical. When people see us for the first time with the two centers and all the shooting, there’s no real players like Andre Jackson in the country, he’s so hard to prepare for. So we’re a unique team.”
Connecticut captured its 30th win in convincing fashion against the Hurricanes, sucking the drama out of the atmosphere inside NRG Stadium. Not so long removed from San Diego State’s buzzer-beating kapow to kick 35-win FAU out of the bracket, Dan Hurley’s…
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