San Diego State will try to bring the city its biggest sports championship Monday evening against a Connecticut team that has won its five NCAA tournament games by an average of 20 points.
"We have to control them in transition," Aztecs coach Brian Dutcher said."They're as good a 3-point shooting team in transition that we've played all year. We have to take away transition 3s. We have to do a good job in the low post on Sanogo. He's strong and tough.Sanogo, a 6-foot, 9-inch forward from Mali, leads the Huskies in scoring, averaging 17.2 points per game, and rebounding, averaging 7.4 per game. The 6-foot-5-inch Hawkins is second in scoring, averaging 16.
"UConn's a really good team," San Diego State guard Matt Bradley said."We've been seeing what they've been doing throughout the tournament. The wins they've been having are really impressive. But I think we match up with them really well. We know we've just got to stick to our game plan. We're our own biggest competitors. If we just play our own game, I think we should come out with the win.
The Aztecs are the 17th overall seed and fifth seed in the South Region. They defeated College of Charleston, the 47th overall seed, 63- 57, in the first round; Furman, the 53th overall seed, 75-52, in the second round; Alabama, the No. 1 overall seed, 71-64, in the Sweet 16, Creighton, the 22nd overall seed, 57-56, in the Elite 8; and Florida Atlantic, 72-71, in the Final Four.
"Potentially, we felt we were going to win it all. Especially for the guys -- KJ , Malachi , Yanni , all the seniors, guys who were going to have big games in the tournament to help their future. It was devastating.
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