Sunday, April 3, 2011

UConn nips Kentucky to advance to national championship game

HOUSTON -- When the options boil down to winning or heading home, nobody's better than Kemba and Connecticut.  Kemba Walker scored 18 points Saturday night to lift UConn to its 10th straight victory since finishing off a .500 Big East regular season, a 56-55 win over cold-shooting Kentucky that moved the Huskies a victory away from their third, and most improbable, NCAA title.
Walker, a quick-handed junior from the Bronx, added seven assists and six rebounds to help the young UConn team (31-9) extend a winning streak that started with a five-wins-in-five-nights leg-drainer at the conference tournament and now includes five more at the tournament that really counts.
The third-seeded Huskies -- lowest seed left in a tournament that has been as unpredictable as any in history -- will face No. 8 Butler, a 70-62 winner over 11th-seeded VCU in the first semifinal, on Monday.

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