The UConn men's
basketball team has now won its last 11 NCAA Tournament games by 13 points or more, an incredible run of dominance dating back to last season's national championship. "We make a hard tournament look easy," head coach Dan Hurley told reporters after Saturday's 86-72 win over Alabama. "Our identity is to be pretty relentless," he added. "We might not break you for 18 minutes, 25 minutes, but at some point if what we're doing at both ends and on the backboard is at a high level, it just becomes hard for the other team to sustain it." Not that beating
Alabama was easy. The game was tied at 56 with 12:41 remaining before UConn rattled off an eight-point run and never looked back from there. It wasn't the same level of game-altering dominance as the Huskies showed against Illinois when they put the contest away with a 30-0 run, but it was a reminder of just how relentless this team can be. Up next is fellow 1-seeded Purdue, led by star center Zach Edey. The Crimson Tide tested UConn more than most teams; now it remains to be seen if Purdue can finally end this run of absolute dominance from the Huskies.