{"id":70890,"date":"2026-04-04T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/ncaa-tournament-uconn-top-illinois-to-reach-third-title-game-in-four-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:00:31","slug":"ncaa-tournament-uconn-top-illinois-to-reach-third-title-game-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/ncaa-tournament-uconn-top-illinois-to-reach-third-title-game-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament: UConn top Illinois to reach third title game in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Elite Eight hero Mullins ices Huskies\u2019 lead in final minute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Winner of Arizona-Michigan awaits in championship<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UConn got another critical three-pointer from Braylon Mullins and coach Dan Hurley\u2019s Huskies are heading back to the national title game after beating Illinois 71-62 in the Final Four on Saturday night. They are seeking their third championship in four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Tarris Reed Jr had 17 points and 11 rebounds, while the fabulous freshman Mullins scored 15 for the Huskies (34-5), who rode strong inside play and tough defense to their 19th straight victory in the Sweet 16 or later rounds of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/04\/illinois-uconn-arizona-michigan-march-madness-final-four\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elite Eight hero Mullins ices Huskies\u2019 lead in final minute Winner of Arizona-Michigan awaits in championship UConn got another critical three-pointer from Braylon Mullins and coach Dan Hurley\u2019s Huskies are heading back to the national title game after beating Illinois 71-62 in the Final Four on Saturday night. They are seeking their third championship in &#8230; <a title=\"NCAA Tournament: UConn top Illinois to reach third title game in four years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/ncaa-tournament-uconn-top-illinois-to-reach-third-title-game-in-four-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NCAA Tournament: UConn top Illinois to reach third title game in four years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}