INDIANAPOLIS — Step into the UConn locker room in the aftermath of yet another win for college basketball’s March machine, and you’ll marvel at how overwhelmingly business-like the entire operation is.
In one corner, an easel with a picture of the grand prize: the NCAA championship trophy. Everywhere else, the wheels are already in motion for the next challenge, the final battle. One graduate assistant is collecting jackets, another cutting up film of Arizona. And that came after Dan Hurley, addressing the team, urged his players to “set an NCAA tournament record” for the speed with which they could get out of the stadium, mind assuredly already pivoting to game prep for Monday. There’s joy in victory, but laser focus on the final prize, one that UConn has almost always collected once it advances deep in this tournament.
